Andres Ruiz

The market continues to buzz about the opportunity for IoT. You see and hear about it everywhere, but you can’t go to a store and purchase IoT solutions. IoT is not a product; it is a journey that almost every company needs to start sooner rather than later. While there are many layers and op…

I travel a lot due to my responsibilities at Cisco. My work takes me to cities all around the world, from centuries-old towns in Europe to densely populated cities in Latin America.  I see super-modern cities in the Middle East, and small and large metropolitan areas in the USA.  These places are ve…

My eight-year-old is just starting third grade, and he is coping with the increased demands of a more rigorous school year.  Today’s educators are looking for new ways to improve education in earlier years, and there are some new options I believe should be taken into consideration. My son and his f…

How do cities gather operational information? In what ways do city traffic engineers and planners gain visibility to traffic conditions and impacting weather conditions?  Exactly how do Road Maintenance Supervisors determine if they need to send their crews to repair a problem? The answer is through…

My mother is 82 years old and she occasionally suffers from incredible back pain, leaving her in the hospital. and it is sad that she spends a lot of her time at hospitals. Often when I take her to the hospital, the visits are long and stressful. I can testify that it is challenging for hospitals, d…

As a father of two small childen, I think a lot about their future.  One of the things on my mind the other day as I dropped them off at school was the need for Education to evolve to support the new learning models of this generation. Everyday, my kids surprise me by the ways they learn – which are…