it analyze the flood of data to make the city safer and run more efficiently parliament will done what many believe that the brain helps is to see what's happening in every corner of our district it helps us to judge situations quickly and to react to them is to make people's lives and work more pleasant than that and . at the touch of a screen the monitors display information about all the district's buildings such as how many people live there and how accessible they are intelligent cameras sound the alarm in the event of any emergencies of course there's only a very thin line between running a smart city and wielding totalitarian control two hundred million cameras are said to be monitoring china's citizens with more being mounted every day and they're becoming increasingly smart one companies video shows what's already a reality the smart cameras keep tabs on vehicles number plates models and colors while tracking them through the city and compiling movement profiles citizens can be checked against data banks within seconds suspects identified behind windshields