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With the rising population, the entire globe faces enormous urban development since most of the population concentrated on settling in large cities for a better life. However, the problem is how to utilize available resources although preserve the high protection in the transmission of data records. When employing information tools, we should keep safety measures in the transmission of information and employ secure knowledge like IoT, edge and cloud computing, and other ground-breaking solutions to assist citizens and the government. In some situations, there is a chance for criminals can access individual personality information while information is transmitting among devices by employing unofficial methods. Longestablished security techniques are not so successful in securing transmissions in smart city environments. Most smart city appliances utilize different transmission techniques like 2G, 3G, 4G, Bluetooth, 6LoWPAN, infra-red, and various radiofrequencies. To provide safety measures and confidentiality while transmitting, blockchain is accountable for every transaction, it stores every record, and distributed ledgers behave like a decentralized database. Besides, digital signature and timestamp are incorporated with every record in the ledger.