In December, at the height of the pandemic, the city of Las Vegas lit up a fixed wireless network covering 65 square miles and offering download speeds up to 35 Mbit/s. The city's initial goal was to connect homebound students to their teachers in cases where they might not have a home Internet connection.
Now, as pandemic restrictions ease, the city and its network vendors are looking for ways to expand and improve the network in ways that would position Las Vegas as a "smart city."
Weiterlesen: US: Nevada: How Vegas built an LTE network in 45 days, and what it might do next
Dive Brief:
- Three-quarters of government IT decision-makers cite migrating and managing data from legacy systems to the cloud as a challenge, but 60% think it is important to modernize IT infrastructure to improve efficiency and security, according to an IBM survey released Friday.
- Half of respondents cited performance issues as a barrier to cloud migration, 38% said training users on new systems slowed modernization and 26% blamed bandwidth costs as a concern. Morning Consult collected responses from more than 500 government IT decision-makers on behalf of IBM.
- "Jumping in without a plan, without an understanding [of] how they want to go about it, leads to failures, which leads to folks not wanting to modernize," Sanjay Sardar, Senior Vice President, Digital Transformation and IT Modernization at SAIC and a former federal CIO, told CIO Dive.
Weiterlesen: US: In modernization, security is a barrier and an incentive
The $2m project is the result of a matched federal grant between the US Department of Transportation and Cary, and is the first of its kind in the US state.
The town of Cary has embarked on a £2m project to upgrade its traffic control system with the latest IoT, smart cities technology to improve safety, maximise responsiveness and efficiency of traffic for all users.
Weiterlesen: US: North Carolina town deploys smart city technology to improve safety
AT&T on Tuesday said it signed a letter of intent with real-estate owner and developer JBG Smith to build the first at-scale 5G smart city in the U.S.
A definitive agreement is expected in the coming weeks.
The 5G smart city is planned for the Washington, D.C., area, in National Landing – described as central location of three neighborhoods including Pentagon City, Crystal City and Potomac Yard (and home to Amazon’s second headquarters).
Weiterlesen: US: AT&T, JBG Smith disclose plans for at-scale 5G smart city
Projects ranging from the use of AI and machine learning to inspect roadways to a housing rights challenge were among those highlighted as making “unprecedented progress”.
Solutions that address digital equity, accessibility and civic engagement are among those recognised in the IDC Government Insights fourth annual Smart Cities North America Awards (SCNAA).
Weiterlesen: Awards recognise smart city progress made by North America municipalities