The purpose of the article is to introduce the discourse around advanced technologies that can make a city
a well-being city while also creating a surveillance city, an issue that is becoming important to smart city
researchers. Researchers seek to answer the question: where is the line between well-being and surveillance?
To answer this question, the article will explore Jeremy Bentham’s and Michel Foucault’s positions on panoptic
thought, as well as Bentham’s principle of greatest happiness and Janusz Czapinski’s onion theory of happiness.