The highly sophisticated and urbane smart cities have gained wider traction among the urban people who prefer to embrace technology and enjoy luxurious and stylish homes. India's urban population has increased from 11.4 per cent in 1901 census to 34 per cent in 2017 states The World Bank. These smart cities have given a new dimension to the urbanization. According to Assocham and EY reports, IoT would have the potential to acquire nearly two billion connections in India which would gather profit close to $11.1 billion by 2022. Furthermore, the reports also point out that by 2022, about five mobiles connections per second are approximated to join the power of the internet.

Now the smart city is gradually transforming into a hyperconnected city that would be powered by IoT, artificial intelligence, data analytics and other advanced technologies. Embracing this technological advancement would aid in creating new business opportunities as well as provide enhanced amenities to customers.

Building hyperconnected cities require advanced technology adoption and four crucial technologies that are adopted by more than 90 percent of hyperconnected cities are IoT, public wifi, mobile applications and cloud. By utilizing these technologies, the hyperconnected cities could provide high performance and enable real-time communication among residents, businesses and other services. Furthermore, while adopting such technologies, the government could follow some pre-defined strategies pertaining to which technologies they would take up. 

Leveraging advanced use of data, hyperconnected cities produce more value and optimizing services. These include embracing advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and integrating the results obtained with other solutions. Most of the hyperconnected cities collaborate with various businesses, local stakeholders, and educational institutions to acquire knowledge that would help in improvising the services ranging from health assistance to smart waste management to service the client better.

Lastly, these cities pay close attention to cybersecurity. They significantly invest in cybersecurity to ensure safety across their data networks. Hyperconnected cities tend to have wider exposure to the digital world and would be more prone to cyberattacks. Amid investing in various security tools and taking various security measure these cities experience higher cyberattacks. Thus, these cities have opted for a layered security approach as a measure to reduce cyberattacks.

The technology advancement smart cities are upgrading to hyperconnected cities with improved facilities to ease the lives of people. With future innovations, these advancements would further improvise.