A smart city project
The University of Bristol in collaboration with the City Council and researchers are working for implementation a project to make a smart city. It is about that the city will have the own operating system. All kind of things will be connected to our smart phones, routers or laptops to make our lives more efficient.
Inhabitants can benefit of many informations about traffic flows, areas with high pollution through some devices which contains sensors. Also the government wants to make the city a playable place. This system is designed to be an open source and not a up down providing system.
Even there is a perspective of good things to happen in the life of locals with this project, there is an issue that can harm regarding the posibility that hackers can manipulate that sort of dates that are collected from the people who are connected through their devices.
The government thinks that will be more benefits than issues. The city will be more safe because roads and streets will be connected to software of municipal police for surveillance that can prevent any kind of criminal fact. Also there will be benefits in a healthcare areas because people who have need of support can reach more easily to healthcare centres through these new innovations in informatic technology.