The Connected Smart City

Russ Vanos
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Global Software, Services and Smart Cities
SMART CITIES. SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.

As cities around the world face aging infrastructure,

growing urban populations, government mandates, and
shrinking budgets, managing energy and water is critical
to ongoing economic prosperity, resource conservation
and social well being.
BUILDING A SMARTER CITY
What does it take?

Engaged, Collaboration and The willingness to act,

visionary cooperation – the to make decisions,
leadership. willingness to share to make a declaration.
information and
technology.
ENERGY. WATER. CITIES.
Smart utility and smart city applications running on one network

» Multi-application, unified network

» Leverages existing networks:
utility, telecom (cellular),
cable (coax, fiber)
» Yields most economic and
highest performing option
» Utilities are uniquely qualified to build
and deploy dedicated infrastructure
networks
LEVERAGE THE POWER OF THE CLOUD

FAST IMPLEMENTATION VELOCITY OF LOWER TOTAL COST

TIME INNOVATION OF OWNERSHIP

ABILITY TO SCALE UBIQUITOUS ENHANCED SECURITY

INSTANTLY
prioritize open-standards network infrastructure
BC Hydro
A single – Extending Value with anetwork
multi-service/multi-purpose Multi-Application Network: BC
creates the foundation
Hydro, which
for a smart serves
city. With 1.9 million
sensors electricity
and customers
intelligence embedded throughout
in everyBritish
Columbia,
device, theCanada,
network is taking advantage
provides the backbone of an
forInternet Protocol (IP)-
all city connections.
based, multi-application network to improve business operations and
offer greater value to their customers. The network enables new
applications and capabilities developed internally or by third party
developers, such as distribution automation monitoring, intelligent
demand response, smart street lighting and electric vehicle charging
stations and improved outage detection and restoration, all over a
common network for city services.
leverage the power of the cloud
Envision
Data Charlotte –
is instrumental toDriving
the success
Sustainability
of a smart Goals
city. Smart
withdevices
Data: Using
provide water,
energy, real-time
waste
data,and
and airanalytics
quality data,
turnsEnvision
that dataCharlotte,
into actionable
a
insights thatsmart
successful can be
cityshared
initiative
across
in Charlotte,
city departments.
NC, is connecting people
with information to drive sustainability goals. By driving awareness and
behavior change, Envision Charlotte is reducing waste in the city’s
urban core. Since 2011, the initiative resulted in a 16.4 percent
reduction in energy usage, which equals about $17 million in savings.
empower sustainability
Glendale
A smart cityWater & Power – city.
is a sustainable Promoting
From providing
Conservation:
incentives
Glendale
to reduce
energy,&water
Water Power,andlocated
carbonin footprints
Southern to
California,
integratingwas
renewable
the first American
energy,
empowering
utility and municipality
citizens totobereceive
environmental
smart grid
stewards
stimulusthrough
funding. programs
The city is
and technologies
using smart grid and
helps
smart
create
water
a more
technologies
resourceful
to promote
city culture.
conservation
efforts and help citizens better monitor and understand their energy and
water usage.
deliver safe and reliable resources
Malta – and
Energy Thewater
World’s
resources
First Smart
are critical
Island:to aLocated
city’s prosperity andof
in the heart
sustainability.
the Mediterranean,
A smart
Malta
city is
ensures
a grouptheof safe
smalland
islands
reliable
thatdelivery
is homeofto
energy and
roughly 400,000
waterpeople,
resources
putting
through
an immense
modernized
straininfrastructure,
on energy and leak
detection
water management.
and sensing Totechnologies.
ease this burden, Malta rolled out smart grid
and smart water technology to achieve its smart island goals.
10 Tenets of a Connected Smart City

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