SMART CITY AND INTERNET OF THINGS

Tall City Telecom is comprised of an experienced and professional telecom team to help you install & commission any Smart City or IoT (internet of things) deployment. We have the heavy equipment, testing gear, and the technical knowledge to tackle any project in an urban or rural environment.

1. City Transportation
Transit benefits immensely when those at the helm stay informed throughout the journey. Sadly, traditional disconnects and transportation frameworks haven’t always made it easy. In smart cities, however, cars that get into wrecks can share their statuses and locations with authorities instantly via public networks. In addition to keeping officials in the know, these notifications might inform other smart vehicles that they should slow down.

Some smart transit tech takes accident prevention even further. Embedded sensors that monitor site-specific conditions, such as frozen bridge surfaces, are already being used to help reroute traffic and dispatch fleets of plows and salt trucks. Since lives hang in the balance when road maintenance lags, such improvements are easy to justify even in the face of tight budgets.

2. Smart Parking
What will the smart parking structure of the future look like? While most outward changes will likely escape all but the closest scrutiny, the nervous systems of modern lots and garages are taking huge strides upward and onward. Some lots interact with smart vehicles to gather data on how many open spaces they have available. Others use vehicle feedback to tell precisely where the openings are and nudge waiting cars towards the path of least resistance.

Street parking hardware can perform similar feats by subtly shepherding motorists away from overcrowding and even mitigating congestion by favoring certain parking zones at specific times.

3. Environmental Monitoring
In many locales, the environment takes a back seat to other concerns. Whether they’re plagued by economic constraints or a fundamental lack of foresight, towns and cities often struggle to deal with problems whose origins recede generations into the past.

The IoT helps paint these urgent issues in a clearer focus. For example, air-quality monitors not only alert people to dangerous conditions but also promote public accountability by revealing where the worst discharges are coming from. The same goes for inexpensive water turbidity monitors that can help stewards safeguard vital watersheds. With the right sensors in place, regulators gain more power to levy fines accurately and take effective cleanup actions.

Environmental oversight also holds lots of promise for indirectly reducing the footprint of essential municipal activities. Cities and departments can tag computers and other devices to heighten traceability and e-waste stream diversion. Tracking a fleet’s movements to improve dispatching and fuel consumption can mitigate emissions. In towns with smaller coffers, sensor-laden service vehicles might make ideal mobile monitoring platforms (as we have seen!)

Smart Lighting
Keeping the streets bright is more than just a good means of attracting well-heeled professionals and tax-paying small businesses to a growing city. Smart lighting contributes to improved quality of life in ways that are easy to see and appreciate.