A Survey on Smart City Surveillance System

The significance of smart cities is constantly growing as the world’s population is moving towards urban areas in search of new opportunities for their development and the betterment of their future. This rapid influx of migrants has increased the pressure on the services deployment, traffic congestion within the city, prevention of criminal activities, energy usage and waste reduction. This can lead to the impending failure of the management system within the cities, looming with the burden of issues. These events have triggered the remediation of such issues through the development of smart cities projects. In order to obtain a realistic answer to this challenge, several pilot programs have been initiated around the world. Smart city surveillance systems are being designed to make the urban areas smart enough to monitor the changes and activities in their ambient environment. For the handling of such rapidly growing issues, the governments along with their supporting organisations, private organisations, other non-governmental agencies working non-profitable, academics and researchers and the general public of the nations must work collaboratively on innovative ideas with the use of different technological advancements. This paper provides a survey of the various smart city initiatives for the betterment of the living standards of the residents. Various open issues and challenges have been discussed. Solutions proposed in the field, for the remediation of the looming issues, have also been looked upon. Finally, the future perspective in the domain has also been reviewed and the impact of smart city surveillance system into the people’s lives has also been looked upon.