How AI and IoT Can Be Leveraged For Citizen Security in Smart Cities
The term ‘Smart city’ has become quite popular these days. It denotes the urbanization or development of a locality leveraging the possibilities of the latest technological progressions. Unsurprisingly, many traditional cities have already turned smarter by providing a range of connected solutions and digitized public services to both the citizens and the travellers. However, there are many factors that can affect the implementation of a smart city such as the resources, infrastructure, the level of development, innovative skills of the developers, aspirations of the citizens as well as their willingness to change, etc. It is worth noting that all these factors might differ from cities to cities and countries to countries. Hence, the definition of smart city might be different for different people.
The city administration is expected to secure the lives and assets of the residents in a traditional city. Sadly, most administrative bodies still lag behind the latest technologies. This puts the physical as well as the digital assets of public at higher risk. On top of that, the rise in the migration rate of people from other countries are adding to the diversity and complexity of the city making things even worse. Global terrorism rate and environmental degradation are also on its peak. Besides, cyber criminals are becoming more technologically-equipped these days and so are the security threats and malicious attacks. Clearly, traditional defence mechanism and technologies will be inadequate to address all these security concerns. This is when smart data-centric technologies can play a vital role.
The technology field is ever-growing and the smart cities will get even smarter with new innovations and technologies. After all, the talented and innovative developers are making head-turning breakthroughs in the technology field every other day. Currently, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the latest technologies that play a crucial role in making cities smarter. Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence can be referred to as a technology that design machines in a way that it can think like humans and mimic their actions. In simple words, AI can be defined as any machine that tends to exhibit qualities or characteristics related to human mind such as problem-solving skills, speech recognition, planning, learning, etc.
