A Systematic Approach of a Flying Ad-hoc Network for Smart Cities

Introduction

Smart cities can maximise their resource use and offer efficient and effective services to their citizen's thanks to recent developments and breakthroughs in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). One of these technologies is the Flying Ad-hoc Network (FANET), which has the potential to cover large geographic regions utilizing several Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and enable numerous applications for future smart cities that will positively affect society. Intelligent transportation, product distribution, demographic and environmental monitoring, on-board health planning, civic security, object identification, smart agriculture, and more uses are possible with FANET. (Bekmezci et al., 2013). FANET applications, among others, can deliver cost-effective services to help future smart cities achieve their goals. However, implementing FANET technology in smart cities is a very difficult task due to several issues. Furthermore, FANET-enabled smart cities will likely become a significant component of human existence, and UAVs will significantly increase real-time information distribution. They are the best option because UAVs have the most operational capacity in any worst-case damage scenario (Siddiqi et al., 2021).

In this sub-section, the paper starts with a theoretical background of smart city and FANET technology in Section 2. Further, Section 3 discusses some potential applications of FANET for smart cities. Sequentially, Section 4 presents the issues and challenges of FANET for smart cities. Section 5 discusses some key technologies with the fusion of FANET in future smart cities. Finally, Section 6 separately covers the conclusion.