UAVs for smart cities: Opportunities and challenges

Farhan Mohammed, Ahmed Idries, Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Imad Jawhar

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    Abstract

    This paper discusses the applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in smart cities, their opportunities and their challenges. UAVs have a wide range of applications in many fields like environmental hazards monitoring, traffic management and pollution monitoring, all of which contributes greatly to the development of any smart city. These opportunities among several others are discussed in this paper. Several challenges and issues such as safety, privacy and ethical uses are of great concern and are also provided in this paper.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings
    PublisherIEEE Computer Society
    Pages267-273
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Print)9781479923762
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    Event2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Orlando, FL, United States
    Duration: May 27 2014May 30 2014

    Publication series

    Name2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings

    Other

    Other2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityOrlando, FL
    Period5/27/145/30/14

    Keywords

    • UAVs
    • challenges
    • environmental hazards monitoring
    • opportunities
    • smart cities

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Aerospace Engineering

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