In recent years, drones have been integrated with the Internet of Things to offer a variety of exciting new applications. Here is a detailed exploration of adapting and implementing Internet of Drones technologies in real-world applications, emphasizing solutions to architectural challenges and providing a clear overview of standardization and regulation, implementation plans, and privacy concerns. The book discusses the architectures and protocols for drone communications, implementing and deploying of 5G-drone setups, security issues, deep learning techniques applied on real-time footage, and more. It also explores some of the varied applications, such as for monitoring and analysis of troposphere pollutants, providing services and communications in smart cities (such as for weather forecasting, communications, transport, safety and protection), for disaster relief management, for agricultural crop monitoring, and more.

This book constitutes selected and revised papers of the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Computing for Smart City, AIS2C2 2021, held in Greater Noida, India, in March 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 17 full papers and 3 short papers included were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 204 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: sentimental and emotions analysis for smart cities; smart specialization strategies for smart cities; security in smart cities; advances applications for future smart cities; healthcare in smart cities; machine learning applications in smart cities.