1. Connected Infrastructure
This solution will convert city lighting infrastructure into a distributed sensing platform that hosts smart city applications
What to look for
Target this solution to government leaders advocating for the transformation of urban or rural areas into more livable, workable and sustainable communities
Architecture
Solution and reference architectures

2. Azure Connected Infrastructure
This solution will convert city lighting infrastructure into a distributed sensing platform that hosts smart city applications.
Key Benefits:
Improved operations and citizen services
Real-time insights to improve city living and public safety
Wi-Fi access points, especially beneficial to rural areas
Azure Enterprise Town Hall media solution enables enterprises to deliver high quality, live video streams to their employees.
Enterprise Town Hall solution is based on hive streaming network pattern
A hive network is a distributed network of computers that help each other distribute high quality video
Each client in the network talks to other clients to determine the optimal routes. Also determining which client is best suited to fetch the stream from the server as well as which clients should share data with whom
The result is a very efficient, robust and adaptive system that removes almost all network load while maintaining very high levels of reliability

3. What to look for
Target this solution to government leaders advocating for the transformation of urban or rural areas into more livable, workable and sustainable communities.
Operational analytics dashboard updated in near real time as data streams are continuously uploaded into the Azure cloud​
Localized street light remote “tuning” for weather conditions or optimizing cost
Act on real-time information about public safety, environmental protection, traffic flow or parking
Utilize light poles as public Wi-Fi access points ​
Azure Enterprise Town Hall media solution enables enterprises to deliver high quality, live video streams to their employees.
Enterprise Town Hall solution is based on hive streaming network pattern
A hive network is a distributed network of computers that help each other distribute high quality video
Each client in the network talks to other clients to determine the optimal routes. Also determining which client is best suited to fetch the stream from the server as well as which clients should share data with whom
The result is a very efficient, robust and adaptive system that removes almost all network load while maintaining very high levels of reliability

4. Solution architecture
Business user
Government leaders responsible for public works, transportation and/or protection of the community and environment.
Solution goal
This solution will transform lighting infrastructure into a distributed sensing platform that benefits urban and rural areas and creates sustainable communities.
Solution components
This solution is built on the following Azure managed services: IoT Hub, Stream Analytics, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Machine Learning, HDInsight, Data Factory and PowerBI. These services run in a high availability environment, patched and supported, allowing you to focus on your solution vs. the environment to run them in. .
Azure Enterprise Town Hall media solution enables enterprises to deliver high quality, live video streams to their employees.
Enterprise Town Hall solution is based on hive streaming network pattern
A hive network is a distributed network of computers that help each other distribute high quality video
Each client in the network talks to other clients to determine the optimal routes. Also determining which client is best suited to fetch the stream from the server as well as which clients should share data with whom
The result is a very efficient, robust and adaptive system that removes almost all network load while maintaining very high levels of reliability

5. Reference architecture
Device s
Azure Cloud
Frontend
Stream Analytics
Power BI
Web Dashboards
Target this solution to government leaders advocating for the transformation of urban or rural areas into more livable, workable and sustainable communities
Operational analytics dashboard updated in near real time as data streams are continuously uploaded into the Azure cloud​
Localized street light remote “tuning” for weather conditions or optimizing cost ​
Act on real-time information about public safety, environmental protection, traffic flow or parking
Utilize light poles as public Wi-Fi access points ​​
Event Hubs
Cloud services worker role
Event processor host (Realtime UI)
Web App
Stream Analytics
Aggregation/ Alarm Jobs
SignalR Hub
HTTPS SignalR
Machine Learning
Device API
AMQP
IoT Hub
Ingestion Endpoint
Stream Analytics
Data Archive Job
HTTPS/ RESET
Windows 10 App Dashboard App
HDInsight*
Display Cache
SQL
Azure Blob Storage
SQL Data Warehouse
Data Factory
Data layer

6. Reference Architecture
IoT Hub
A fully managed service that enables reliable and secure bidirectional communications between millions of IoT devices and a solution backend. Provides reliable device-to-cloud and cloud-to-device messaging at scale
Stream Analytics
A fully managed, cost effective real-time event processing engine that helps to unlock data stream insights from devices, sensors, web sites, social media, applications, infrastructure systems, and more.
Azure Blob Storage
Unstructured data storage, scaling up (or down) as your needs change and you pay only for what you use, saving budget over on-premises storage options.
Azure SQL
A relational database-as-a-service that delivers predictable performance, scalability, business continuity, data protection, and near-zero administration to cloud developers
Machine Learning
A cloud predictive analytics service that makes it possible to quickly create and deploy predictive models as analytics solutions.
HDInsight
Fully-managed cloud Hadoop offering that provides optimized open source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA
PowerBI
A suite of business analytics tools to analyze data and share insights
Azure Data Factory
Cloud-based data integration service that automates the movement and transformation of data
Azure Cache
Elastic memory that your application needs for increasing its performance and throughput by offloading the pressure from the data tier and the distributed state
Worker Role
Any role in Azure that runs applications and services level tasks, which generally do not require internet information services - such as automatically compressing uploaded images, run scripts when something changes in database, etc
Web App
A client software application which runs in a web browser
Target this solution to government leaders advocating for the transformation of urban or rural areas into more livable, workable and sustainable communities
Operational analytics dashboard updated in near real time as data streams are continuously uploaded into the Azure cloud​
Localized street light remote “tuning” for weather conditions or optimizing cost ​
Act on real-time information about public safety, environmental protection, traffic flow or parking
Utilize light poles as public Wi-Fi access points ​​

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