Packet Tracer - Explore The Smart City
Packet Tracer - Explore The Smart City
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Objectives
Explore a Smart City
Analyze The Usage of Cloud Computing in the Smart City
Background / Scenario
In this activity, you will explore the smart city example. The idea of a smart city is based on the premise of a
city which takes advantage of software to monitor and analyze various events and make decisions to improve
the lives of its residents.
The smart city in this example has been broken down into clusters. Depending on the application, some data
is best processed and monitored from a remote location. The Smart City Offices offer capabilities that allow a
city administrator to monitor various events throughout the city.
Required Resource
Packet Tracer 7.1 or newer.
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Packet Tracer Activity – Explore the Smart City
Step 1: Interacting With the Smart Parking Cluster (City Offices Personnel)
The devices in the smart parking cluster can be monitored and controlled remotely through any computer in
the city offices cluster. Because all smart parking cluster devices connect to the City IoT Server which hosts
a web-based interface, tablets, smartphones, laptops or desktop computers can be used to interact with the
smart devices.
a. Click the City IT Laptop in the City Offices cluster.
b. Navigate to Desktop > Web Browser.
c. In the URL address bar, type in 195.0.0.2. This is the IP address of the City IoT Server.
d. Use Park/Park as the username and password to log into the City IoT Server.
Note: You may have to a few minutes until the all the network devices become online and the parking
meters can reach to IoT registration server.
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e. What is displayed?
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f. The parking meters register themselves with the server and send status updates periodically. Click the P-
Space-1 meter to expand it.
What is the value displayed?
0
g. Without closing the City IT Laptop window, go back to the smart parking cluster and click and drag the
red car onto parking spot 1. Parking spot 1 is the leftmost parking spot in the cluster.
h. Go back to the City IT Laptop window and look for P-Space-1 (expand it if necessary).
What is the value displayed now?
20
The parking spaces sensors are PT metal sensors configured to respond to metal objects (the cars in this
case) when placed close enough.
e. Without closing the Smartphone’s window, drag the green car onto Parking Spot 5. Parking Spot 5 is
the rightmost parking spot in the smart parking cluster.
f. Go back to smartphone’s window (the web browser should still be displaying the page loaded from the
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MCU parking server). What do you see after the page loads?
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The ambulance light goes red and the light on the right goes green.
d. The paramedics vehicle sends a message to the MCU controlling the traffic lights and requests passage.
The MCU recognizes the paramedics as a legitimate emergency vehicle and grants it passage by turning
the light green. The MCU also turns related lights red to ensure safe passage. When the emergency
vehicle has passed safely, the MCU returns system back to its normal operation.
e. Take some time to analyze the code running in the MCU in the ambulance by navigating the
Programming tab.
Note: You may need to click the Advanced button at the bottom of the devices’ windows before the
Programming tab can be displayed.
Part 4: Reflection
When sensors, software and servers are interconnected, it is possible to gather data and monitor events. This
allows decisions to be made based on event driven data. The k ey point of this example is to show that
connected things can monitor and act if they are:
Capable of executing programs.
Connected to sensors or actuators.
Connected to other devices via the network.
A regular chair for example, can be prepared to track and record the weight and number of every person who
sits on it.
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