Impact of Privacy Issues on Smart City Services in a Model Smart City

With the recent technological development, there is prevalent trend for smart infrastructure deployment with intention to provide smart services for inhabitants. City governments of current era are under huge pressure to facilitate their residents by offering state of the art services equipped with modern technology gadgets. To achieve this goal they have been forced for massive investment in IT infrastructure deployment, eventually they are collecting huge amount of data from users with intention of providing them better or improved services. These services are very exciting but on the other side they also pose a big threat to the privacy of individuals. This paper designed and simulated a smart city model. This model is connected with some mandatory communication devices which also produce data for different sensors, Based on simulation results and possible threats for alteration of this data, it suggests solution for privacy issues which are to be considered at top priority to ensure secrecy and privacy of smart city residents.