Smart City

The benefits of the smart city are tantalizing. From safer neighborhoods and less congested streets to cleaner air and more efficient energy delivery, smart city technologies are making urban areas more appealing places to live, work and play – which is why more cities are embarking on smart city initiatives every day.

When adopting smart city technology, the underlying infrastructure is the most important key to success. Many cities inevitably adopt smart technologies in a disjointed fashion, with various departments adopting standalone solutions that create a complex patchwork of vendor relationships and redundant infrastructure. But when cities have the vision and forethought to design a common smart city infrastructure from the ground up to support a broad range of smart technologies, they can improve and future-proof their investment by ensuring higher interoperability, increased efficiency, easier management and greater savings.

Building the smart city with Spectrum Enterprise

As one of the country’s premier providers of connectivity solutions for businesses and governments, Spectrum Enterprise delivers infrastructure, vision and expertise to help municipalities build a vibrant, multidimensional smart city that is ready for future innovation.

To support the connectivity needs of the smart city, Spectrum Enterprise provides:

• A two-way, fully interactive digital network with symmetrical speeds up to 100 Gbps for local government and enterprise clients.
• Gigabit connections to homes and businesses.
• Thousands of Spectrum WiFi hotspots that will soon include 5G and 802.11ax technology capable of wireless speeds of up to 1 Gbps.
• One of the largest LTE cellular networks in the nation.

Spectrum Enterprise has built more than 840,000 miles of network infrastructure throughout the nation and is continually investing in new technologies, laying the connectivity foundation that allow urban areas to move forward confidently with smart city initiatives.

Elements of Spectrum smart city infrastructure

No single vendor can deliver all the infrastructure the smart city requires. That’s why Spectrum has partnered with leading vendors to offer unified smart city solutions, enabling municipalities to work with a single, trusted partner rather than a complex series of isolated contracts.

Spectrum is currently working with cities across the nation on four critical areas of smart city infrastructure:

• Economic development & civic engagement, enabling residents, visitors, businesses and civic leaders to access city services/information online and to increase civic participation and engagement.
• Utilities & infrastructure, with smart building, smart grid, smart city lighting and smart water programs that help to conserve energy, and smart waste programs that keep communities safer and cleaner.
• Intelligent transportation, helping to shorten commute times, reduce congestion, simplify parking and ensure the safety of pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers.
• Public safety, with programs to reduce crime, improve data security, build trust between citizens and police officers, and monitor critical infrastructure, traffic, crowds, disasters and water and air quality to better protect the public and improve quality of life.

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