How Smart City Technologies

are Transforming the World

4G LTE & 5G Drive Expansion of Smart Cities
The ongoing rise of Smart City initiatives and the arrival of 5G are among many factors leading to more cloud-delivered and software-defined wireless WAN solutions for public sector agencies. The flexibility to connect,
monitor, and manage complex branch sites, data-driven vehicle fleets and mobile command centers, and a vast array of IoT and M2M devices from anywhere is accommodating new levels of network intelligence—and
communities everywhere are reaping the benefits.

School sites can choose 4G LTE for primary or

WAN failover connectivity, and provide constant
WiFi access on buses—keeping teachers and
students connected to the growing number of
online education tools upon which they rely.
Cloud-managed 4G LTE connectivity enables
traffic management agencies to be alerted to
and troubleshoot traffic light problems at
intersections much more cost-effectively, with
fewer truck rolls.

Schools
Traffic
Lights

Advanced remote surveillance captures and Metro buses with cloud-managed

analyzes video footage to pinpoint and cellular connectivity feature
prevent theft, illegal dumping, and other centralized management, vehicle
suspicious activity. 5G will make live-stream Public Buses tracking, telematics, real-time route
surveillance much more common. data for passengers, rider WiFi,
on-board CCTV surveillance, and
digital fare boxes.
Police leverage dual-modem Video
in-vehicle routers with Surveillance
SD-WAN services to enable
cellular-to-cellular failover
when a connection drops and
dynamic traffic steering
Law
Enforcement
when it deteriorates—
giving officers constant
access to mission-critical
applications.

WiFi-enabled, solar-paneled trash bins notify

waste management teams when they need to
be emptied, streamlining man-hours and fuel
and vehicle repair expenditures.

Waste
Energy & Management Always-connected digital
Utilities
signage on roadways can
be updated remotely, giving
Digital community members real-
Sensors identify leaks and other breakdowns Signage
time alerts during local
and send alerts to managers immediately,
emergencies.
saving organizations thousands of dollars.

Mobile connectivity in ambulances allows

healthcare professionals to leverage
telemedicine toolkits on the way to
hospitals, begin treatment ahead of time,
Ambulances
and ultimately save lives.

Fire
Apparatus

Water managers who use SCADA systems to

Immediate wireless access to building
collect and analyze water usage can remotely
schematics, HazMat data, and traffic
recognize patterns and challenges, manipulate
information reduces response time and Public Works water levels, send reports to field workers, and
delivers vital information while traveling
address problems.
to the scene of a fire.

“ Intersections are almost like a node in our environment. With

cellular, that node can help us plan for the future—traffic today,
live security feeds tomorrow.”
“ Providing free WIFI on our buses has been a huge hit with our
riders.”

—Kelli Badesheim, Executive Director, Valley Regional Transit

Traffic Public Buses
—John Rodriguez, Assistant Director of Infrastructure,
Lights
City of San Antonio

“ As our schools purchase more and more devices and our students
use these devices in the classroom, we are becoming dependent on
these devices and the connections. If I have a network outage at a
“ With officers securely connected to the network, we’re able to
keep them scattered out across the city where they should be.
If there’s an emergency situation, there is more chance that an
school, it is really going to be disruptive to the classroom Law officer will be close by to respond.”
environment.”
Enforcement
Schools
—Eugene Smith, Deputy Chief of Operations, Boise Police
—Shahryar Khazei, CIO, Los Angeles Unified School District

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