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July/August/September 2019 I 17 Parking in a Smart City Installation and integration of low cost, long range, and lower power wireless nodes (LoRaWAN) into vehicle parking structures and street parking is a growing industry and necessity to complete smart parking solutions. This can be a new opportunity for ICT systems integrators. These unique sensors have attractive features: • Simplified installation with LoRaWAN wireless technology • Lower maintenance costs; long battery life • Long range supports hundreds of sensor nodes, collecting smart parking data to improve efficiency • Space availability integration with existing smart parking and smart city solutions Behind Every Smart City is a Well-Learned AI A recent Juniper Research 2 report shows the potential to reduce crime and save the smart city citizen about three weeks every year when systems integrators deploy AI smart technologies in public safety and transportation. • Powered by AI, public safety enables proactive policing of high crime areas and yields a savings of 35 hours 3 • Smart traffic systems, including dynamic traffic control and connected parking, will yield a mobility savings of 60 hours per year • Efficient delivery of city services will improve administrative productivity, saving residents 21 hours annually Site of a New Technology Sale: The Innovation District Smart city initiatives often start with "test beds" or IoT "proving grounds." Through public and private partnerships and city and state funding, urban tech clusters or "innovation districts" are enabling solutions focused on transportation, public safety and commercialization of new product prototypes developed by both local tech startups and global enterprise companies. The Las Vegas Innovation District includes most of the Downtown and Arts districts. It was developed in 2017 as a platform to test new smart city technologies following the budgeting of $500 million for smart city tech. Recently, a major auto manufacturer tested its vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technology in the Las Vegas Innovation District, connecting the vehicle to IoT systems embedded throughout the district to assist how drivers navigate the streets. Would it not be great to have a real-time display of "time to red" or "time to green" traffic signals? Several cities, including San Diego, are now supporting these and many other features