Privacy in Information-Rich Intelligent Infrastructure

Understand

Intelligent infrastructure will critically rely on the dense instrumentation of sensors and actuators that constantly transmit streaming data to cloud-based analytics for real-time monitoring.

• For example, driverless cars communicate real-time location and other data to companies like Google, which aggregate regional data in order to provide real-time traffic maps.
• Such traffic maps can be extremely useful to the driver (for optimal travel routing), as well as to city transportation administrators for real-time accident response that can have an impact on traffic capacity.
• Intelligent infrastructure monitoring compromises the privacy of drivers who continuously share their location to cloud aggregators, with unpredictable consequences.