Smart Cities Playbook: Building Your Connected Community Why CTIA Created This Playbook
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Smart Cities Playbook: Building Your Connected Community Why CTIA created this Playbook CTIA represents the U.S. wireless communications industry and companies throughout the mobile ecosystem. Our members provide the wireless networks, devices, equipment and solutions that Table of contents make smart cities possible. This includes the high- speed mobile broadband and services behind video, streaming and cloud computing; the wireless networks Section I: What Could Your City Be? 4 and technologies for connected and autonomous vehicles; and the communications technology Section II: Welcome to Smart City, USA 10 and infrastructure of smart grids, which enable efficient, dependable control of energy consumption. Smart Public Services 12 CTIA members are also the drivers of 5G, the next generation of wireless. As advanced networks roll Smart Transportation 19 out across the nation, 5G will allow up to one hundred times more simultaneous connections, up to one Smart Utilities 28 hundred times faster connectivity, and lower latency, which is key for innovations like autonomous vehicles. Section III: Starting Your Smart Cities Journey 38 As we look ahead to the exciting possibilities of smart cities technologies, CTIA is committed to helping Glossary 48 communities of all sizes become the cities of the future. We see becoming a smart city as an achievable, accessible, desirable Goals of This goal for communities of all sizes and states of readiness. We hope you find this Playbook a helpful resource for: + Getting started + Familiarizing yourself with Playbook technical terms and concepts, + Identifying solutions that are a particularly in the area of wireless good fit for community challenges technology and infrastructure + Prioritizing projects based on the + Bringing smart cities projects needs of businesses and residents to life—smoothly, affordably © 2019 CTIA-The Wireless Association. 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All Rights Reserved.” on all subsequent pages. 3 CTIA Smart Cities Playbook Table of contents Table of contents Section I: What Could Your City Be? 4 Section I: What Could Your City Be? 4 Section II: Welcome to Smart City, USA 10 Section II: Welcome to Smart City, USA 10 Smart Public Services 12 Smart Public Services 12 Smart Transportation 19 Smart Transportation 19 Smart Utilities 28 Smart Utilities 28 Section III: Starting Your Smart Cities Journey 38 Section III: Starting Your Smart Cities Journey 38 Glossary 48 Glossary 48 We see becoming a smart city as an achievable, accessible, desirable goalWe see for becoming communities a smart of all city sizes as and an achievable, states of readiness. accessible, We desirable hope you findgoal forthis communities Playbook a helpfulof all sizes resource and states for: of readiness. We hope you find this Playbook a helpful resource for: + Getting started + Familiarizing yourself with + Getting started + technicalFamiliarizing terms yourself and concepts, with + Identifying solutions that are a particularlytechnical terms in the and area concepts, of wireless + goodIdentifying fit for solutions community that challenges are a technologyparticularly and in the infrastructure area of wireless good fit for community challenges technology and infrastructure + Prioritizing projects based on the + Bringing smart cities projects + needsPrioritizing of businesses projects andbased residents on the + toBringing life—smoothly, smart cities affordably projects needs of businesses and residents andto life—smoothly, successfully affordably and successfully 3 CTIA Smart Cities Playbook © 2019 CTIA-The Wireless Association. All Rights Reserved. 3 CTIA Smart Cities Playbook SECTION I SECTION I As you approach a traffic light, the signal turns green, adjusting in real What Could time to a lack of cross traffic. You accelerate, saving time on your morning commute. In the lane next to you, passengers on a public bus check their Your City Be? transit connections on a mobile app. Downtown, the parking lot is crowded, but you remain capable of detecting gunshots, connected to Your City Be? calm. A series of lights leads you to an available space, systems that immediately notify law enforcement signaled because of an in-pavement detector. And you and first responders in the event of an incident. don’t have to stop to pay a meter, thanks to a sensor that seamlessly records parking start and stop times. This is how smart cities operate. Neighborhoods become a network. City services become more When you leave work, your walk is illuminated by LED efficient. Local communities save money with more lights that switch on when you approach and off as you informed decision-making, and residents enjoy continue on to save energy. Although you don’t realize a more comfortable, convenient, connected it, these same light posts also have acoustic sensors quality of life. © 2019 CTIA-The Wireless Association. 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All Rights Reserved. 5 CTIA Smart Cities Playbook It’s not science fiction, or achievable in only the most Smart cities begin with the Internet of Things (IoT): It’sfuture-focused not science fiction,and well-funded or achievable metropolis. in only Smartthe most Smartphysical cities devices, begin vehicles, with the home Internet appliances of Things and (IoT): more An investment in community Smart cities are safer cities. Integrated video sensors future-focusedcities are possible and everywhere, well-funded right metropolis. now. Smart physicalembedded devices, with electronics, vehicles, home software appliances and sensorsand more pride—and the future can help identify missing persons and solve crimes. cities are possible everywhere, right now. embeddedthat connect with across electronics, networks software and exchange and sensors data. But Gunshot sensors can summon police to a scene, and thatat their connect heart, across smart networks cities projects and exchange are really data. about But weather sensor technologies can alert residents to Smart cities: Expanding the atcommunities their heart, and smart connections—people cities projects are really working about Through monitoring water and energy use, making the nature and location of weather emergencies and Smart cities: Expanding the communitiestogether on better and connections—people