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Abstract : The world especially homes are getting smarter on a daily basis, by the arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT). As man is a social being the smart homes must not be standing alone, they must collaborate each other to build a smart community. It is a network of smart homes in a local geography. The smart community acts as an intermediate between smart homes and smart cities. Various papers propose smart community architecture where all homes in it are having the same functionality. But that is not the case in the real-world scenario. In a society, various homes will need various functionalities. Each home will have to monitor different parameters using different sensors and have to provide different responses and services accordingly. This paper presents a monitoring platform for a smart community, of which there are three custom-designed smart homes having different functionalities. The data is sent to community server via MQTT protocol. The data received at the server is saved in a database and is displayed in a webpage in the server. The monitoring platform was successfully implemented and was found functioning well.