Smart City Use Cases and Development Notes

By Wade Sarver

The Smart City Use Cases book is a collection of Smart City Use cases. The purpose of this book is to give you some advice and direction on smart city development. See what other cities have tried and done, successfully, then create an idea of what is possible, how to achieve it. Then ask for help.

Why not take a look at what other cities have done, how they got to where they are, why they did it, and the results.

Learn from what others have done. Why make the hard mistakes of other smart cities.

Are you looking for a partner or a cost-effective way to roll out your city?

Do you want to know how they got buy-in from their community?

Get some help right here!

If nothing else, this will save time doing all the research while preparing to go on the smart city adventure.

Learn this:

• What is a Smart City?
• How do you roll out broadband?
• What have other cities done to develop broadband initiatives?
• How can I learn from their mistakes and successes?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wade Sarver
• Release date: Nov 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386359784

Wade Sarver

About Wade Wade Sarver is a blogger and podcaster at www.wade4wireless.com and an author of several nonfiction tech books, a solutions consultant TechFecta, www.techfecta.com, as well as a solution manager for Nokia. To reach out to Wade you can email at [e-mail] or [e-mail] or twitter @Wade4Wireless.

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Copyright

First Edition © 2017 by Wade Sarver. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the author.

I am not a lawyer or an actively certified safety expert. This book is completed based on research and my experiences. Safety processes and procedures are constantly updated and improved over time. The material contained is for reference only and may include products, information, or services by third parties. I do not assume responsibility for any third-party material referenced in this book.

This document is a guide to help people and not a guarantee that you will do everything properly. By reading this, you agree that myself and my company is not responsible for the success or failure of your business decisions relating to the information presented in this guide.

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Cover and design by Wade Sarver

Dedication

I would like to thank my wife for all her support and patience.

Thanks to her, I continue to drive ahead with my own ventures.

Thanks to my son Dylan for showing me what drive really is.

Special thanks to David Hooper for showing me the way.

Thank you, for letting me reach your daily life.

Thank you, Stephen King, for letting me know I must work at this every day.

Table of Contents

Contents

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Contents

Thank you!

Who is Wade?

Preface

Introduction:

What’s been done?

What is a Smart City?

Typical Approaches to Smart City Initiatives

Solve Problems

Grant Money

Future Proofing

Resources:

Smart City Initiatives

The US Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge

NYC Planning Document called One New York

The Smart City Playbook by Nokia and Machina Research

Smart City Focus

Smart Cities Council

Smart City Research Case Study Overview

What to look for:

Smart Cities Council and Cisco

Smart City Case Studies

Chula Vista, Ca

Kansas City

Dallas

Guadalajara, Mexico

Smart City Project Notes

India Smart Cities

Singapore

Santander, Spain

Yinchuan, China

General notes

IDC Government Insights:

Multiple Case Studies from National League of Cities, (NLC), Trends in Smart City publication.

Case Study Chicago:

Case Study Philadelphia, Pa

Charlotte, NC

San Francisco, Ca

Columbus, Oh, Smart City report

Smart City Cleveland

Smart City Atlanta

Safe City Highlights

Indonesia

Singapore

Additional Asian Countries

Safe City Summary

Things to Consider

What is MetroLab?

It’s not a Kiosk, It’s a Smart Hub

Smart Lighting

Next Century Cities Membership

Smart City Planning Audits

Mounting assets (lampposts, wood poles, telephone poles):

Underground assets:

Fiber assets:

Building tops and Towers:

Billboards:

Parking Garages:

Street Furniture:

Wireless Backhaul:

Data Collection:

Notes:

Resources:

Smart City Broadband Initiatives

Primary

Partial

Facilitator

Who buys broadband, really?

Pricing matters!

What about Wi-Fi?

Not all Deployments are a Success!

When Incumbents fight Back!

Some States Prohibit Public Networks!

City Strategies for a Broadband Initiative

Let’s Review

Resources

Smart City Other Services

What is IOT for the Smart City?

Resources:

Glossary

Summary

Congratulations!

Thank You Again!

Learn more! Books my Wade!

More about Wade

Thank you!

Thank you for your purchase of this book. I truly appreciate your patience and your perseverance I this hi-tech world. It motivates me when people are willing to invest the time to learn and improve. I also appreciate that you could have chosen any book and you picked this one! Thank you! I truly appreciate it. Now let’s get busy, you didn’t think I was going to suck up to you for the entire book, did you? We have stuff to learn! Pay attention!

Who is Wade?

Wade’s been in the tech industry for over 30 years, and over 25 doing wireless. He has worked on LMR (Land Mobile Radio) systems, 2-way radio, public safety, paging, trunked systems, cell systems, IMTS, and so much more.

He’s had jobs in the industry that range from RF engineer, microwave engineer, tower climber, technical sales, sales engineer, manager, field engineer, broadcast engineer, manager, vice president, consultant, solutions manager, sales, and the list goes on. Regardless of the title, improving the tech industry has been a priority.

Now we have so many wireless choices, but the number of players has dropped. In the USA, the carriers rule 80% of the industry while everyone else tries to find their space. Wi-Fi is the license-free alternative that helped other get creative and deploy in very small ways. As you can see the free space worked since most people rely on Wi-Fi to connect to the internet.

Many people say that public safety is the exception, and it was until FirstNet partnered with AT&T to build a public safety system for the strapped cities, counties, and states.

While wireless is awesome, we need fiber. It enables us to connect to that other great invention, the internet. The internet opens the world for all to learn. It can be a waste of time, so pay attention to how you use your time. It is hard sometimes, but we should be aware of how we spend our time.

Learn more at www.wade4wireless.com or at www.techfecta.com.

Preface

Your one of the people that I talk to curious about what has been done. Most cities and businesses are trying to understand what has been done. We believe if we see a model then we know we can do it as well. That is the plan. How do we know what has been done? We research. That is why this book is valuable. It has done the research for you with references to the original documentation. I hope it finds you and you find solutions to your problems.

As you read this book, think about these questions:

1)  What did they do that was good? (What went right?)

2)  Why did you choose this technology for this solution?

3)  What went wrong?

4)  What did you think would be hard, but was easy?

5)  What did you think would be easy, but was hard?

6)  What did you have to give up to keep moving ahead?

7)  Did it pay off? Did you get the results you expected?

8)  Would you do it again?

9)  What did you like best?

10)  What did you like the least?

I’ll ask you again at the end of the book, but these questions are here to make you think about what the other cities did and if you can apply it. Maybe you have a similar problem that you can apply a similar solution to. Maybe you can find synergies between what they have done, and you need. It may help you get buy-in form the rest of the team members because they know it has been done. These case studies are real and help make us feel anything is possible.

Introduction:

When planning for the technology to be used for your smart city, you should consider several things. One is to see what has been done. What’s real and what’s not. How they did their deployment. Most of all, look at the lessons learned. It is a good idea to learn from others and their mistakes as well as what went right for them.

You deserve to have all your references in one place to help you build the library of case studies. This is a reference to help you consolidate all that information into one book.

As you look through here, use the links to gather more information and learn from experience.

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What’s been done?

Who cares about the reason why? Everyone! The taxpayers, the residents, local businesses, and the constituents who reside in the city. They need to understand the greater good. It matters to them! The businesses in the city because they want to know what is in store for future business growth. And of course, all the people who run the city, the council members who are going to commit time and money out of their resources to make this happen. They need to believe in it. The goal of the first part of this book it to help them see what has been done, where the money may come from, and how to proceed. If they can see other cities have done something similar or if they had a greater vision, then you can help move in that direction.

I am in no way saying that you need to do what they have done, I merely want to provide examples to get the idea creation process started. Some of these things may seem out there, but the point is to be creative and to show you what’s important to other cities even though they may not be important to your city.

Good ideas often are not created by the mayor’s office or the council members. Rather the residents, local businesses, or even tourists have some of the best ideas. Those ideas may be to improve security or day to day living or

Reviews for Smart City Use Cases and Development Notes

[dyanaguirre · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Not detailed description of each Smart Use Case but it is clear to trigger more research. Thank you