Big Data Meaning in the Architecture of IoT for Smart Cities

Internet of Things (IoT) is the technology that allows making interconnections between devices and internet; its applications have been developed to give answer to society's needs and requirements. In the last years, communities have gotten interested into incorporate this and some other Information Technologies to the cities, to make of those Smart Cities. Currently, applications just reply to particular necessities but general structures of IoT are being developed to improve the Smart City functioning and there is where Big Data (Classification and analysis of information) takes an important place inside the architecture, because this area manages the complexity, quantity and the variety of data for the right working of systems and the acquisition of classified useful data in real time. This paper aims to explain the importance of Big Data as Information Technology (IT) to organize and direct correctly the information in complex systems as the involved in the development of the Smart Cities.