A unified architecture framework for intergrating IoT into key national infrastructure to enhance the e-government ecosystem in Rwanda

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as an enabling technology and key driver of innovation to advance e-governance and public service delivery. E-governance has considerable benefits compared to traditional governance including improved services, transparency and trust, efficiency, better accessibility of public services, sustainable community development, accountability, increased citizen participation in government activities, enhanced national information infrastructure, reduced paperwork and time spent in government institutions departments. It is in this regard that Governments are looking how to enhance e-Governance by the integration of IoT within key national infrastructures. Ultimately, this will have very large involvement with respect to policy decision making, social and economic development. The work aims to explore how to enhance e-Governance by using IoT as a way to help Governments keep track of progress and achievement of national goals. A unified architecture framework for integrating IoT into the implementation of e-Government services will be developed to have one platform for government program and services rather than having each public institution with its own way of taking decision and reporting; Elastic stack products are used to implement big data IOT solution and unstructured data with massive scaled analytics capabilities. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of IoT solutions in the large spectrum of e-Governance domain, we will use the use case of smart air quality monitoring, smart waste collection and smart water quality monitoring in the Kigali city as this will help us perform evaluation in situations that are close to real scale and operation conditions. The objective is to design a unified architecture framework for integrating IoT in e-government for accuracy decision making. The expected results will show the benefits of IoT solution to improve e-Governance across national infrastructures domai