Smart City Infrastructure

Smart city initiatives are undoubtedly improving quality of life in urban areas throughout the country. From smart building technology that conserves energy to smart traffic programs that reduce commute times, smart city infrastructure is transforming the way municipalities manage and deliver a wide range of city services.

Despite the benefits, the transition to smart city technology is neither quick nor easy. Many cities will inevitably transition to smart technology in a piecemeal way, with individual departments adopting specific technologies and infrastructure independent of each other. This approach will likely create challenges to integration, interoperability and management down the road. To truly reap the value of smart technology, cities are wise to develop an underlying smart city infrastructure that can unify smart solutions in every department to save time, effort and money as new smart city technology comes online each year.

Elements of smart city infrastructure

Though there is no official blueprint for putting smart solutions in place, smart city infrastructure tends to include four specific layers of technology:

• Sensors that collect data from a wide range of sources like smart lighting, smart meters and smart building technology.
• A high-performance network that efficiently conveys data.
• Analytics and software that aggregate data and transform it into actionable intelligence.
• Interfaces that present city employees, residents and businesses with useful information and recommendations.

Many cities already have access to one element of smart city infrastructure: high-speed, high-bandwidth networks that combine fiber, wireless technologies and mobile broadband. And while no single vendor can provide solutions that span the entire smart city technology stack, Spectrum Enterprise has been investing in smart city infrastructure and forging partnerships with other providers to present cities with a single vendor ecosystem that can deliver comprehensive smart technology and a simpler relationship with a unified solutions provider.

Smart city infrastructure starts with Spectrum Enterprise

Spectrum Enterprise is a leading provider of connectivity solutions for many of the largest businesses and city governments nationwide. As a strategic partner, Spectrum offers vision, expertise and local presence along with smart city infrastructure that can help smart cities build practical, integrated and vibrant solutions that transform city services and improve quality of life.

Spectrum provides a two-way, fully interactive digital network that delivers symmetrical speeds of up to 100 Gbps to power smart city infrastructure. Additionally, Spectrum offers gigabit connections to homes and businesses, one of the largest LTE cellular networks, and thousands of local WiFi hotspots that will soon be capable of providing 1 Gbps wirelessly. With plans to invest $25 billion in infrastructure for smart city networks over a five-year period, Spectrum Enterprise is a strategic partner that is already laying the foundations of communications infrastructure for the smart cities of today and tomorrow.

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