WHAT IS A SMART CITY?

1. It is a technologically modern urban area.

2. It uses different types of electronic methods and
sensors to collect specific data.
• This data is used to manage assets,
resources and services efficiently.

• This data is used to improve operations

across the city.

3. Smart cities are defined

as smart both in the ways
in which their governments
harness technology as well
as in how they monitor,
analyse, plan and govern
the city.

4. The data collected from citizens, devices building

and assets that is processed and analysed to
monitor and manage traffic and transportation
systems, power plants, utilities, water supply
networks, waste, crime detection, information
systems, schools, libraries, hospitals, and other
community services.
 HOW CAN SMART CITIES BE
HELPFUL IN THE MEDICAL FIELD?

1. Future smart cities are the key to fulfilling citizens' ever-growing

demands. Advancements in technology in healthcare applications is
revolutionary and results in making human lives secure from diseases
up to a great extent.\
2. ‘Smart Health Technology’ combines Smart Technology and latest
mobile devices with health.
3. Nowadays, numerous initiatives have been designed to encourage a
broader view of health and well-being thus smart wearable devices
like fitness tracker or fitness bands and even health assessment apps
in smartphones have gained grand attention amongst the people.
4. Smart and pervasive health
monitoring systems can reduce
death risks, which is still a
challenging and hot topic.
5. Pervasive health monitoring plays a
significant role in identifying the
issue at earlier stages.

6. Healthcare management is vital to any

future smart city.
7. Healthcare facilities are a necessary
part of the city's life to take care of the
citizens' well-being.
8. The availability of high-speed communication networks, cloud
computing, and multimedia services in the smart city also possess
enormous potential in telemedicine, remote medical services, medical
data analysis and movement.
9. City-level smart healthcare management components may include
personal healthcare, smart hospital, telemedicine/online consultancy,
smart medicine, smart disease control, and smart healthcare
reporting.
10. Technological advancements in
smart cities also significantly
increases the possible ways of
improving the health of citizens.
11. The use of artificial intelligence,
machine learning, and the
Internet of Things (IoT) devices
in smart homes provides
healthcare monitoring at the
personal level virtually 24/7.
12. These devices are smart in the sense as they not only just monitor
health but also provide solutions if needed at the right time.
13. Smart devices act as the base of smart healthcare. Smart Health
technology interacts and engages with data produced by those devices
which can be analysed by doctors, researchers and health care
professionals for better-
personalized diagnosis
and solutions
 HOW CAN SMART CITIES BE
HELPFUL IN THE TRAFFIC
FIELD?
1. Smart Traffic Management Systems are technology solutions that
municipalities can integrate into their traffic cabinets and
intersections today for fast, cost-effective improvements in safety
and traffic flow on their city streets.
2. Upgrading our city's existing Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITS) infrastructure can create huge efficiencies and cost savings,
while massively improving system reliability, all of which have
excellent ROI.
3. These systems utilize sensors,
cameras, cellular routers and
automation to monitor and
automatically direct traffic and
reduce congestion.
4. The right technology solution can
be scaled to any size and painlessly
upgraded at any time.
Simultaneously, these technology
solutions prepare Smart Cities for coming technology evolutions,
including Connected Vehicle and the full deployment of 5G
networks.
5. Smart Traffic Management Systems
help municipal and regional
transportation departments to cope
with the situation — quickly and
cost-effectively.
 HOW CAN SMART CITIES BE
HELPFUL IN THE EDUCATION
FIELD.
1. Smart learning is a model of learning adapted to new
generations of digital natives.
2. Smart learning environment allows students to have equal
and equitable access to digital learning tools.
3. Strengths in basic education, advanced training and
certification, universities and
community colleges, e-learning
infrastructure, lifelong learning
and innovation in education
technologies are all part of
what defines a smart city.
4. Smart classroom tecnology
supports the
professionalization of the
teaching process, supporting teachers to better prepare
and enrich their lectures and to react flexibly to the needs
of students and conditions in classrooms, leading to
increased efficiency and better teaching performance.
5. An advantage of smart education is
that it should enable teachers to meet
the needs of students with specific
modes of learning, such as those who
are mostly visual learners. "Studies
show visual learners make up about
65% of the population and 90% of
information is transmitted visually. It’s important to teach to
 students’ strengths, especially when the content may not be inherently
memorable or engaging."

HOW CAN SMART CITIES BE

HELPFUL IN THE SAFETY AND
SECURITY FIELD?
1. Billions of connected ‘things’ are deployed in smart cities around the world.
The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) exposes a wide range of
vulnerabilities that can be exploited by cyber criminals and other malicious
actors. Although smart cities are designed to increase productivity and
efficiency, they can potentially present serious risks for residents and
authorities when cyber security is neglected. There are an unknown number
of potential vulnerabilities and methodologies, some of the most common
attacks include:
2. Data and identity theft:
Data generated by
unprotected smart city
infrastructure such as
parking garages, EV
charging stations and
surveillance feeds
provide cyber attackers
with an ample amount of
targeted personal
information that can
potentially be exploited
for fraudulent transactions and identify theft.
3. Device hijacking: The attacker hijacks and effectively assumes
control of a device. These attacks can be difficult to detect because in
many cases, the attacker does not alter the basic functionality of the
device. In the context of a smart city, a cyber-criminal could exploit
hijacked smart meters to launch ransomware attacks on Energy
 Management Systems (EMS) or stealthily siphon energy from a
municipality.
4. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS): A denial-of- service attack (DoS
attack) attempts to render a machine or network resource
unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely
disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. This is
typically achieved by flooding the target with superfluous requests to
prevent legitimate requests from being fulfilled. In the case of a
distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack), incoming traffic
flooding a target originates from multiple
sources, making it difficult to stop the cyber
offensive by simply blocking a single source.
Within smart cities, a plethora of devices,
such as parking meters, can be breached
and forced to join a botnet programmed to
overwhelm a system by requesting a service
simultaneously.
5. Permanent Denial of Service (PDoS): Permanent denial- of-service
attacks (PDoS), also known loosely as phlashing, is
an attack that damages the device so badly that it
requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware.
In a smart city scenario, a hijacked parking meter
could also fall victim to sabotage and would have to
be replaced.
6. Connected smart city devices should be protected by
comprehensive IoT security solutions (device to cloud). Practical and
simple, yet secure, solutions that can be easily and widely adopted by
OEMs and services are more effective than a ‘super solution’ that
fails to gain serious traction. Such solutions should include the
following capabilities:
7. Firmware integrity and secure boot: Secure boot utilizes
cryptographic code signing techniques, ensuring that a device only
executes code generated by the device OEM or another trusted party.
Use of secure boot technology prevents hackers from replacing
firmware with malicious versions, thereby preventing attacks.
 Unfortunately, not all IoT chipsets are equipped with secure boot
capabilities. In such a scenario, it is important to ensure that the IoT
device can only communicate with authorized services to avoid the
risk of replacing firmware with malicious instruction
sets.
8. Mutual authentication: Every time a smart city
device connects to the network it should be
authenticated prior to receiving or transmitting
data. This ensures that the data originates from a
legitimate device and not a fraudulent source.
Secure, mutual authentication— where two entities
(device and service) must prove their identity to each other—helps
protect against malicious attacks.
9. Security monitoring and analysis: Captures data on the overall state
of the system, including endpoint devices and connectivity traffic.
This data is then analyzed to detect possible security violations or
potential system threats. Once detected, a broad range of actions
formulated in the context of an overall system security policy should
be executed, such as quarantining devices based on anomalous
behavior.
10. Security lifecycle management
The lifecycle management feature allows service providers and OEMs
to control the security aspects of IoT devices when
in operation. Rapid over the air (OTA) device
key(s) replacement during cyber disaster recovery
ensures minimal service disruption. In addition,
secure device decommissioning ensures that
scrapped devices will not be repurposed and
exploited to connect to a service without
authorization