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Re: Googling around for stories about what cities are actually doing ....
Look for Jefferson City, MO, to eventually be making Smart Cities headlines. I met a couple of Jefferson City municipal honchos at a tech conference last year. While neither the conference nor our discussions included talk on Smart Cities, they are definitely very interested in advancing forward technologically from a municipal and county standpoint.
Re: Googling around for stories about what cities are actually doing ....
@JohnBarnes: Eventually, the Smart Cities issue is going to become a big data/data science problem. But for now, the area is still quite nascent--despite all of the advancements.
JohnBarnes
1/30/2017 9:46:22 PM
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Re: Googling around for stories about what cities are actually doing ....
For those who want to do that same experiment, my Google search was simply
AT&T AND "smart city" AND X
where X = a city from the list. I tried all 8; results were essentially identical because so far there are not very many stories about specific implementations, and many more about the program in general (which nearly all articles mention all 8 cities).
JohnBarnes
1/30/2017 9:44:12 PM
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Googling around for stories about what cities are actually doing ....
... I find lots of stories about remote monitoring and big data, and about mobile apps, but very little about how it's all hooking together. Not sure whether this is because it's still too early (if you're just putting in the tech to monitor water or electricity consumption or garbage hauling, linking them up is pretty hard to do in advance!) or because so far not too many cities or engineers actually have a good handle on what they're going to do (other than "something cool.")
clrmoney
1/30/2017 8:53:18 PM
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More smart cities in 2017
They have it the smart cities in eight locations and that's great so I say keep going to make things better.
Poll: The Fate of Smart Cities
Smart cities, from AT&T and elsewhere, are likely in your opinion...
1. ...to thrive in the coming decade.
2. ...to gain some traction, especially in communities with above average median incomes and other inherent advantages.
3. ...to not be a home run, but provide helpful functionality in certain areas, such as traffic control.
4. ...to bog down into a morass of small siloes of "smartness" that are very limited because of technical and other incompatibilities.
Please elaborate on your choice below.
Michelle
1/30/2017 1:47:34 PM
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Re: AT&T
Good question. I wonder how well it stacks up to Verizon specifically.
Ariella
1/30/2017 1:41:15 PM
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AT&T
< We have 30 million connected devices overall,; the most of any carrier out there, by far.> That does sound like quite a lot. I do wonder how much ahead it is of other carriers. Is it twice as many? Three times? I'm sure that would depend on which carrier we compare it to.
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