Network video supplier Axis Communications has published a whitepaper that details the benefits and challenges for smart buildings and smart city management, and highlights a methodology to address associated security risks.
The Smart buildings & smart cities security whitepaper, produced in association with Virtually Informed and Unified Security, provides an in-depth review of the topic, addresses key questions and provides recommendations for ensuring that benefits of smart building and cities will be realised.
The promise of future cities and buildings built around a smart vision to reduce waste, drive efficiencies and optimise resources is great, but comes with many inherent challenges, with security being among the most significant, according to the whitepaper.
Smart technology enables the collection and analysis of data to create actionable and automated events that will streamline operations, but the whitepaper notes that to deliver this at far greater scale means bringing together a large number of very different systems and empowering them to communicate freely with access to important and often sensitive data.
Device interoperability will be a crucial component…
