How Smart Lighting Improves Urban Transparency and Engagement, The Arrival of Smart City Living, and Indoor Asset Tracking with WiFi
The best podcast episodes and articles from this week, curated by the IoT For All Team.
Our Latest Podcast Episode
E029 | How Is IoT Improving Transparency Between Smart Cities and Citizens?
On this podcast episode, Austin Ashe, GM of Intelligent Cities at Current (Powered by GE), explains what "smart lighting" actually means and we dive into Current's strategy for using smart lighting to drive smart city deployments. We also explore how data gathered by smart lighting solutions can improve urban transparency and citizen engagement. Listen Now.
This Week’s Best Reads
The Arrival of Smart City Living
How have our cities evolved over time? Continuing our series on smart city privacy, we lay the foundation for looking more closely at the factors driving the use of data in smart cities. In our rush to put the pieces in place to achieve this smart living, can we trust ourselves to think about the whole picture, balancing integration and privacy?
WiFi is widely available in indoor spaces, so it may seem like a logical default choice for indoor positioning systems, but it has security and accuracy drawbacks. Nonetheless, despite WiFi’s shortcomings, with fingerprinting, sensor fusion and security hardening, WiFi becomes a good option for connecting indoor positioning systems.
Operators Must Look Beyond Connectivity to Monetize IoT
Despite the rapid expansion of IoT within a range of industry verticals, according to research by Analysis Mason IoT customers account for a mere two percent of operators’ revenue. Several telecom operators are already using successful strategies. For operators looking to monetize IoT effectively, having a laser focus on IoT data within a platform-as-a-service business model may be the path forward.
Five Things We’re Reading
1—The Verge: Sony built an IoT chip with a 60-mile range. It will use Sony’s proprietary low-power wide area network (LPWAN) launching this fall.
2—RCR Wireless: SoftBank selected Ericsson (for RAN equipment) and Nokia (for its 5G AirScale tech) as its vendors for a major 5G deployment in Japan.
3—Enterprise IoT Insights: French smart cargo monitoring specialist Traxens announced that Maersk has become one of its key shareholders.
4—Smart Cities Dive: If police departments maintain a laser focus on people, promises and trust, strategically deployed technology can benefit everyone.
5—Enterprise IoT Insights: Certain functions of smart farming won’t work on LPWANs, despite the widespread use of LoRaWAN and NB-IoT. Investors are betting on 5G.
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