Event Streaming with Kafka as Foundation for a Smart City

Kai Waehner
6 min readMar 5, 2021

A smart city is an urban area that uses different types of electronic Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to collect data and then use insights gained from that data to manage assets, resources, and services efficiently. This blog post explores how Apache Kafka fits into the smart city architecture and the benefits and use cases.

(Originally posted on Kai Waehner’s blog: “Apache Kafka as Perfect Fit for a Smart City Architecture”… Stay informed about new blog posts by subscribing to my newsletter)

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Kai Waehner

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