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africa and the moral your link to exceptional stories and discussions from the news of easy town while with safety deputed comes much traffic up join or something spoke at g.w. for cause. the city of the future is smart it's entirely interconnected to will regulate traffic save energy 5 crime assisted by big data and the internet of things brave new world or rather a surveillance nightmare what caused it is look like and do we really want to live there autopsy today on ships. more than half of the world's population lives in cities and this number is steadily rising resulting in enormous. challenges more people want traffic more

pollution more energy consumption more water usage more waste smaller cities are supposed to help cope with these problems projects are popping up everywhere for instance in nigeria south korea india or malaysia a livable city that can think for itself how does this work like this for example. visions of the future this is a smart city as imagined by tech companies and urban planning is regular street lights are replaced by smart poles which connect to other internet of things devices and provide broadband thanks to dr alice cause accidents hardly ever happen . and drones and robots deliver goods even coffee. in this future city salad grows underground at the urban. fomented and virtual reality make processes more efficient. one example is that

firefighters on duty can be assisted by the control center and take helps to find and correct system errors to prevent damage before it happens. sounds fantastic but in order for these ideas to become reality technical preconditions are essential a central role for so the new mobo communications standard 5 g. it's the engine for the internet of things and enables interconnected infrastructures on a grand scale an expert on smart cities is your. he's a researcher at the institute for the acknowledging management at the university of st golomb and has published a book with guidelines for cities that want to become smart we want to know how do i make a city smart and why. we want to improve people's lives. that's how i would summarize the goal of a smart city. in order to do this. it's important for citizens to be able to

properly explain what kind of city they'd like to live in. that's the starting point and we can begin designing a smart city based on those demands. of the city and want to turn it into a smart you'd have to consider the following. you need to make your city interconnected by adding census data for instance to cause the streets to be able to regulate traffic or to measuring stations station throughout the. city is usually a combination of the different urban systems that we have. for the most part that means mobility systems housing systems. administrators systems energy systems education systems and so on anything affecting citizens in their everyday lives can

be assigned a digital shadow. that simply collecting data is insufficient big data is no end in itself data needs to be prepared and. based on this solutions for usage you can be found. someone is close. anything's possible connected spots. to build a small city one must do 3 things connected devices collect data and assess this data to find solution for the citizens but how do i benefit from the smart city here. in. the city saves taxes by using resources more efficiently with the help of sensors public spaces are irrigated when they're too dry. the garbage bins are only emptied once they're for. in helsinki garbage trucks have become

obsolete waste is transferred to underground collection points without noise or pollution. in rio de janeiro a smartphone app is enabling residents to shape their surroundings the app smart favela create a 3 dimensional avatar of the shantytowns when city planners come up with new ideas these can be looked at on the app and then citizens can vote on them. in palo alto in the u.s. parking lots now have sensors these notify citizens whenever a parking space is free the city's traffic is constantly recorded. smart robo cops are supposed to make do by safer the police robots are equipped with cameras and can find persons through facial recognition tech reports can be filed on a touchpad. and dry hole that ukraine citizens can view the incomes of civil servants and check on how politicians have voted in the city council.

the city owned businesses lay bare their accounts using open data in the fight against corruption. in darmstadt germany interconnected sensors assess the air quality and send this information to a data center which analyzes air pollution and if necessary reports bad air quality . in order for these systems to work vast amounts of data on all citizens are required but who ensures that the data is safe and who has access to it different solutions exist. the data is essential for a city it provides the basis for designing intelligent applications for the city but what about data protection. to be clear in a smart city there is no protection from data being collected but on the other. and

it's precisely this data that provides the basis for implementing and controlling the city system. as a result very careful and conscientious decisions need to be made regarding how the data is handled. if the city controls. when it comes to data protection but most of the technical expertise to process and analyze the data for this reason many cities cooperate with big tech companies they have the capacity and the algorithms needed to work with data. like google. corp it will construct an entire district up to run with the newest technology of course but the data sovereignty stays with corporations like alphabet which is problematic as they use to make money. an entire city state and that's really off as many opportunities so what to do experts argue for so-called data utilities these are publicly financed but independent organizations they managed and

controlled access to data anyone interested in developing smart city solutions could use them no matter if city owned business. or big company a promising approach i think everyone should be able to profit from. personal data is anonymised as a citizen i cannot influence which state of mind is being used. to cold a project by the european union even further to empower individuals to control their data citizens themselves should decide whether personal information stays private or if it's being shared in order to make the city smarter. pilot projects have been running in amsterdam and barcelona since 2018. should be. as a common good. transportation like. they all. so believe

that citizens can responsibly deal with their own. a desirable goal citizens should be in charge of their own data once private corporations or governments control data in the smart city where do you draw the line when it comes to surveillance an example from. taxi headquarters in china the red cars the. algorithms used right histories to predict which areas are likely to have a lot of customers and. drivers directly head to these locations like. his car is part of the network consisting of 20000 taxis. and it's equipped with cameras. headquarters can watch him work and listen in on all conversations. in the beginning i was uncomfortable as i didn't really know much about it and felt constantly observed but actually there is no reason for

concern the cameras protect the customers and drivers to. privacy is ensured as not everyone can view the video. according to the taxi headquarters all data is well protected and deleted after $72.00. they say the system is great for educating drive and the footage can be used to settle conflicts complaints the taxi provider customers complain less frequently and that most like the camera has to drive is less worried about being threatened but the police also has access to the videos. people really taxis. another problem. parking lots. are connected to the internet and potential gateways for hackers theoretically one weak link is all it takes to shut down the city's central servers. and cyber terrorists could go even further is

tonia demonstrates how to protect oneself. in terms of digital administration estonia's eats the brain yet estonians can vote online and almost all public services are digitally accessible but this also increases vulnerability. in 2007 estonia was targeted by cyber attacks from a global network of connected costs. both online banking and government websites were affected in response to estonia has implemented annual international training on fighting attacks from hackers they organized by nato inside the defense hub and over 20 nations the military and tech companies take part. question is look we got this. cyber attack but the question is when you get hit through the cyber attack so the script is not something you can do once because that landscape are changing every day side as

a curate is also crucial for smart cities they are becoming a steadily increasing economic factor tech companies use smart cities around the world to test their future technologies the big question is does this benefit the citizens to a point of importance to me who controls the applications and who owns the data we need to find responsible solutions and the citizens interest what's your opinion would you like to live this way i was not is your city join the discussion i'm looking forward to your feedback bye for now and see you next time.

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