International. Cisco participated in the Smart City Expo World Congress 2015, helping cities around the world accelerate their digital transformation in order to reduce costs, optimize their operational efficiency, develop new business models and ensure a better quality of life for citizens and better experiences for visitors.
Through practical demonstrations of solutions, presentations and joint announcements with its partners, the company showed during the event the latest innovations of its complete Smart+Connected Communities portfolio, designed to guarantee the economic, social and environmental sustainability of urban centers.
Cisco and its partners Black & Veatch, CH2M, Cubic Transportation Systems, Deutsche Telekom, Johnson Controls Building Efficiency, Kiwi Security Software, s::can, Sensity Systems, Smart City Media and WorldSensing – as well as the cities of Dubai, Hamburg, Adelaide (Australia) and Kansas City (Missouri) – unveiled different implementations of solutions for smart cities.
Digital Platform for Cities
In the next ten years, 70 percent of the world's population will live in urban centers. To respond to their enormous social, economic and environmental challenges, cities demand new, more efficient models capable of optimizing their infrastructure and processes and providing better citizen services in a sustainable way.
Relying on an intelligent network as an underlying platform for the management of urban services, the Cisco Smart+Connected Communities solutions portfolio offers a complete approach to transform public spaces into connected smart communities, eliminating barriers between Administrations, people and companies to collect and convert data from connections into useful information and transform the way we live, we work, learn and have fun.
More than 90 cities around the world to date – including Mumbai (India), Toronto (Canada), Chicago (USA), Hamburg (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Chengdu (China) or Dubai (USA) - have relied on Cisco and its partners to deploy multiple Smart+Connected Communities solutions and applications such as parking, smart traffic and lighting, connected education or protection, healthcare and access to remote government services.
