Smart cities and security: Need of the hour?

This is the central argument around smart cities: the promise of order against the risk of control.

A smart city at the expense of civil liberties is not a smart city; it is an Orwellian world.

Despite these challenges, smart cities offer significant security opportunities.

Smart cities can protect ordinary citizens and provide a deep sense of security.

To build a smart city without a smart society is to build a beautiful house on sand.