Smart city technologies improve security measures through interconnected building systems, sensors, and predictive maintenance.
FREMONT, CA: Research shows that by 2050, 70 percent of the global population will inhabit cities and urban locations. As population density increases, cities will have to rely on interconnected infrastructure that offsets population challenges and improve safety and coordination.
Integrating smart technologies presents city planners with solutions to improve air quality, traffic and congestion management, building maintenance, and public security. Effective technological utilization shape quality of life with more coordinated urban space.
Infrastructural networking: Cities need to integrate commercial buildings with smart technology to improve their energy consumption and operational capacity to boost productivity. Smart buildings are more environmentally safe when they regulate and monitor energy usage. Integrated building technologies coordinate to make infrastructures safer through solutions like fire protection, data networks, telecommunications, access control, video surveillance, and lighting systems. Emerging solutions like artificial intelligence (AI) streamline smart technology management to reduce operational costs and IT workload.
Sensor data: Sensors in key locations collect real-time data that provide city officials with information to make decisions. Planners can leverage daily data to access energy consumption. Such data is important in mitigating the challenges of a building's water consumption, temperature changes, lighting conditions, weather, and humidity. Real-time data is also important in responding to fires and unauthorized intrusions. Sensors capture environmental information, not necessarily occupant data. There is lesser scope for cyber-attacks and data theft.
Using data from sensors to devise security solutions without accessing personal information is possible. Smart fire alarms and other video surveillance systems can mitigate events while detecting the number of current occupants by monitoring temperature and humidity.
Remote maintenance: Cloud-based platforms enhance data collection and analytics to streamline security measures through remote building maintenance and warning notifications. Building security systems provide advanced security solutions through remote maintenance solutions. It can develop solutions based on historical data to detect structural hazards and notify occupants and officials in advance.
A consistent system of effective predictive maintenance measures optimizes building security features without disrupting daily activities and making major investments.
