Leveraging the advanced technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and so on, smart cities are a new type of urban model to improve people's quality of life and resource allocation. By all accounts, smart cities — no matter how shiny and hyper connected they may be are on a cyber-odyssey. A lot of threats to data integrity and availability of critical infrastructure are originated from this end like privacy leakage so on. As research objective, this paper mainly intended to investigate the underlying cyber challenges in smart cities comprising vulnerabilities of IoT devices, data privacy issues and no legal codes for governing IT/communications infrastructure. It further suggests generalist solutions, such as the utilization of hybrid security hardware smart secrecy algorithms and machine learning controlled systems for video surveillance/spy camera’s or the use of block chain processes used more commonly across all fields. The study provides valuable advice for policy makers, entrepreneurs and practitioners to facilitate the development of smart cities for a safer environment and people as well as plants and animals.
Jummar et al. (2025) studied this question.