Smart City Framework

As cities increasingly adopt smart solutions to urban challenges, putting the right smart city framework in place is the key to ensuring success, saving money and preparing for future development.

Many municipalities understandably start their journey to smart city initiatives in an uncoordinated way. Transportation departments may invest in smart parking technology, for example, while public works departments are exploring smart lighting and smart building technology. Often times these departments will move forward independently with these smart city investments, creating a patchwork of solutions, vendor relationships and redundant infrastructure.

All smart city solutions incorporate four types of technology: sensors to collect data, networks to convey it, software platforms to aggregate and analyze it, and interfaces that communicate actionable intelligence to city employees, residents and businesses. When cities have the foresight to develop an overarching vision for smart city framework, they can lay a foundation of underlying infrastructure that can serve and support a broad range of smart technology today and tomorrow, making it easier to integrate solutions, manage technologies and save time, effort and money.

Benefits of a unified smart city framework

When smart cities are built on a unified smart city framework, the possibilities for innovation and integration are endless. Smart street lighting projects, for example, might also include cameras that enable smart parking programs, monitors that track environmental conditions, and video surveillance that aids law enforcement. Smart kiosks designed to provide residents and visitors with helpful information can double as public WiFi hotspots while also providing emergency services and tracking pedestrian safety. Data from sensors throughout the city can flow across the same secure network and be aggregated and analyzed for a unified view of real-time conditions throughout the community.

The right smart city framework is one designed from the ground up to support a broad range of smart building, smart traffic, smart lighting and public safety initiatives. That’s where Spectrum Enterprise is already providing value to cities throughout the nation.

A smart city framework powered by Spectrum Enterprise

As a leading provider of connectivity solutions that support large business and city government throughout the country, Spectrum Enterprise has already built essential parts of a smart city framework in many urban areas. Having invested billions in smart city networks and with plans to invest billions more by 2021, Spectrum Enterprise is an ideal partner for municipalities that want to establish a powerful smart city framework.

To support the development of smart cities, Spectrum Enterprise provides:

• A two-way, fully interactive digital network with more than 840,000 miles of networking infrastructure.
• Symmetrical connectivity speeds of up to 100 Gbps for enterprise clients and government institutions.
• Gigabit Internet connections for homes and businesses in smart cities throughout the US.
• More than 350,000 WiFi hotspots that will soon be capable of wireless speeds of up to 1 Gbps.
• One of the nation’s largest LTE cellular networks.
• Partnerships with smart technology vendors that enable smart cities to work with a single, unified vendor ecosystem rather than a disparate collection of vendors and point solutions.

As a strategic partner, Spectrum Enterprise offers vision, expertise, local presence and the leading technology that municipalities need to lay the foundations for a smart city framework that will pay dividends for many years to come.

Learn more about Spectrum Smart Cities at www.spectrumsmartcities.com.