The Role of IT and Infrastructure in Building Smart Cities

This decade, cities around the world will invest $108 billion in smart-city infrastructure, such as smart meters and grids, energy-efficient buildings and data analytics, according to Pike Research.

The conversations around smart cities have historically been dominated by large IT players focusing on giving devices intelligence and networking capabilities — a top-down, software-centric approach. Today, companies like Schneider Electric, with an in-depth understanding of what is going on behind the plug or inside the water network, are employing a bottom-up, infrastructure-focused strategy.

This webcast will look at the development of smart cities around the world: the challenges and opportunities as well as the role of both IT and infrastructure in a smart-cities engagement.

In this one-hour webcast, you’ll learn:

• How IT can play a role in accelerating collaboration among citizens and other stakeholders
• The benefits that cloud-based software, analytics and big data can bring to cities
• How IT can help the various city operation systems make better use of that data
• What the public sector can do to help spur innovation and safeguard citizens interests
   

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