Enhancing the living conditions of residents is one of the main goals of a smart city. Therefore, it achieves this by leveraging an ecosystem that is built on infrastructure & technology. While the crucial objective is optimizing the processes & reducing the maintenance costs, smart cities deliver improved services as well as better conditions to its citizens.

Delivering actionable insights for building enterprise-class smart city solutions

The underpinnings of several smart city solutions is to build a few key competencies that can be scaled for becoming an enterprise solution like developing edge native solutions that can incorporate sensors & IoT devices, analyzing data streams for delivering actionable insights in real time as well as storing them for later analysis, ensuring the ecosystem is adaptable for new business as well as engagement models that are open to the public & partners, re-shaping the city as well as suburban areas on the basis of analysis of transport, criminality, health, traffic, pollution, population, concentration green areas, and many others.

One such company offering Connected Intelligence platform for delivering all the competencies that is required for an enterprise-class smart city solution is TIBCO. The company is positioned uniquely for helping customers to build Internet of Things based solutions & deliver smart connected solutions.

Garnering citizen participation by introducing gamification

Some of the major city centers are expanding in size, scale & complexity, emphasizing huge demands on services as well as traditional infrastructure. Furthermore, the advancements in Internet of Things & streaming analytics have laid the foundation for innovative use cases. These include e-governance, smart healthcare, smart meters and many others.

While publicly accessible ecosystems are on high demand today, empowering citizens for rendering ideas which fulfill the requirements of the community, unlocking predictive possibilities for the municipality for intervening as soon a failure or anomaly occurs such as malfunctioning traffic lights and this leads to prompt maintenance & increases the level of security.

Lastly, smart cities help the citizens in being an active part of the city and one such illustration of garnering citizen participation is bringing in gamification via mobile applications where citizens can report a lot of incidents such as accidents, bad illumination, abandoned waste, potholes and many others., which will help the city respond with feedback once it has been solved.

A vision-zero city by leveraging smart mobility solution

A few of TIBCO’s smart city customers embarked on their journey with an aim to become a vision-zero city by leveraging and using a smart mobility solution that is built on TIBCO to decrease the number of road fatalities through Artificial Intelligence & streaming analytics. The solution utilizes Internet of Things traffic sensor data which is streaming in & analyzes it by utilizing Machine Learning models & the solution would then score an aggregation of the sensor data accurately as a potentially malicious traffic pattern with a high probability of an accident to occur.

The platform will then “act” on the score by utilizing intelligent case management for assigning the incident to the exact agency and the same solution is now being extended to solve other use cases too.

In a nutshell

An all-inclusive smart city platform must possess the ability for offering a unified solution which can ensure and facilitate a city in establishing numerous services for sustainability & mitigating risks. A few of these solutions include waste management, E-governance & citizen services, energy management & urban mobility.