Smart City Solutions

Local governments across the country and around the world are adopting smart city solutions that have enormous potential for reinventing the way municipalities deliver city services. From smart city lighting that dims to save energy when no one is around to smart waste management systems that alert sanitation crews when trash bins are full, smart city solutions allow governments to save money and improve safety while enhancing quality of life for residents and businesses.

Smart infrastructure is essential to successfully adopting and managing smart city solutions. A common set of technologies – sensors, networks, analytics software and user interfaces – serves as the foundation for all smart city solutions. The most successful implementations of smart technologies address the needs of smart city infrastructure first, creating a unified platform that each new smart city solution can be built on. When cities fail to address their infrastructure needs in an early and programmatic way, the result is patchwork of solutions and redundant infrastructure that not only costs more in the long run but limits interoperability, increases complexity and mitigates the potential of smart city technology.

The infrastructure components of smart city solutions

All smart initiatives are built on a similar smart city framework. Components include:

• A diverse collection of thousands or millions of sensors that collect data and monitor everything from traffic congestion and roadway conditions to energy consumption in smart buildings to the safety of power plants, bridges and public spaces.
• A reliable, diverse and high-performing network infrastructure that can cost-efficiently connect all these sensors and transmit the data they produce.
• Software and analytics that aggregate and transform sensor data into actionable intelligence.
• User interfaces that deliver information and intelligence to city employees, residents and businesses.

To implement smart city solutions, cities will inevitably need to partner with technology vendors to build the infrastructure they require. To avoid working with a complex collection of individual vendors offering multiple point solutions, savvy city managers are looking for vendor ecosystems that offer a total package of smart city solutions and infrastructure along with a single point of contact. That’s where Spectrum Enterprise comes in.

Spectrum Enterprise delivers connectivity for smart city solutions

Spectrum Enterprise is a leading provider of connectivity solutions for cities throughout the U.S. as well as many of the nation’s largest enterprises. With a fiber network that currently spans over 840,000 miles of infrastructure and plans to invest another $25 billion in additional capacity, Spectrum is the ideal partner for municipalities that are building infrastructure for smart city solutions.

To support the needs of smart cities, Spectrum Enterprise offers:

• Symmetrical connection speeds of up to 100 Gbps on a two-way, fully interactive digital network.
• Gigabit connections to homes and businesses throughout the Spectrum service area.
• Over 350,000 WiFi hotspots that will soon offer 5G and 802.11ax technology capable of wireless speeds of up to 1 Gbps.
• Mobile service on one of the country’s largest LTE cellular networks.

As a trusted technology partner, Spectrum is ready to help municipalities across the U.S. to implement the infrastructure and foundation they require to deploy smart city solutions today and tomorrow.

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