July/August 2019 I 17
Parking in a Smart City
Installation and integration of low cost, long range, and lower power
wireless nodes (LoRaWAN) into vehicle parking structures and street
parking is a growing industry and necessity to complete smart parking
solutions. This can be a new opportunity for ICT systems integrators.
These unique sensors have attractive features:
• Simplified installation with LoRaWAN wireless technology
• Lower maintenance costs; long battery life
• Long range supports hundreds of sensor nodes, collecting
smart parking data to improve efficiency
• Space availability integration with existing smart parking
and smart city solutions
Behind Every Smart City is a Well-Learned AI
A recent Juniper Research2 report shows the potential to reduce crime
and save the smart city citizen about three weeks every year when
systems integrators deploy AI smart technologies in public safety
and transportation.
• Powered by AI, public safety enables proactive policing
of high crime areas and yields a savings of 35 hours3
• Smart traffic systems, including dynamic traffic control
and connected parking, will yield a mobility savings
of 60 hours per year
• Efficient delivery of city services will improve administrative
productivity, saving residents 21 hours annually
Site of a New Technology Sale: The Innovation District
Smart city initiatives often start with “test beds” or IoT “proving grounds.”
Through public and private partnerships and city and state funding,
urban tech clusters or “innovation districts” are enabling solutions
focused on transportation, public safety and commercialization
of new product prototypes developed by both local tech startups
and global enterprise companies.
The Las Vegas Innovation District includes most of the Downtown
and Arts districts. It was developed in 2017 as a platform to test new
smart city technologies following the budgeting of $500 million for
smart city tech.
Recently, a major auto manufacturer tested its vehicle-to-infrastructure
(V2I) technology in the Las Vegas Innovation District, connecting the
vehicle to IoT systems embedded throughout the district to assist how
drivers navigate the streets. Would it not be great to have a real-time
display of “time to red” or “time to green” traffic signals? Several cities,
including San Diego, are now supporting these and many other features
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