Advancing e-Government Using Internet of Things

Internet of Things (IoT) is the most revolutionary and attractive technology of today without which it is nearly impossible to imagine the future due to its applications in numerous fields such as smart cities, home automation, wearable devices, etc., and its ability to make human life much easier via integration with other technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. In this paper, we have conducted a survey on the ways IoT can be utilized in various sectors of an e-Government such as pollution control, health care and voting. We have also described a six-layer IoT-based model for smart agriculture and studied the benefits of using unmanned aerial vehicles in smart agriculture. This paper further introduces the concept of a "smart" government and its realization via integration of fog computing with IoT leading to a Fog-of-Things (FoT) architecture.