Smart City – simplifies the management of urban processes and increases the comfort of life. 
It has been the subject of discussion for many years. In Ukraine, strategic approaches to the transition to the smart status of million-plus cities are increasingly being used.
Smart City is a holistic concept of smart integration of information and communication technologies for monitoring and managing urban infrastructure.
The goal of a smart city is to optimize the costs of a number of highly exploited resources, improve people’s lives by increasing the level of comfort and safety, the quality and efficiency of service in various areas.
LoRa technology offers technical and economic benefits for smart city applications. LoRa and LoRaWAN provide intelligent monitoring and control infrastructure. This allows us to efficiently collect and analyze data from thousands of networked devices and systems. With this information, for example, they should be able to better decide which services are right for their plans.
For densely populated metropolitan areas, it is beneficial that LoRaWAN signals penetrate relatively deep into urban areas. Smart city technologies are changing the image of cities, authorities and citizens interact.
With a LoRa network, sensors can be integrated into any street lighting system that controls lighting and collects usage data. And LoRa technology collects data on all nearby street lights through LoRaWAN. The gateway then sends the information to a public or private cloud server, which analyzes the data, ultimately manages the lighting, and automatically generates warnings for power outages and other faults when needed. Alerts for burnt out lamps and other faults as needed.
Users can even add over-the-air (OTA) updates to switch between public and private networks as needed. The bi-directional communication of LoRa technology makes this possible. The range of applications of LoRa technology in smart cities is extremely diverse and is not limited to lighting. The technology can be used in different ways:
- Parking;
- Traffic flow;
- Service of traffic lights;
- Preventive maintenance;
- Recycling;
- Noise and air pollution.
