Welcome to section 6, secure your
smart city. This is the last section of this course, and
in the section, we'll recap and quickly review the on the
speed complexity and urgency for smart cities Security
Solutions. You probably already noticed that I didn't name the section securing
a smart city. I wanted to make sure that I
could invite you to think about securing your
own Smart City. So, most importantly, in
the section. I'll be talking to you as the
cyber security expert, the Enthusiast, or even activist.
And what you can do to help your smart City?
This is video 6.1 and as we've already discussed, smart
cities aren't about the technology. It's
about how governments and citizens use the technology and whole
new and innovative ways. That being said, cities
are also fast becoming favorite targets for ransomware attacks
and many, many data breaches that cause lots
of other problems, Beyond, just Financial
In this first section, we're going to ask the provocative question. What
kind of city do you want more specifically?
What kind of smart city do you want to
protect? There are lots of advancements and
energy mobility and data. That's create more and more
risks and threats to our cities.
So everything comes at a cost and
there are many risks facing an intelligent, see for
the future. So let's get started.
As we discussed in the previous sections, Cesar facing enormous pressure
to solve the various social, economic and environmental
crises. Sometimes all at the same time. So,
you know, I need to look in the mirror and ask ourselves.
What kind of city do we want? And
in this kind of illustration, we start looking at four different
examples. So the first one affordability is
your City only for commuters, or the
rich or is it just a kind of a tourist destination?
Ian completely owned and occupied by visitors are
broad. Maybe you can help and I'll build an algorithm that can help
keep the housing affordable and available for
locals. Only diversity cities, have this
awesome reputation throughout our civilization that.
I've always been home to many ethnic and income
groups of which people can keep it
Lively and fun, and exciting. Safety is
another one. Sometimes you have cities that organize
themselves, all about security and
So forth, but do we want a surveillance state?
Do we want a city that is monitoring. Our every Behavior
safety can also mean that we
mean a data protection and privacy and digital rights. So
that's another example happiness. And this is a really
kind of basic need. It's not crazy radical
idea. But when was the last time you remember being
joyful or happy in your own City? Why
was that? And what conditions can you create? Maybe yourself
to create a more?
Livable fearless and happy City.
So as this course, is already suggested.
There's lots of colors and flavors of smart cities and
there's lots of decisions being made at the same time
and we discussed in the previous sections about different
models are examples of smart cities around the world. And
each of those have a different emphasis on different kinds
of sectors or themes or topics for
good and bad. But these, These are
kind of eight types, of example. So a
city
for Citizens, so it's not a top-down government telling
us what to do. It's the citizens coming together, using
data, using insights, in facts information to
tell the city's what to do. Cities can
also use the outdoors at
the built environments for control to make sure that everything
is orderly and safe and controlled. Sometimes
in the Smart City situations, that
means monitoring of our every waking
moment behaviors and so forth.
But nevertheless, maybe things are clean and safe. And
that's something that we want to protect some
cities. I think you probably got the picture here
in Amsterdam is also about research in an experimentation and
sometimes Innovation. So the Technologies themselves, do
vital, and important roles, but
the it's not about necessarily what
those Technologies are and how accurate
they are and how stable they are but
simply
How we use those Technologies and new and innovative ways
Prosperity. Some of these kind
of Capital Cities, these Financial kind of hubs
are about prosperity, and that's about efficiency
growth and profits, that can easily happen when
you have, for example, the sidewalk
Labs example, for the in Toronto, wasn't
for nothing that Google wanted to build its own City
because there was a business model behind it and
we have to ask ourselves. If there is, if
it's
For profit motive. Is that the kind of
City we want? Nevertheless when there is
wealth, those cities also look and
work quite quite well. Do we want a
city that is again for safety that we
feel secure. We feel safe. You feel protected. I'm
hoping that it's not so much, the police state or
the surveillance state, but very much about just that kind of
social networks that we have and
the comfort of knowing that things can be
Detected on time. And and mate
keeps keeps our neighborhoods and streets and sidewalks safe
and safe for everybody for
justice. A lot of Street cities have become
homes to lots of demonstrations and
protests and so forth. So what
kinds of cities will can we create in
the future that talks about the digital rights and privacy issues.
These are really important topics because
those are human rights.
And we want to make sure that our smart CD is in just tech-driven,
policy-driven that
the Technologies are helping protect our privacy and
personal private rights. Livability,
again, I talked about this just a second ago, but
it's about diversity, inclusiveness and
affordability. So it's cities are for
everybody from everybody. So
how do we create and systems and solutions that make
it as diverse and as
Kind of inclusive as possible. And for balance,
a lot of some of the other examples, I mentioned there,
was this commitment Back To Nature finding
that balance between the
city and mother nature, or the city and the ecological
environment for biodiversity and
those kinds of things. These are all colors
and flavors, is it mentioned that we
need to kind of decide for ourselves? What role
we can play to either protect these?
In values or what we can do to
explore these Concepts further as
a unique brand or face
of our new city.
So, very quickly before I get into the
what you can do section. It's good to just
have a look back over our shoulder and
see what we saw. In the previous sections, when
I talked about future mobility. And these were Concepts sometimes.
Tech-driven, sometimes not like last mile delivery is
more of a process. Shared Mobility is
a, as a policy, autonomous vehicles
is a thing. It's happening. It's coming which
leads to the
The smart signs and the signaling. These
are all things that are coming. What
if this is a topic that you're interested in,
there's plenty of opportunities for you to get
involved to develop these Technologies or
protect. These Technologies from ourselves Smart
Energy is one of the most vulnerable ones
without power. We have no cities in
the future as I discussed. It's going to be much
more independent with smart grids and store.
Origin load balancing smart meters and monitoring with
these kinds of systems. We can create not
just carbon neutral but energy positive kinds
of neighborhoods and communities where our cities are
producing more than we need. And that's really exciting. Iot
is the are the, are those devices
that are creating this kind of environments where
it's all around us. Everything's connected.
Everything's continue communicating with one another. So
whether it's the way,
Bulls smart, farming devices, business,
and home automation systems in the smart metering.
In the sensing, all of these things become
the internet of everything. And it becomes ambient layer
of our lives, in our cities, so,
we should become much more familiar with them with these
things because these are the most vulnerable components
of our city open data is
very important to me personally, but
it's, it's also very kind of
Glue that keeps the cities together. So it's
not just about hoarding all the data to for maximum profits.
It's about sharing the data in
meaningful ways, to other communities, whether it be developer communities, entrepreneurs
journalists, researchers maker
communities, when you offer these data back
to them, they can use that information in
whole new ways. We haven't thought of, but we can
only do that once the data is open and there's much
much more that I've
Were I haven't even talked about yet in this course, which
is about the circularity 3D. Printing the
digital rights again vertical farming
digital twins, arv are in the middle
of verse. These aren't just hype Cycles. These are
real Future CD making Trends
and perhaps there'll be another course on
these topics in the future.
So, with all that optimism, we have to kind of hit
the brake a second, and tell you that
everything is coming at a cost and there's lots of risks facing
our Smart City, intelligence cities
and very quickly. We
are looking at for kind of core components, whether it's
hardware, and software connectivity maintenance and
security. The hardware software is
kind of creating a kind of
new dilemma right now. We're becoming more and more dependent on these things.
Where is needs to be constantly,
maintained, and monitored and hardened against the taxed software
likewise with antivirus,
kinds of things. So, there's a lot of kind
of energy that needs to be invested in the hardware or software sector
connectivity. Again. This is, this is the kind
of the Broadband, the kind of ways that
the vices are talking to each other. These are
the ways that most hackers and attackers gets
inside. Your device's is looking through the networks.
Maintenance as I just said, is a 24/7 super
demanding task where we need to be
constantly monitoring and maintaining our devices because that's
where the attacks happen and awful. Things
can happen. Not just to your municipality but to
your own lives once when those things
aren't maintained properly and security that's
you helping us. Keep a priority on
the Safety and Security of our system. So is
it up to date? Is it up to Snuff is?
All the firmware up to code. Do we have the right authentications?
Good management. Good
account. Good hygiene. That's what, that's what I'm hoping. You
can do to help keep your city safe.
So let's move on to the next section and these again
are key, takeaways of our Smart City security. Let's
move on.