{"id":2718,"date":"2018-05-10T14:03:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T18:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2018-05-10T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T18:03:54","slug":"what-exactly-is-a-smart-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2018\/05\/10\/what-exactly-is-a-smart-city\/","title":{"rendered":"What Exactly IS a &#8220;Smart City&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A smart city can be described as a city that incorporates the capabilities of web connectivity, analytics, mobile solutions, sensors, data collection and other technology. This can include surveillance systems utilized by law enforcement, smart congestion-mitigating traffic systems, LED streetlights equipped with motion sensors, smart grids and smart water systems.<\/p>\n<p>A smart city contains a myriad of objects that receive, collect and transmit data.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of smart city data collection is to enable the creation of innovative new products and services that improve the quality of life in a given smart city. Smart cities have the potential to solve a variety of municipal issues. But, as is the case with technology in general, these cities are also vulnerable to serious threats.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/government\/rapidly-emerging-smart-cities-and-the-associated-risks\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A smart city can be described as a city that incorporates the capabilities of web connectivity, analytics, mobile solutions, sensors, data collection and other technology. This can include surveillance systems utilized by law enforcement, smart congestion-mitigating traffic systems, LED streetlights equipped with motion sensors, smart grids and smart water systems. A smart city contains a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,23,29,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-international","category-local","category-misc","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}