Summary

Physical city assets continue to evolve with technology and city development. With the support of Internet of things (IoT), safeguarding, maintenance and management of city assets can enable new service experience for the diversity of users, including but not limited to citizen and city asset operators. The physical city asset monitoring collects data of the physical city assets and provides a set of services to smart city applications and other smart city systems.

Physical city assets monitoring may face security threats, such as tampering with physical city asset information, unauthorized sharing of city asset data, attack on open interface, attack on data visualization platform, etc. Sending illegal instructions or malicious codes to city physical asset equipment through asset management system has seriously affected the safety of city physical assets and city operation.

This Recommendation identifies security threats specific to the physical city asset monitoring, analyses its security requirements, and thus offers a reference of the physical city asset monitoring for the smart city key stakeholders to safeguard and improve services based on the physical city asset monitoring.