The initial plan was part of the Millennium Development Goals, which were accelerated in 2015 to achieve the 2030 Agenda, a goal of Agenda 21, but the plan did not quite work out as intended until the covid pandemic, when the infrastructure for smart cities, including biometrics, and ultra-low emission zones (“ULEZ”) and low traffic neighbourhoods, was rapidly implemented.
The infrastructure for smart cities includes telecommunications infrastructure, such as towers and cables, as well as data centres and servers. It also involves the installation of smart equipment in people’s homes, including smart meters, such as smart water meters and smart energy meters.
Other features of smart cities are
electric vehicles. The geofencing capability fitted into some electric
cars raises significant concerns as it enables the vehicles to be
remotely controlled by the government or military in the event of a
national emergency. If they wanted to implement a climate lockdown,
they could geofence the whole smart city, Adams said....<<<Read More>>>...
