The White Paper highlights the Role of digital technologies for smart cities, discusses the key smart solutions, deliberates the need of Global Standardization and connectivity related aspects specific to smart cities, and tries to identify the framework for ICT Infrastructure for the success of Smart Cities Mission in India.
(Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, September 22)
Priya Joseph's key takeaways:
- Security and privacy are major themes across the whitepaper, with the word ‘security’ mentioned over 100 times.
- This highlights security in IoT and newer tech products and services is not just a feature, but a priority.
- The paper also calls for a framework to allocate a unique, secure and un-cloneable identity to every device connected to the ‘Civic and/or Critical Infrastructure’, and an Addressing Scheme to allocate unique addresses to each device connected in any network.