Cities worldwide are placing increasing importance on building up resilience to better handle natural disasters, such as extreme weather, flooding and fire caused by climate change. Smart cities need sophisticated ICT infrastructure and analytical capabilities to enhance and coordinate the information flow between multiple agencies, such as transport authorities, emergency services, energy providers and citizens.
A city’s ability to collect, store, process, analyse and distribute a large amount of information from various sensor networks, and the entire urban ecosystem, is the foundation to enhance situation awareness and improve public safety. Partnerships between technology vendors, software companies, integrators and telecom operators, plus the underlying technologies such as LTE, IoT, big data and SDN, play a key role in delivering an effective end-to-end solution.