Smart City Security (IoT): Security threats and vulnerabilities faced by smart road traffic control systems

Smart City Security (IoT)

SMART CITY SECURITY (IOT)
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Smart City Security (IoT): Security threats and vulnerabilities faced by smart road traffic
control systems
ABSTRACT
A smart city is designed, developed and
controlled with the help of IoT technology and it
has become an emerging phenomenon with
rapid urban growth and boost in the area of
information technology. Smart cities use IoT
technology to manage traffic signals, monitors
home appliance and handles transportation. The
main aim of this research paper is to address the
security-related issues of the smart city and
discuss the concept of IoT in the smart city. A
literature has been conducted in this paper to
analyse the concept of the internet of thing in
smart city and security issues occur in traffic
control and vehicular communication. Firewall
software, biometric recognition, cryptography
and encryption technology all these security
tools can be involved to address the security
threats.
Keywords: IoT, smart city, encryption, cyber
–attack, and cryptography.
INTRODUCTION
A smart city is defined as an advanced city that
involves modern information technologies for
communication purpose such as IoT and wireless
networks. Internet of thing plays an important in
the sector of the smart city that provides a
platform to transfer data or information from
one location to another [1]. The main objective
of this research paper is to analysis the
drawbacks and security threats faced by the
smart city (IoT) and provide the prevention
tools to secure vehicle communication and
smart traffic system. Malware attack,
ransomware and wanna cry, denial of service
attack and data breach are common security
issues occur into traffic control system [2]. This
report is explaining the concept of IoT in the
smart city, challenges faced by smart city and
mitigation tools to secure the smart city. To
improve the effectiveness of this research a
literature review will be conducted that collect
the views of other experts, research gap in
previous investigation and findings of these
studies which help to identify the key factors
that increase the security issues related to smart
traffic control [10].
Research Questions
 What are security threats and
vulnerabilities related to the smart
traffic control system and how to
mitigate them?
CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF EXISTING
LITERATURE
The term smart city is defined as a new industry
that uses information and communication
technology along with the environment of urban
areas. Internet of thing is an advanced
technology that has the ability to improve the
communication system and it involves internet
connectivity to transfer data or information.
There are numbers of researcher investigated on
the topic of smart city security and they
analysed that lack of security is one of the
common problems that increases cyber-attacks
and data breach problems. It is observed that
many urban cities faced the transportation