Framework for managing smart cities security and privacy applications

Abstract

The enormously growing population in urban areas and the impact it has on the urban environment escalates the need of sophisticated management approaches that acquire the latest advancements of ICT, IoT and AI to enhance every city offered service. A smart city is capable of monitoring the physical world in real time and gathering city and citizens related data, then processing and analyzing this data in order to control city facilities and influence the life of citizens. The emerging of such technologies in cities raises multiple security and privacy concerns and challenges at individual and community levels. Several attempts have been introduced to guarantee the security and privacy of sensed data. In this paper we examine the security and privacy of smart city applications, the challenges faced and the solutions proposed. We first introduce smart cities and we provide an overview of major security problems and current solutions in some categories of smart cities. We then investigate the security challenges related to both city infrastructure and data, and we propose a framework to overcome these challenges.