Cisco Kinetic for Cities

When the town of Cary, North Carolina, set out to adopt the latest smart city technologies, the ultimate goal was to enhance the lives of its citizens. With a growing population and proximity to top universities and tech jobs, Cary—the second-largest incorporated town in America—aimed to give its pe…

When I first landed in the Smart City space in 2012, I was working for Kansas City as it pioneered its way through those unchartered waters. Back then, we didn’t have a universally agreed upon definition of what a smart city was. Today, we still don’t, but most people can describe the basic characte…

The way we think about Smart Cities will undergo a major re-think in 2019. As smartphones reach peak saturation and the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a normal part of our lives, we expect a long overdue refocus from the technology to the people it helps. And best of all, we think the smart city m…

A year ago, IBM and Cisco announced a global collaboration to bring business insights to the edge of the network with IoT. Since then, we’ve been working to enable businesses in every industry to leverage the combined power of IBM Watson IoT in the cloud and Cisco’s Kinetic IoT data management platf…

Co-authored with Carly Botelho, Cisco Meraki Public Sector. Becoming ‘smarter’ is something that municipalities, cities, states and even countries are striving to achieve. Through the process, many questions arise as to what it actually mean to become a smart, connected community. Where…

A resilient city needs resilient people. But how does that happen? Is it organic or does it require a little push? And what role should technology play in creating resilience? The truth is that growing a smarter, more resilient city requires rapid and transparent interaction between government and t…

Did you know that Smart Cities are poised to drive significant change in how we work, play and learn in 2018? Thanks to the explosion in big data analytics capabilities and mobile, real-time video/information sharing, historians may someday look back on this year as the fulcrum upon which technology…

Once again, Cisco Government blogs have been named a top “Must-Read” by industry leaders (including StateTech and FedTech magazines). From Smart Cities to Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation to Digital Acceleration, we’re honored to be recognized for our vision and thought leadership in both th…

It has been an extremely busy and exciting month for us. Our secure data platform was officially renamed to Cisco Kinetic for Cities. We collaborated with Ferrovial to deliver a dynamic waste collection project in Granada, Spain. Chuck sat down with the Wall Street Journal to discuss our smart citie…