The future of cities is taking a bifurcated direction today. One direction is the physical direction of improving infrastructure, such as the power grid and broadband connectivity to support new applications, and the other is a virtual direction, which will include creating metaverse applications.
With new technology and applications constantly emerging on the horizon, today’s smart cities need to address updating their infrastructure to insure they can support new corporate facilities requiring mission-critical applications in their daily operations. Those physical layers are also the foundation for virtual applications which require a stable and secure virtual platform to be operational and successful. Resiliency and security are dual cornerstones which need to be well-established within the total framework of a smart city.