1. What Makes a Smart City? What Makes it Sustainable?

2. What is the Definition of a Smart City?
A smart city has been defined as a ‘knowledge’,
We might refer to a smart city as an improvement on today’s city both functionally and structurally, using information and
communication technology as an infrastructure.
A city that monitors and integrates conditions of all of its critical infrastructures including roads,
bridges, tunnels, rails, subways, airports, sea-ports, communications, water, power, even major
buildings, can better optimize its resources, plan its preventive maintenance activities, and monitor
security aspects while maximizing services to its citizens.

3. What Makes a Smart City?
What makes a city smart? How efficiently its public services operate? The digital savviness of its people? The sustainability of its infrastructure?
The key to becoming a smart city is creating a smart society through communication:
A smart city, for instance, involves communication between people,
people and agencies,
people and municipal spaces,
And with people always being the central focus.

4. What are the Goals of a Smart City? What are the Challenges?
Infrastructure - WiFi?
Sustainability?
Competitiveness?
What are the Goals of a Smart City:
Advanced Infrastructure - WiFi?
Sustainability?
Competitiveness?
Find the Pain of the people and the city and set the goal to alleviate it
Challenges
There are some key challenges that cities face when implementing a Wi-Fi solution.
The challenges are borne out of the needs that the solution must meet in order to provide a scalable, adaptable, remotely-managed and secure wireless networking environment – with analytics on how in-store W-Fi is influencing purchase and foot traffic
For a city, the needs are many and diverse, with primary ones being:
Scalability – Quickly and cost-effectively scale-up to support growing foot traffic, devices, applications and store sites without compromising on performance & security
Remote Management - Efficient remote management is essential due to lack of onsite IT staff
Performance - Always-on, seamless mobility with provision for network redundancy in order to keep customers longer in the stores
Security/Safety - Prevent unauthorized access to sensitive systems and data; maintain compliance/Alerts & Notifications
Visibility - Retrieve important data points on usage patterns for developing successful city engagement strategies
Adaptability - Adapt to diverse city needs, network architecture, equipment from other vendors as well as legacy systems distributed across different sites

5. What Makes a Successful Deployment?
User Experience
Reliability of the Network
Expectations – City/Users
Customization
Successful Plan:
Consider what may be required to be really successful at deploying a Wi-Fi network for a SmartCity solution, there are a few important components the we believe should be considered.
User experience, that is if the user experience is poor it will affect the number of people who will connect and that has a direct impact on safety and security - essentially limiting the effectiveness of the Wi-Fi network.  Remember the idea of people who may be traveling or tourists coming to a city who are limited in their ability communicate because they do not have a local Cellular Service solution - in this case, the Wi-Fi network can become their lifeline to communication and public safety information.
Reliability of the network - I usually referred to this in terms of coverage, capacity, and reliability. I would consider these to be some important aspects of building the Wi-Fi network from the perspective of whether it can really provide ubiquitous coverage as well as meet the expectations of the city and the subscribers who are going to be using it.
Concerning expectations, without having a solid user experience as well as meeting reliability is difficult to meet the expectations.  This makes it difficult when we are talking about limitation and the number of subscribers who might connect to the Wi-Fi network. The goal should be to have as many subscribers connect as possible which means that they will help grow the population of people who will use the network. Again, this has a direct impact on what the city can do in terms of capitalization.  Less people connecting means a lower inventory of impressions and also analytic information would be limited as well.
Lastly, there never seems to be a one-size-fits-all solution. with that in mind, we expect that there will be some customizations once the network is deployed.  There are quite a number of solutions that we can “bolt on” out of the box, so that expedites too customization process a lot.
So in the end:
build up smart infrastructure,
2) provide smart services,
3) advance smart services that were deployed
online communication,
more available civil administrative services,
public safety and smarter information security.

6. Enhance the City Experience
Improved Citizen Engagement
Engage Users with content
Customer Experience Apps
Smart Meters
RSS Feeds
Weather
Safety
Community Mapping
External Resources
External Link App
SDK for any web app
The Smart City Experience
“Smart Work Center”31 project, allowing the government’s
employees to work from 10 offices, as an example, located near them.
Community Mapping” - citizens will be able to raise
the issues of greatest concern to their neighborhood or community.
Smart meters provide home, office and factory owners with real-time reports of their electricity, water and
gas consumption.
Safety Service - utilizing state-of-the-art Location Based Services and

7. Enhance Safety
FEMA Emergency Notifications
to protect your citizens and visitors with enhanced alert messages which are compatible with FEMA’s IPAWS messaging
system.

8. Sustainability
Sustaining Infrastructure - Wi-Fi
To develop a Concession plan for WiFi networks, the network requires three key components:
Large inventory of impressions
Local vendor population
Monetization solution

9. Sustainability Solution Rollout Example for e.g. railway station
Planning and first steps
Define a portion of the inventory set aside for this Concession Program
Define appropriate rates for concessions
Invite local tenants
Example: Tenants inside the e.g. railway station such as bookstores, restaurants, drug stores etc.
Invite shop owners & vendors outside the railway station
Example: Nearby restaurants, hotels, motels etc.
Launch the Concession Program with first sponsors
Sustainability
Sustaining Infrastructure - Wi-Fi

10. Sustainability WiFi Value Proposition Example Inventory & Clients
500,000 monthly impressions of inventory
297 potential tenants / vendors / concessions
Minimum 55 impressions per day per client
Advertising Fees
150 USD - Client Setup Fee
999 USD - Client Monthly Fee (33 USD per day)
Revenue:
150,000 USD - Monthly Revenue
Sustainability
Sustaining Infrastructure - Wi-Fi

11. Mark Thompson – Sales
Garth Humphrey – Engineer