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16 I ICT TODAY ICT AND SMART CITIES What makes a city smart? There are millions of devices already deployed in cities with billions more coming that collect data on traffic, weather, energy, water usage, and much more. The Smart Cities Council and the International City/ County Management Association conducted a recent survey for smart city priorities. This revealed what smart city program managers and typical city technology leadership intend to purchase. Almost half of the responding city managers identified public safety technologies a top priority, followed by wastewater PUBLIC AGENCY WIRELESS/ WIRED INFR ASTRUCTURE SOLUTION PROVIDERS PRIVATE FACILITIES IN PARTNERSHIP SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR 1. City Mayor's Office on Public Safety, Chief Innovation or Digital Strategy Officer, City Public Safety (Law Enforcement, Fire and EMS) Liaison, Homeland Security Liaison, Transportation Safety Manager, City Energy and Sustainability Officer 2. Office of the Chief Information Technology Officer or City Network Infrastructure Project Manager 3. Primary Cellular or Wireless Service Provider, including 5G Service Rollout Provider(s) 4. Key Members of Fixed Wireless Service Provider Ecosystem (Cyber Security, Mobile Device Authentication, Multi-Spectrum Radio Hardware Solution Provider) 5. Fiber Optic Infrastructure/Internet Service Provider 6. Public Safety equipment solution provider for acoustic sensors, perimeter/area protection (LiDAR, Radar), surveillance cameras, venue entry screening 7. Transportation solution provider for pedestrian safety, vehicle/intersection communications (V2I), traffic and rail intersection safety, multi-modal public transportation safety and operations 8. Critical Infrastructure Providers, including Utilities/Energy, Water, Air Quality, Food Defense 9. Private corporation, B2B, healthcare, commercial, retail, property management, sports and entertainment venue, hospitality (hotels) working groups 10. Systems Integrator(s) delivering most or all the solutions in items (3) ~ (8) FIGURE 8: Summary of smart city ecosystem and ICT opportunities. In a smart city, the influencers closest to the mayor are the ICT teams delivering primary data transmission resources, not the individual stakeholders. (29.7 percent), ICT telecommunications (26.5 percent) and transportation (26.3 percent). There is a trend across the top 1,000 cities to appoint a Sustainability Executive, Digital Transformation Specialist or even a Digital Mayor (Figure 8). To have a dialog with any of these smart city team members requires skills in optical fiber and wireless infrastructure, public safety, vehicular intersection safety, traffic flow improvement, traffic incident detection management and, of course, putting it all together on a non-proprietary platform. In a smart city, the influencers closest to the mayor are the ICT teams delivering primary data transmission resources, not the individual stakeholders. Transportation – Not Just about Incidents Monitoring traffic patterns could alert city planners to the future need for a widened lane or new traffic light. Knowing this information will allow cities to contract with construction firms in plenty of time, including detailed information on where new traffic implemen- tations will be most effective.