Cool IoT Use Cases: Memphis set to deploy a smart city transportation system
Published on May 3rd, 2019
Market overview
Smart cities need to do more than merely connect devices and infrastructure. They have the potential to engage citizens, improve city services, ensure public safety, and enable a better quality of life. Memphis is laying the groundwork in order to realise those objectives.
The problem
Smart city initiatives need an agile, adaptive, secure infrastructure. Network management needs to be relatively simple, able to accommodate growing bandwidth demands, and support the use of forward-looking technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered IP camera implementations. That’s a tall order.
The players
The City of Memphis, Tennessee and Extreme Networks, whose headquarters are in San Jose, California. The company delivers adaptive, secure solutions that go from the enterprise edge to the cloud in order to enable digital transformation processes.
The solution
Extreme’s switching, management, and analytics technology as well as the company’s professional services are enabling Memphis to realise its smart city objectives. They include: an automated infrastructure designed to transform the transportation hub by paving the way for autonomous vehicles, an intelligent transportation system, and AI-driven public safety initiatives. Transportation is particularly important as Memphis is home to FedEx and the world’s second busiest cargo airport.
Business benefits
- Automated, software-driven infrastructure
- Visibility, control, and security for IoT devices
- Centralised management and granular analytics
The author is freelance technology writer, Bob Emmerson
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