The internet of things is composed of many exiting technologies and is applied in many domains, it can be considered as a new technological revolution. Application of IOT brings a higher efficiency, more convenient and safe life to us and emerging industries come into being by the new functions. The issues of urban development need some new technologies, new ideas and new conceptions, such as IOT, to solve it. Through IOT, the location, status parameters, attribute parameter of underground pipelines can be got in long-distance and be dealt with automatically. In this process, some new technical standards of IOT should be established and the security of system of IOT and data transfer should be pay great attention.