Smart Infrastructure

For municipalities adopting smart city technology, building a foundation of smart infrastructure first is critical to successful deployment.

In many cases, smart city solutions are built in isolation: the public works department may deploy technology for smart waste management using IoT sensors while the transportation department adopts smart traffic lights and the police force installs video surveillance at intersections. Ownership and oversight of these technologies is split among departments, resulting in a patchwork of solutions, vendor relationships and infrastructure – which makes integration and interoperability far more difficult.

Smart city initiatives are all built on infrastructure with a similar technology stack: sensors that collect data, networks that transmit it, software that analyzes it and interfaces that communicate it. When cities can establish a clear overarching vision for smart infrastructure that connects and supports every smart city project, they can more easily integrate technologies and data to clean greater insight while saving money, time and effort. Rather than a variety of disjointed technologies, cities get a unified and all-encompassing solution that can truly fulfill the promise of smart city initiatives.

The advantages of unified smart infrastructure

By laying a unified foundation of smart infrastructure before they adopt smart technologies, municipalities can:

• Aggregate data from more sources to reap greater insight. For example, when all technologies are united on the same smart infrastructure, systems that monitor the weather can talk to programs monitoring traffic patterns to produce better insight into how changing weather conditions may impact potential congestion.
• Save money by eliminating redundant technology. With a unified smart infrastructure in place, cities can avoid building out redundant infrastructure as multiple smart technologies are deployed simultaneously.
• Increase efficiency by sharing technology and data. A smart city lighting project might also incorporate sensors for smart parking, video surveillance and environmental monitors to feed data to multiple city departments simultaneously.

Ultimately, a single smart infrastructure will enable municipalities to speed transformation by deploying and integrating new technology more easily.

Smart infrastructure solutions from Spectrum Enterprise

Spectrum Enterprise is the perfect partner for cities seeking to implement a single smart infrastructure solution. In many cities, Spectrum already provides the smart infrastructure that powers smart city networks, sensors, software and interfaces. And with plans to invest $25 billion in greater capacity and additional cities, Spectrum is uniquely positioned to provide smart infrastructure solutions as more and more cities bring smart city initiatives online.

Spectrum Enterprise offers:

• A high-performance network. Spectrum’s two-way, fully interactive digital network provides symmetrical speeds of up to 100 Gbps for local governments and enterprise clients.
• Gigabit connections. Homes and businesses can access smart city infrastructure through fiber gigabit Internet connections.
• WiFi hotspots. Spectrum has over 350,000 WiFi hotspots across the nation that will soon capable of delivering wireless speeds of up to 1 Gbps.
• An LTE cellular network. Spectrum Mobile is built on one of the country’s largest LTE cellular networks.

Additionally, Spectrum is forging partnerships with other smart technology vendors to create a comprehensive and unified vendor ecosystem – a single smart infrastructure solution that allows cities to work with one comprehensive provider rather than a hodgepodge of vendors and technologies.

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