HCM City needs Europe’s experience and solutions to create smart cities (Source: pcworldvietnam) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City needs Europe’sexperience and solutions to create smart cities, a conference heard on June 30.
Speaking at the “Cyber security, Internet of Things andConnected Services towards a smart city” conference, organised by the EuropeanChamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham), Vo Quang Hue, vice chairman of EuroCham,said: “The Smart Cities subject is one of great importance for EuroCham Vietnam.EuroCham believes its members have a lot to offer for Vietnam’s sustainabledevelopment.
“The relevant know-how developed and tested in Europe andall over the world needs no introduction and we are very keen to promotecontacts between relevant companies and the Vietnamese Government for businessopportunities that can produce concrete results in terms of a smart future for Vietnam’scities.”
Philip Hung Cao, security solution consultant at Palo AltoNetworks, feared cyber security would be a nightmare for a smart city.
“All parts of a connected city like field components, datatransmission network, data processing and of a smart city like data aggregationconnectivity and smart processing face the threat of attack.”
He listed all the possible threats to smart cities likeeavesdropping/wiretapping, unauthorised use/access, tampering/alteration,theft, distributed denial of services (DDos) and loss of reputation due tohacking besides hardware failure/multifunction, software error, operator/usererror, electrical and frequency disturbance/interference, end of supportobsolescence, acts of nature, and environmental incidents.
To avoid the security threats, he suggested seven solutions:building a risk-based approach to cyber security; setting clear priorities;defining minimum ICT security baselines; sharing and co-ordinating threats andvulnerability information; building incident response capabilities; boostingpublic awareness, education and workforce training; and enabling public,private and academic co-operation.
Guru Mallikarjuna, vice chairman of EuroCham’s informationcommunication technology sector committee, and managing director, Robert BoschEngineering and Business Solutions Vietnam Co.ltd, said: “Internet of Things isthe basis for a broad smart city competency, and by 2020 four billion peoplewill be connected with 25 million applications, 50 trillion gigabytes of dataand 25 billion intelligent systems.”
He also listed challenges and solutions for mobility, energyand security, the three pillars of a smart city.
The challenges facing mobility are the need toreorganise/revitalise existing infrastructure and having a connected andefficient public transportation, he said.
The solutions are intelligent parking, fleet monitoring andmanagement and intelligent traffic management, he said.
The challenges facing energy supply include management ofpeak demand, environmental impacts, improvement of existing infrastructure andtheir solutions are energy management, smart grid (metering, software) andsmart water meters, he said.
The security challenges are public security (mass events,crime) and the impacts of natural disasters and video surveillance, emergencyservices and disaster response are the solutions, he added.
To grasp the opportunities in the context ofthe “fourth industrial revolution” and address various socio-economicissues, the Government has recently begun adopting measures to encourage citiesto become smart cities.
Actions and initiatives have been taken with respect toseveral information and communication technology breakthroughs which arecentral to this shift like Internet of Things, Data Flow, Connected Services,e-governance, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, robotics, andothers. -VNA
Speaking at the “Cyber security, Internet of Things andConnected Services towards a smart city” conference, organised by the EuropeanChamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham), Vo Quang Hue, vice chairman of EuroCham,said: “The Smart Cities subject is one of great importance for EuroCham Vietnam.EuroCham believes its members have a lot to offer for Vietnam’s sustainabledevelopment.
“The relevant know-how developed and tested in Europe andall over the world needs no introduction and we are very keen to promotecontacts between relevant companies and the Vietnamese Government for businessopportunities that can produce concrete results in terms of a smart future for Vietnam’scities.”
Philip Hung Cao, security solution consultant at Palo AltoNetworks, feared cyber security would be a nightmare for a smart city.
“All parts of a connected city like field components, datatransmission network, data processing and of a smart city like data aggregationconnectivity and smart processing face the threat of attack.”
He listed all the possible threats to smart cities likeeavesdropping/wiretapping, unauthorised use/access, tampering/alteration,theft, distributed denial of services (DDos) and loss of reputation due tohacking besides hardware failure/multifunction, software error, operator/usererror, electrical and frequency disturbance/interference, end of supportobsolescence, acts of nature, and environmental incidents.
To avoid the security threats, he suggested seven solutions:building a risk-based approach to cyber security; setting clear priorities;defining minimum ICT security baselines; sharing and co-ordinating threats andvulnerability information; building incident response capabilities; boostingpublic awareness, education and workforce training; and enabling public,private and academic co-operation.
Guru Mallikarjuna, vice chairman of EuroCham’s informationcommunication technology sector committee, and managing director, Robert BoschEngineering and Business Solutions Vietnam Co.ltd, said: “Internet of Things isthe basis for a broad smart city competency, and by 2020 four billion peoplewill be connected with 25 million applications, 50 trillion gigabytes of dataand 25 billion intelligent systems.”
He also listed challenges and solutions for mobility, energyand security, the three pillars of a smart city.
The challenges facing mobility are the need toreorganise/revitalise existing infrastructure and having a connected andefficient public transportation, he said.
The solutions are intelligent parking, fleet monitoring andmanagement and intelligent traffic management, he said.
The challenges facing energy supply include management ofpeak demand, environmental impacts, improvement of existing infrastructure andtheir solutions are energy management, smart grid (metering, software) andsmart water meters, he said.
The security challenges are public security (mass events,crime) and the impacts of natural disasters and video surveillance, emergencyservices and disaster response are the solutions, he added.
To grasp the opportunities in the context ofthe “fourth industrial revolution” and address various socio-economicissues, the Government has recently begun adopting measures to encourage citiesto become smart cities.
Actions and initiatives have been taken with respect toseveral information and communication technology breakthroughs which arecentral to this shift like Internet of Things, Data Flow, Connected Services,e-governance, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, robotics, andothers. -VNA
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