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Smart City Platform Architecture
An integrated smart city platform: sensors and city systems feeding a central data platform that runs the command centre and citizen services.
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What this diagram shows
- City sensors and department systems feed one data platform
- Integrated command and control centre watches the whole city
- Citizens report issues and get alerts through one app
Prompt used
A smart city platform: traffic cameras, air quality sensors, smart streetlights and water meters send data through an IoT gateway to a city data platform (data lake plus stream processing). The integrated command and control centre (ICCC) shows live dashboards and incidents to city operators. Department systems (traffic police, water board, waste management) exchange data with the platform. Citizens use a city app to report issues and receive alerts, and an open data portal publishes datasets.
Mermaid code
C4Container
title Smart City Platform
Person(operator, "Command Centre Operator", "Monitors the city")
Person(citizen, "Citizen", "Reports issues, gets alerts")
System_Ext(sensors, "City Sensors", "Cameras, air quality, streetlights, water meters")
System_Ext(depts, "Department Systems", "Traffic, water, waste")
System_Boundary(sc, "Smart City Platform") {
Container(iot, "IoT Gateway", "MQTT", "Sensor connections")
Container(stream, "Stream Processing", "Kafka + Flink", "Live events")
ContainerDb(lake, "City Data Lake", "Object storage", "All city data")
Container(iccc, "Command and Control Centre", "Web dashboards", "Live map and incidents")
Container(app, "Citizen App", "Flutter", "Complaints and alerts")
Container(open, "Open Data Portal", "CKAN", "Public datasets")
}
Rel(sensors, iot, "Send readings")
Rel(iot, stream, "Forwards")
Rel(stream, lake, "Stores")
Rel(stream, iccc, "Live incidents")
Rel(operator, iccc, "Uses")
Rel(depts, stream, "Exchange data")
Rel(citizen, app, "Uses")
Rel(app, iccc, "Raises complaints")
Rel(lake, open, "Publishes")Related templates
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