Improved public safety means that not only do smart cities become more attractive to business, but businesses that operate in smart cities are able to do so more securely and with fewer safety-associated costs and risks.

   Crime and disaster can result in injuries to employees and damage to business infrastructure

   Mitigating reduced earnings and lost productivity.

   Mitigating reduced earnings and lost productivity.

   Lower crime rates and resiliency to natural disasters like fires and floods aid cities in the competition for businesses and jobs, and they help ensure that once businesses do locate in a city, they can operate safely.

   Attract business and talent

   smart public safety should also deliver a freedom from the pain and suffering that crime and other incidents cause to citizens

   There is an intangible but very real value to the feeling of safety in a community – when people feel safer, their lives seem more livable.

   Making people ‘feel’ safer and mitigating pain and suffering

   Lowering crime rates with more resolution and more prevention