Security Challenges and Future Privacy Perspectives in Cloud Computing for Smart City Environments

The context of smart cities and cloud computing is essential to understanding the broader landscape in which security challenges and privacy perspectives play pivotal roles in enhancing the quality of life for the residents in smart cities. Smart cities use information and communication technologies (ICT) to optimize resource efficiency. They leverage data, sensors, and connectivity to improve various aspects of urban living, including transportation, energy usage, public services, and sustainability. Cloud computing is an integral part of the infrastructure of smart cities that enables the collection, storage, analysis, and sharing of data and services. This research paper indicates many factors and challenges in the development of cloud-enabled smart city areas and provides potential recommendations. A guideline for future studies on this research topic has also been provided to serve the comparative analysis of the various findings and results.

I. Introduction

Rapid urbanization, new innovations in smart grid, man-machine, and machine-machine interface through machine learning protocols, interconnected and super-fast mobility, advanced healthcare system, online banking, and financial system, to name a few- Smart city is synonymous with interconnected rapid growth in which internet access is the life of the system and data is the new oil. Real-time system offers online data processing, but such a large quantity of data needs to be stored and processed through cloud storage. To improve the system's speed, cloud computing and artificial intelligence develop super-fast and accurate algorithms. Fig. 1. represents the key components of smart city incorporating various processes and devices. All the internet-based integration has also imposed a threat on the security of the whole system and hence security challenges and privacy landscape in a smart city set-up offer new insights and recommendations for addressing current and future challenges.