Building smart cities is becoming a global trend. This is considered an important starting point to promote socio-economic development of countries in the future. Therefore, each country often chooses its own path to achieve its goals, depending on the context and development strategy. In Vietnam, on the basis of industrialization, Thu Dau Mot city of Binh Duong province started implementing the smart city program in 2015 to create breakthroughs in the province's socio-economic development, and at the same time build a The company is preparing to enter the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 and has initially achieved certain successes. On the basis of a survey of the practice of building a smart city model by Eindhoven (Netherlands), the article points out a number of problems that are suggestive for Thu Dau Mot in the process of building a smart city in the coming time.