Smart Cities

We just announced two new IoT solutions at Cisco Live Barcelona that drive relevancy across your accounts in almost every vertical. All of us in Cisco’s partner organization are very excited about how these new offerings, Cisco Cyber Vision and Cisco Edge Intelligence, will create new opportunities…

Following our blog on the Future of Communities in the #FutureofPublicSector series, today we take a deeper look into the future of financing and more specifically, how communities can fund their digital transformation.  It is estimated that the increasing pace of urbaniz…

Working with cities across the world, we’ve started to notice a familiar pattern of challenges and we believe we’ve come up with a solution and unique innovations to address these. So, in the story below I’d like to share the perspective of a typical municipal leader who’s facing these challenges an…

Co-Authored with Del White Today, we are making a stop on our journey through Cisco’s #FutureofPublicSector series to explore the city of the future. This is no Tomorrowland or distant dream of what the world could look like, but a direct result of the cities and communities that we are…

Cities around the world face rapid urbanization, economic constraints, and environmental concerns. To address these challenges, city administrators are turning to technology, especially the Internet of Things (IoT), to digitize city operations. Unfortunately, smart city technologies pose significant…

Co-Authored with Heather Keleher and Dani Schrakamp When you dream of the city of tomorrow, what do you picture? Healthcare that transcends the hospital? Education that weaves technology into every classroom? A revolution in mass transit? Cities that are not only safer, but also infinitely more liva…

Co-Authored with TJ Costello, Global Director of Smart Cities & Transportation at Cisco Cities are growing at an unprecedented rate. In fact, according to data from the United Nations, 68% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050.1 While some people think that a more populous city m…

Although the Portuguese city of Caldas da Rainha traces its history to 1484, it’s thoroughly modern when it comes to using IoT to become a smarter, more livable and more prosperous community. In fact, it’s setting a compelling example that other cities can follow as they work to unlock IoT’s potenti…

Communities are increasingly working to get “smart” by using sensors, cameras and other IoT devices to address efficiency, transportation, safety, environmental and health challenges. Though well intentioned, many communities launch pilot projects or proofs of concept without fully considering futur…