Background study What is smart city? With the development of information technology, the information and communication technologies (ITC) are used frequently and widely in societies, business and governments. In 2008, IBM generate a new concept – smart city – to study the impact of application of ITC to today’s society (Dirks, S., 2010). During the recent years, the concept of smart city has been a main trend for the cities around the world to develop. However, there is not a standard definition for smart city because of the continuous revolution of technology and its applications. According to Hamblen (2015), the smart city is generally to be consider as an urban area that uses innovation and applications of ITC to manage assets and resources efficiently for the whole society to development and improve the quality of living for the citizens. IT solutions in smart city Shown in the figure 1 developed by Cohen (2012), there are six dimensions of smart city – smart economy, smart government, smart people, smart living, smart mobility, smart environment. Most cities implement the plan of the smart cities according to these dimensions. And the detailed respective objectives in six dimensions are shown in the Figure 2 according to PWC (2017). To fulfil the requirements, some application and solutions have appeared, for example, smart street …show more content…
For example, the GPS will share your location with other applications. This will help to improve the users’ experience by offering some advices on what is around users. However, sometimes, this may make users feel that they are tracked. The privacy is relative to the data and information and the data is an essential part of smart city. Therefore, the privacy issue is related to the whole process in smart city (see figure
Victorian government came up with a new idea of smart card ticketing transport system. This was also to collaborate the train, bus and tram services in Victoria. With this spark of idea in 2002, a project case and a feasibility study was
The Human and Ethical Aspects of Big Data, quickly outlines an array of ethical problems that big data has had and will continue to develop in the upcoming years in our society. The author begins by giving an example of the earliest use of big data, the census. Census data can provide a plethora of benefits to society, representation in government, civil planning, such as road and water treatment, as these take years to construct and having the population and these necessities, Time align is crucial. As the author, uses the example of the internment of Japanese-Americans in 1943. Here is big-data supposed to help the citizens of the Unites States, the big data that is supposed to be private. Now in 1943, big data being used to discriminate
The personal connection Americans have with their phones, tablets, and computers; and the rising popularity of online shopping and social websites due to the massive influence the social media has on Americans, it is clear why this generation is called the Information Age, also known as Digital Age. With the Internet being a huge part of our lives, more and more personal data is being made available, because of our ever-increasing dependence and use of the Internet on our phones, tablets, and computers. Some corporations such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook; governments, and other third parties have been tracking our internet use and acquiring data in order to provide personalized services and advertisements for consumers. Many American such as Nicholas Carr who wrote the article “Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty, With Real Dangers,” Anil Dagar who wrote the article “Internet, Economy and Privacy,” and Grace Nasri who wrote the article “Why Consumers are Increasingly Willing to Trade Data for Personalization,” believe that the continuing loss of personal privacy may lead us as a society to devalue the concept of privacy and see privacy as outdated and unimportant. Privacy is dead and corporations, governments, and third parties murdered it for their personal gain not for the interest of the public as they claim. There are more disadvantages than advantages on letting corporations, governments, and third parties track and acquire data to personalized services and advertisements for us.
An effort to combat the continual development of urban sprawl, smart growth development looks to solve this dilemma. The idea of smart growth concentrates its development around compact walkable centers within urban areas. The purpose of this is to avoid the growing sprawl through the implementation of walkable, bicycle-friendly and alternative transportation like b...
Protecting privacy is considered an essential human right, crucial and important to the protection of liberty. Although privacy is such a massive part of our lives, today’s technology is threatening the safety and privacy of many people (Rotenberg). Cell phones, social media, government, and other forms of technology threaten the lives of many both in their personal life and their life in the workplace (Lazar). We must start to consider ways to help protect privacy more efficiently to protect the lives of people all across the globe. The protection of privacy has many different “dimensions” or parts. Privacy is typically also associated with dignity, trust, and liberty. The many ways that privacy is threatened all lead to one thing which is
From the users’ perspective, as mentioned above, they should take care to control how they share their information. Different users have different mindsets regarding privacy, and the settings over which the users have control, they should use them to maintain a suitable level of privacy.
Customers' personal data is a treasure for companies looking to discover consumers' online habits and a moneymaker if they sell that information to third parties. There is a giant gap between the type of tracking that companies do on the web and what people know or think is happening. Through a conducted by researchers ”found that information transfer, notice/awareness, and information storage were the top online privacy concerns of Internet users” (Anton) The general public has very little idea that every second they surf on the Internet, their actions are being tracked and used to create a "profile" which is then sold to companies on markets. Online tracking is not the same as it used to be with the traditional cookies, it now involves new tools that gather very sensitive information about the person. These new tools include flash cookies and beacons. Flash cookies can be used to re-install cookies when the user has deleted them, and beacons can track everything a user does on a web page including what the user types and he moves the mouse. However, there are solutions to preserve privacy in the web;” tech...
Privacy does not have a single definition and it is a concept that is not easily defined. Information privacy is an individual's claim to control the terms under which personal information is acquired, disclosed, and used [9]. In the context of privacy, personal information includes any information relating to or traceable to an individual person [ 1]. Privacy can be defined as a fundamental human right; thus, privacy protection which involves the establishment of rules governing the collection and handling of personal data can be seen as a boundary line as how far society can intrude into a person's affairs.
With the recent technologies, such as the 'Google Glass' and high-tech tracking devices, more and more people are concerned with 'freedom of interference' issues. Often, seemingly harmless text files can track personal information and cellphones can record text messages and phone calls. Although technology has been beneficial to society, it poses serious privacy concerns to users.
For the prevantion of the electricity blackout we need to build smart power grid. A modernized electrical grid that uses analog or digital information and communications technology to gather and act on information, such as information about the behaviours of suppliers and consumers is known as a smart grid. This is used to improve the efficiency, reliability, economics, and sustainability of the production and distribution of electricity in an automated fashion[12]. The important aspects of smart grid is to electronic power conditioning and control of the production and distribution of
As an easy scope of defining it, urban smart city is a wicked problem since it represents the inability of city planners to incorporate information technology in the daily processes of every urban area to increase their effectiveness and efficiency due to lack of adequate knowledge concerning the outcome of such initiatives. It is a fact that information technology’s limitless uses are likely to create urban centers that make living easier and better, but there is uncertainty with reference to their interconnectivity impacts (Chen par.2). The easiness of identifying the causes of the wicked problem of urban smart city prompts the consideration of various factors. These factors include the issues of privacy and security that surround technological devices, lack of clarity on eventual impact to urban livelihoods, lack of proper operation and maintenance funds, and non-commonness of policies that promote smart city agendas. Fortunately, a solution is available that can alienate all the afore-listed causes of the wicked problem of urban smart city. It involves the adoption of a leadership plan that centers on harmonizing all elements that typify urban smart city. Harmonized leadership is poised to describe systematically the vital features and functions of a typical urban smart city that covers conception, design, implementation, operation, and maintenance. These descriptions are what every involved
At present we are facing many problems in our cities such as structural health of building, waste management, air and noise pollution, energy consumption and traffic congestion. Our project is to monitor these problems and provide a solution. By using an IOT, monitoring becomes quite easy as from anywhere we can monitor it. In our project, we will work on problems of waste management, air and noise pollution, street lighting and make a city “The Smart City”.
Analogous to the way humans use the Internet, devices will be the main users in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Therefore, device-to-device (D2D) communication is expected to be an intrinsic part of the IoT. Devices will communicate with each other autonomously without any centralized control and collaborate to gather, share, and forward information in a multihop manner. (Bello and Zeadally, 2014). The word Smart is used in conjunction with various words such as Living, Cities, Metering, Grids, Water Levy and Lighting to describe a variety of applications t...
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When considering geographical data privacy, it is very important to maintain as location tracking capabilities of mobile devices are advancing (location-based services), problems related to user privacy arises. If the privacy of location data is not maintain properly terrorists, thieves can easily access our location.