Smart City Project

Smart city technology is everywhere today. From small municipalities to major urban areas, you can find a wide variety of smart city projects designed to improve city services and deliver a better quality of life for city residents.

Smart city solutions use a wide range of data to monitor, manage and improve everything from traffic congestion and energy consumption to waste management and public safety. Smart technologies can dim street lights when no cars or pedestrians are present, help drivers find open parking spaces, reduce commute times by improving traffic flow, and efficiently reduce the consumption of electricity and water to save resources and reduce costs.

Every smart city project is built on an infrastructure of technology that includes:

• Sensors and Internet of Things devices that produce a constant stream of real-time data on conditions around the city.
• A diverse and high-performance network that can connect thousands or millions of sensors and reliably transmit the data they produce.
• A software analytics platform that can collect data, aggregate it and transform it into useful information.
• User interfaces that deliver actionable intelligence, making it easier for city employees to manage resources and residents to engage with city services.

To successfully implement and manage smart city projects, cities require technology partners that can help to cost-effectively deploy smart infrastructure. For many smart cities throughout the nation, Spectrum Enterprise is the ideal partner.

Spectrum Enterprise: a partner for smart city project infrastructure

Spectrum Enterprise provides local governments and the nation’s largest businesses with connectivity solutions that enable innovation. With more than 840,000 miles of fiber networks across the country, Spectrum is already providing infrastructure to for smart city projects nationwide. And with an additional $25 billion in additional capacity coming online by 2021, Spectrum is perfectly positioned to deliver the smart city framework that municipalities require.

Spectrum Enterprise delivers powerful connectivity solutions for smart city projects, including:

• A two-way, fully interactive digital network.
• Symmetrical connection speeds of up to 100 Gbps for local governments and enterprise clients.
• Gigabit connection speeds for homes and businesses.
• Thousands of WiFi hotspots that will soon be able to offer 1 Gbps connections.
• One of the country’s largest LTE cellular networks.

While no single vendor can provide the entire technology stack that smart city projects are built on, Spectrum is forging relationships and collaborating with other vendors to develop unified solutions. Offering cities a single vendor ecosystem rather than a complex set of independent contracts, Spectrum Enterprise is helping to simplify the acquisition and management of infrastructure for smart city projects.

Smart city projects made possible by Spectrum Enterprise

Partnering with municipalities nationwide, Spectrum is helping to build the cities of tomorrow with smart city projects that include:

• Intelligent transportation systems that reduce congestion and improve commute times while improving safety for pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers.
• Smart utilities and infrastructure such as smart grid and smart building technology, smart water and waste management, and smart city street lights sensors that monitor everything from traffic conditions, parking availability, weather conditions, criminal activity and the need for illumination.
• Public safety technology that helps to reduce crime through visual surveillance, improve transparency between citizens and police officers using wearable cameras, and monitor climate data to reduce the cost and impact of pollution.
• Civic engagement and development initiatives that make it easier for citizens to engage with city services and for residents, businesses and civic leaders to connect on community and economic development.

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