Smart+Connected Communities

Increased water scarcity and the question of clean water availability are just a few of the unsettling realities of our lifetime. Aging infrastructure, climate pattern changes such as extreme precipitation and flooding, pollution, and population growth are impacting water quality across the globe, p…

Co-authored with Heather Keleher.             The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a new beast: progressing at a faster and more aggressive pace than any of the prior three revolutions. This revolution is characterized by oceans of big data, the rise of autonomous machi…

Earlier this year, the City of Guelph and the county of Wellington in Ontario set an ambitious goal to transform its local food system and become Canada’s first “Circular Food Economy.” By 2025, Guelph-Wellington aspires to increase access to affordable, nutritious food by 50%; create 50 new c…

We have the emergence of a new urban services industry that is enabled by 20B+ real-time sensors and mobile data sources providing contextual data and creating $3T of value for Cities through improved citizen services, reduction in costs and increased revenue. Cities are attempting to deploy all typ…

Co-authored with Heather Keleher. You’ve certainly heard about blockchain, most likely with respect to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum or other alternative financial transaction schema. Recently, though, the term has also been associated with a broader array of transaction tracking applic…

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…

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…

Building Momentum for Cisco Kinetic for Cities As I mentioned in my previous blog post, we’ve renamed our connected digital platform and smart solutions to Cisco Kinetic for Cities to fortify our alignment internally and deliver even better outcomes for our customers. What could be better than havin…

We recently launched the Network. Intuitive. campaign to introduce an entirely new era of secure networking. Cisco is recognized worldwide for its decades-long leadership in networking infrastructure. And now, we’ve upped the ante with the intent-based Cisco Digital Network Architecture, or DNA. Wav…