Smart City Security Market Global Report 2026

The smart city security market size has grown rapidly in recent years. It will grow from $33.19 billion in 2025 to $37.97 billion in 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.4%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to rising urbanization and expansion of smart city projects, increasing public safety concerns, growing deployment of connected surveillance infrastructure, rising investment in critical infrastructure protection, and increasing demand for centralized security operations.

The smart city security market size is expected to see rapid growth in the next few years. It will grow to $64.07 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.0%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to growing adoption of citywide security platforms, increasing demand for predictive threat detection, rising investment in resilient urban infrastructure, growing deployment of advanced emergency response systems, and increasing need for interoperable security solutions. Major trends in the forecast period include increasing deployment of integrated urban surveillance networks, growing adoption of centralized security management platforms, rising use of real-time threat detection systems, increasing integration of multimodal security monitoring solutions, and growing demand for automated incident response systems.

The growing deployment of biometric security solutions is expected to propel the growth of the smart city security market in the coming years. Biometric security solutions use unique physical or behavioral characteristics, such as fingerprints, facial recognition, iris patterns, or voice recognition, to verify and authenticate an individual's identity with high accuracy. The deployment of biometric security solutions is increasing as governments and organizations require stronger identity verification to improve public safety, reduce fraud, and protect critical infrastructure. As smart cities continue to adopt advanced digital technologies, biometric security solutions strengthen identity verification, enhance access control, improve public safety, and support efficient urban security management, making them an important component of smart city security. For instance, in March 2024, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a US-based government department, federal agencies conducted approximately 60,000 facial recognition searches, highlighting the increasing adoption of biometric identification technologies. Therefore, the growing deployment of biometric security solutions is driving the growth of the smart city security market.

Major companies operating in the smart city security market are focusing on developing innovative solutions such as edge AI surveillance platforms to improve real-time threat detection, public safety, traffic management, and intelligent urban monitoring. Edge AI surveillance platforms are intelligent security systems that process video data locally at the device instead of relying on cloud-based processing, enabling faster decision-making, lower latency, improved privacy, and reduced bandwidth consumption compared with conventional CCTV surveillance systems. For instance, in May 2026, WiredLeap Technologies Private Limited, an India-based deep-tech company, launched MagicBox, an edge AI device that transforms existing CCTV infrastructure into a network of autonomous AI agents. The compact device can host more than 150 specialized vision AI agents capable of monitoring, analyzing, and responding to events in real time across traffic management, public safety, civic governance, hospitals, campuses, and enterprise security applications. By utilizing existing CCTV infrastructure, MagicBox eliminates the need for extensive hardware replacement while enabling scalable, real-time video intelligence and automated incident response.

In September 2025, Blaize Holdings, Inc., a US-based provider of smart city security and public safety solutions, partnered with Yotta Data Services to advance a $56 million AI-powered smart public safety deployment across South Asia. Through this partnership, Blaize Holdings, Inc. and Yotta Data Services aimed to deploy AI-powered video surveillance as a service (VSaaS) across more than 250,000 public safety and monitoring endpoints, enabling real-time edge AI analytics for traffic management, license plate recognition, and public safety while supporting scalable hybrid AI infrastructure for government and enterprise applications. Yotta Data Services is an India-based technology company specializing in cloud, data center, AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and managed IT services.

Major companies operating in the smart city security market are Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Siemens AG, Hitachi Ltd., International Business Machines Corporation, Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corporation, Schneider Electric SE, Honeywell International Inc., Thales S.A., Johnson Controls International plc, Motorola Solutions Inc., Fortinet Inc., Hexagon AB, ADT Inc., Hanwha Vision Co. Ltd., NEC Corporation, Keenfinity Group GmbH, i-PRO Co. Ltd., AxxonSoft, Rhombus Systems Inc., Eagle Eye Networks Inc., Intelligent Security Systems Inc., Genetec Inc., Canon Inc., Robert Bosch GmbH, Verkada Inc.

North America was the dominant region in the smart city security market in 2025. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the rapidly growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the smart city security market report are Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa.

The countries covered in the smart city security market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

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