Cyber‐Physical Vulnerabilities of Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Cities

Smart cities are the future cities that meet a set of technical and nontechnical criteria. It is obvious that smart cities require extensive implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs). In particular, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have big roles to play to support smart city operations. It requires large‐scale deployments of WSNs around the city for sensing numerous events. A massive amount of information will then be collected from those WSNs for analyses and decision‐making. The most challenging part is to secure information from various forms of attacks. Detection and prevention procedures in response to cyber‐physical attacks are resource intensive. This chapter provides a tutorial overview of some specialized WSN applications and their cyber‐physical vulnerabilities in the context of smart cities. It also includes a discussion on possible mitigation approaches.