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The world is experiencing an evolution of Smart Cities. These emerge from innovations in information technology that, while they create new economic and social opportunities, pose challenges to our security and expectations of privacy.

Security in Smart Cities

The world is experiencing an evolution of Smart Cities. These emerge from innovations in information technology that, while they create new economic and social opportunities, pose challenges to our security and expectations of privacy. Humans are already interconnected via smart phones and gadgets. Smart energy meters, security devices and smart appliances are being used in many cities. Homes, cars, public venues and other social systems are now on their path to the full connectivity known as the “Internet of Things.” Standards are evolving for all of these potentially connected systems. They will lead to unprecedented improvements in the quality of life. To benefit from them, city infrastructures and services are changing with new interconnected systems for monitoring, control and automation. Intelligent transportation, public and private, will access a web of interconnected data from GPS location to weather and traffic updates. Integrated systems will aid public safety, emergency responders and in disaster recovery. We examine two important and entangled challenges: security and privacy. Security includes illegal access to information and attacks causing physical disruptions in service availability. As digital citizens are more and more instrumented with data available about their location and activities, privacy seems to disappear. Privacy protecting systems that gather data and trigger emergency response when needed are technological challenges that go hand-in-hand with the continuous security challenges. Their implementation is essential for a Smart City in which we would wish to live. We also present a model representing the interactions among person, servers and things. Those are the major element in the smart city and their interactions are what we need to protect.

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Smart Transportation:

Smart cities cannot fulfill their vision without providing new solutions for transport within the city. “Intelligent transportation” is an umbrella term for initiatives that improve mobility in smart cities, from technology infrastructures like sensors and payment systems to new modes of transport and platforms that help consumers optimally use transport services.

Intelligent transportation is one of the main ways smart cities are improving the daily lives of citizens and improving sustainability. It includes tracking high trafficked pedestrian areas, traffic patterns, metro stations and coordinating bus times.

Intelligent transportation can enhance interoperability, general awareness of situations, and the capacity to share information swiftly. It offers a comprehensive approach to risk management, putting emergency procedures and response capabilities in place, and identifying dangers, including vandalism or violence, fare evasion, and medical emergencies.

Smart Government

Smart government is about using technology to facilitate and support better planning and decision making. It is about improving democratic processes and transforming the ways that public services are delivered. It is a new way of governance relying on information and communication technologies and it is citizen centric, data driven and performance focused.

The use of innovative policies, business models, and technology to address the financial, environmental, and service challenges facing public sector organizations. The concept of Smart Government relies on consolidated information systems and communication networks.

Education and Health

While most of the activity around smart cities remains focused on infrastructure-based initiatives — such as smart grids and metering, smart street lights, smart waste management and smart bins, smart parking, smart kiosks and smart utilities — cities also need to address the ‘softer’ aspects of livability linked to healthcare and education.

As well as improving life for people who live and work in the city, extending the rollout of disruptive new technologies to education and healthcare drives economic growth.

Energy

The electricity network of the future will largely exist of renewable energy. Energy from the sun and wind is unpredictable by definition and brings new technical and economic challenges to society. On the other hand, the Internet and ICT enable innovations that could provide solutions. Smarter use of energy in combination with ICT is also known as Smart Grid.

Together with businesses, concepts are further developed, researched and tested, so as to lower the price of and improve the sale of renewable energy to the Dutch electricity grid. Here the production technology and the economy meet in their efforts to produce more wind and solar energy. Think about: storage in power to X as batteries, gas, hydrogen etc., and stabilising electricity networks, peak shaving, cable pooling etc.

Smart Economy

The digital infrastructure of a smart city sets the stage for a network of partnerships all focused on one goal: Creating a smarter city. The result? An urban center that not only leverages technology to improve its own operations but connects with citizens, businesses, and nonprofits in new ways.

Smart City Development in Iran

Smart cities can develop cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions and policies to improve urban life. Iran had been started the development of infrastructure required for developing smart and innovative solution, specifies for the Persian’s urban context and now is in its way to stablish “smart transformation” as a process to undertake ICT technologies and infrastructure to meet the local urban challenges. Cities such as Tehran (the capital), Mashhad, Tabriz, Arak, Qom, Isfahan, Shiraz, Kish Island, Urmia and other cities have entered the process.

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The government, cities, organizations, and companies are making a great effort for an advanced and inclusive country project. Iranian cities have entered the phases of realization of the electronic city for about the last two decades and after that, have entered the phases of realization of the smart city. Cities such as Mashhad, Tehran, Shiraz, Tabriz, Yazd, Urmia, and other cities have done well but are still far from the smart city. During these years, most of the measures taken by Iranian cities are in the field of infrastructure and technology, and the issue of citizen participation and citizen involvement in the city has been ignored. It can be said that most of the measures are top-down and because of this, no significant achievement has been achieved.

According to global statistics, Iran is one of the most innovative countries in the world in recent years, and in the field of startups and supporting start-up businesses, very good measures have been taken at the level of governance and the private sector. For example, in Tehran, Shiraz, Mashhad, and many other cities, innovation factories have been built and Azadi Innovation Factory is the largest start-up center in the Middle East and North Africa, located in an area of 18,500 square meters west of the capital. Also, several venture capital centers, acceleration centers, and startup studios have been established in Iranian cities and support startups.

Information and Communication Equipment and Infrastructure

Smart infrastructure provides the foundation for all smart solutions. Using new technologies to convert raw data into information, urban and regional planning can be tailored to meet the needs of the future. Current systems can also be improved by analyzing data, traffic patterns, and tracking systems.

Information and Communication Equipment and Infrastructure includes
  • Communication units, fiber optic, sensors
  • Software and hardware infrastructure
  • Internet Service Providers
  • Information and Communication Technologies
  • Smart hardware and software
Smart Environment

Smart environment is a small world where different kinds of smart device are continuously working to make inhabitants’ lives more comfortable.” Smart environments aim to satisfy the experience of individuals from every environment, by replacing the hazardous work, physical labor, and repetitive tasks with automated agents. We can differentiate three different kinds of smart environments for systems, services and devices: virtual (or distributed) computing environments, physical environments and human environments, or a hybrid combination of these:

  • Virtual computing environments enable smart devices to access pertinent services anywhere and anytime.
  • Physical environments may be embedded with a variety of smart devices of different types including tags, sensors and controllers and have different form factors ranging from nano- to micro- to macro-sized.
  • Human environments: humans, either individually or collectively, inherently form a smart environment for devices. However, humans may themselves be accompanied by smart devices such as mobile phones, use surface-mounted devices (wearable computing) and contain embedded devices (e.g., pacemakers to maintain a healthy heart operation or AR contact lenses).
Smart environments are broadly classified to have the following features
  • Remote control of devices, like power line communication systems to control devices.
  • Device Communication, using middleware, and Wireless communication to form a picture of connected environments.
  • Information Acquisition/Dissemination from sensor networks
  • Enhanced Services by Intelligent Devices
  • Predictive and Decision-Making capabilities

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