Future Smart Societies’ Infrastructures and Services in the Cyber Environments

Abstract

We hear every day about new services and applications that citizens can use for different purposes and needs around the world in real time every day. Digital innovations in the software and applications of information systems used by the information society have contributed to this rapid development. At the same time, the rapid technological development of new terminals as well as new smart devices and sensors has made it possible to develop and offer completely new services to citizens. In the digitalising intelligent society of the future, there is also a need for various services that can be used by service developers, administrators, responsible organizations, and stakeholders to maintain and develop the infrastructures of the intelligent society and related services. Although the development of the digital world is a positive thing, there is another side to the story. There are many security threats in this kind of environments. The latest challenges for the operating environment are heterogeneous tele-communication networks where new devices and systems are seamlessly interconnected. These systems are now coming into smart homes, smart buildings and into marketplaces, into smart hospitals, ships terminals, airports, train stations, open areas, cars, trains and various control and energy systems. This paper describes a society where all important functions interact with each other through digital networks. The paper provides a technical outlook and enterprise architecture level pictures of smart cities infrastructures for the developers and to the designers.