Kansas City has recently signed an agreement with Sprint and Cisco to deploy a Smart City framework to transform urban services and enhance the citizen experience, bringing together an ecosystem to develop applications including smart lighting, digital kiosks, a development data portal, and smart water innovations.
In addition, Sprint will deploy Cisco's hardware to construct and manage an intelligent Wi-Fi network that will serve as the backbone of the connectivity platform. The Wi-Fi network works with sensors powered by Sensity, one of the companies collaborating with Cisco on this project. The Wi-Fi network and sensors rolled out across 93,000 street lights in the city would allow each lighting fixture to be transformed into a sensory node in a powerful, broadband wireless network, creating a Light Sensory Network for municipalities. The joint solution is designed to convert city lighting infrastructure into a distributed sensing platform to collect real-time data for smart city applications, such as smart parking, lighting, retail analytics, and public safety and security.
Cisco is also working with a number of other partners to power up the connected city initiative, including ThinkBig Partners on the "Living Lab" development data portal and CityPost for interactive digital kiosks and mobile citizen engagement.
Wim Elfrink, executive vice president, industry solutions group, and chief globalisation officer for Cisco.
It's exciting to see forward looking cities like Kansas City driving innovations that enable cities to connect people, process, data and things, and bring the Internet of Everything to life. Kansas City is empowering its citizens, helping them become more efficient and more productive, and the city is poised to create significant new economic value. We're pleased to be part of the team that will deploy a Smart+Connected City framework.
Stephen Bye, chief technology officer at Sprint
Sprint looks forward to playing an integral role in this ground-breaking initiative to bring greater connectivity across a wide range of business and consumer applications that support the Internet of Everything in our hometown. Delivering Wi-Fi connectivity is a great fit for Sprint, and enables our customers to more easily use both cellular and Wi-Fi for a better mobile experience.
