Verizon Smart Communities

Verizon Smart Communities
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Is your city changing? Increased crime
Traffic congestion and limited parking Air pollution and high energy costs Barriers to community engagement Your city, like cities all around the world, is changing in fundamental ways. Populations are expanding. Demographics are shifting. Citizen needs and expectations are evolving. People and businesses are using more of your services, while demanding to be served in new and constantly evolving ways. Growth and change strain existing resources and infrastructure, as well as bringing new challenges, from public safety and air pollution to traffic congestion and barriers to citizen engagement. To keep pace with these changes, cities must rethink their approach to infrastructure and services. The good news is that new technologies are emerging that empower city governments to deliver more efficient and effective services in new and better ways. Confidential and proprietary materials for authorized Verizon personnel and outside agencies only. Use, disclosure or distribution of this material is not permitted to any unauthorized persons or third parties except by written agreement.

Major city initiatives
Sustainability and efficiency Public safety and security Citizen experiences We’ve talked with city leaders around the country, and listened to their challenges. We’ve also heard good news, like the initiatives they’re undertaking to tackle those challenges—some of which we’re involved in, including: Sustainability and efficiency—using resources more effectively and minimizing environmental impact as growth accelerates Public safety and security—allowing access to emergency services and helping to promote asset security Citizen experiences—making cities more livable, while enabling people to participate fully Let’s talk about each of those individually. Confidential and proprietary materials for authorized Verizon personnel and outside agencies only. Use, disclosure or distribution of this material is not permitted to any unauthorized persons or third parties except by written agreement.

Increasing sustainability and efficiency is a big challenge, but one that can be tackled from different angles. For example, how can you: Reduce energy consumption and cut costs related to inefficient lighting Create and convey incentives to motivate people to conserve energy Incentivize public transit options, with the aim of cutting carbon emissions and reducing traffic congestion And then there’s public safety to consider.

Improving the safety and security of your citizens and properties has many components, too.
For example, how can you: Improve situational awareness for first responders Proactively improve traffic flow with the aim of preventing accidents that can lead to injuries or fatalities—and finally achieve “Vision Zero” Ensure that public spaces are well lit and safe to walk and bike Improve law enforcement responses City leaders must also provide quality experiences for both residents and visitors.

You want to make your city highly livable and attractive to residents and visitors alike.
So how can you: Bridge the digital divide and provide reliable, fast public Wi-Fi, as well as share information about places of interest and goings-on in your city Make it easier to access public transportation Discover public transportation options and maps Access emergency services Verizon can help.

All of these challenges overlap and are constantly moving targets, depending on where you are and what’s going on. But the right infrastructure can give you the means to meet them head-on, and help you create a community that is safer and more livable, sustainable and resilient. Verizon offers a comprehensive set of solutions that, combined with our expertise and managed services, can help you tackle these challenges, end to end. We’re not selling technology looking for a problem; these solutions were created specifically to meet your city’s needs. They include solutions for: Lighting Traffic Parking Public safety Citizen engagement Let’s start with Intelligent Lighting and the ways that can help you.

Lighting challenges High energy costs Inefficient management
Broken lights and frustrated residents Lighting is an important component to any city. It illuminates public spaces and neighborhood streets, improving livability and safety. It’s also a big line item in your budget. If you can find a better, affordable way to manage lights—make them smarter— it pays off in more ways than one. In addition, many cities are in the process of major overhauls to install LED lighting systems. This creates an opportunity to explore other related lighting solutions and is a good time to install intelligent lighting. The following are just a few of the most common lighting challenges faced by cities around the country: Non-LED lights are inefficient and use a lot of energy When a light goes out, it’s a safety issue. And it can become a point of real frustration, if the right people don’t know it’s out and residents are waiting for it to be fixed And finally, when you can’t control your lights, you can’t manage them. As in, you can’t simply turn them on or off when you need to If you’re facing these or other lighting-related problems, we can help. Verizon has developed a system that transforms lighting into a converged sensor network and services platform that can also drive other critical city services.

With our Intelligent Lighting solutions, you can manage your lights: Turn them on and off; dim them; and set timers, schedules and motion tracking. And you can change any of those parameters based on your needs at any given time. Plus, you’re conserving energy while gaining functionality. That’s a way to improve the sustainability in your city. And, as with our other solutions, you’ll also gain the benefits of analytics, such as temperature and energy monitoring, which can help you better understand how your lighting works. And better equip you to make informed, cost-saving decisions. Compared to conventional street-lighting, LEDs have demonstrated savings of up to 50% to 70%, and up to 80% when combined with smart sensors and controls. This is based on a study conducted in 12 cities around the world, including New York, London, Kolkata and Sydney, by The Climate Group: Our solution also offers easy maintenance: You know exactly when and where a light has gone out, which helps to improve safety and livability. Plus, Intelligent Lighting offers many public safety benefits: Detect movements and low-light conditions and automatically adjust brightness of light Strengthen public safety with sensory alerts for abnormal activity through the NetSense platform And while LED luminaires and lighting controls help save energy and costs, there is even more that can be done to help maximize savings and expand the life of smart city solutions. With our City Hub device, you can protect your investment and add sensors and new solutions into existing infrastructure as technology advances.

Traffic management is a huge challenge
Traffic management is a huge challenge. You need to be able to identify where traffic congestion is a problem and why it occurs. Otherwise, you’re confronted with a long list of multifaceted problems, like: Congested, slow moving and totally idle traffic—including stopping at a red light with no cross-traffic Vehicle-pedestrian and vehicle-bicycle accidents. A recent study of large cities showed that 6% of streets account for 60% of serious or fatal traffic accidents Inaccurate vehicle count data, which makes it hard to get a handle on things Traffic problems during big events, like sporting events, concerts, marathons, festivals and parades, which can also become safety concerns Fortunately, with accurate, near real-time insights and powerful back-end analytics, you can mitigate congestion and optimize traffic flows. You can also better anticipate and adapt in real time, especially around major events or situations that can lead to spikes in traffic—and potentially accidents.

Analytics play a big part in our Intelligent Traffic Management solution.
This solution provides tools and analytics to help you see into your infrastructure and optimize the flow of traffic. Our sensors can be used to track and monitor vehicle media access control (MAC) addresses, so you can better understand travel times and better predict delays. We can also place sensors in strategic locations to capture data through our cellular network—to track car counts. That way, you know—in near real time—how many cars are going through which parts of your city at what times, which is extremely useful to traffic engineers. And with sensor-based monitoring, you can better manage traffic signals, specific intersections and high-traffic areas, to improve integrated corridor management and optimize traffic flows.

Easily gather better information.
Unlike other traffic study methods, Traffic Data Services is flexible enough to allow you to customize the scope of your study—from national to state to zone, and everything in between—without added hardware costs. Verizon Traffic Data Services can be easily configured in a variety of different ways. With Traffic Data Services, you can monitor and gather location data. There aren’t any capital costs for hardware. There’s also no need to cause further disruption to traffic by installing sensors or other equipment. Traffic Data Services delivers near real-time insights and historical analysis about traffic flow, based on anonymized cellular data, to help planners minimize congestion, plan future multimodal transportation and improve land use. Our cost-effective solution for smart transportation management includes: Live traffic management Congestion mitigation Travel surveys for trip times Origin-destination studies (can be from junction level to country level, as shown on this slide) Traffic impact studies Traffic signal tuning Congestion root-cause analysis Mass-transit planning

To succeed in a Vision Zero initiative, you need more—and better—data
To succeed in a Vision Zero initiative, you need more—and better—data. Intersection Safety Analytics, the Verizon solution for achieving Vision Zero initiatives, uses computer vision analytics to identify traffic-safety trends. These trends provide actionable data that can be used to change potentially dangerous road behaviors. Intersection Safety Analytics provides: An integrated, managed solution for measuring bicycle and pedestrian safety A dashboard to analyze patterns of dangerous behaviors Application programming interfaces (APIs) to feed measurement results to external platforms/data storage Comparison with historical data to demonstrate safety achievement End-to-end support, from planning to deployment to maintenance Preliminary design and assessment to assist in creating funding applications Intersection Safety Analytics changes the way traffic-safety solutions are measured and changes are implemented. With end-to-end solutions, the customer pays one price that includes all hardware, software, maintenance and support for the life of the contract. Because Intersection Safety Analytics is software as a service (SaaS)-based, customers have the latest software updates. This can eliminate server maintenance and support or inaccurate and invalid traffic studies. Intersection Safety Analytics can provide near real-time traffic safety metrics of an intersection, including trends such as: Jaywalking—pedestrians crossing outside of crosswalk Speeding—speed distributions of vehicles and pedestrians near the intersection Turning movement—turning movements of vehicles/bikes/pedestrians correlated with traffic signal phases (red, green and yellow) Boston example: Boston and Verizon, verizon.com/about/news/bostons-vision-zero-intersection-technology-and-safety Now let’s talk about another challenge that can also impact traffic flow: parking.

A big influencer of traffic, especially in the heart of most cities, is parking—or lack thereof.
All too often, drivers just don’t know where spots are available. They circle around and around, causing backups and impacting traffic flow. In fact, on average, 30% of traffic congestion in downtown areas is cars looking for parking.1 If they can’t find one quickly or easily, they might just park wherever they want. And that can lead to parking violations, which are cumbersome and costly for both drivers and the city. In addition, many cities have many multi-use zones, with competing needs for delivery, rideshare and more. With limited information about utilization rates of those areas and the available parking spaces across the city, creating parking policies and pricing can be challenging. To alleviate these problems, everyone involved—you, your citizens, traffic managers and traffic engineers—needs more and better insights. 1

And that’s exactly what our Parking Optimization provides: actionable insights and information.
Parking Optimization is a cloud-based managed service solution that gives parking operators the ability to monitor the occupancy of surface-level parking (non-garage parking). Our computer-vision video sensors detect vehicles pulling in and out of parking spots. Established parking policies are applied and the information is sent as metadata to the cloud. A comprehensive dashboard with reports and charts provides visibility into occupancy, availability, dwell times, turnover, etc. Analytical tools help parking managers optimize rates in different parts of the city, motivating people to save money by parking farther way and increasing fees for those willing to pay for closer access. The data can also be shared with MapQuest® or third-party location-mapping providers to help citizens locate available parking. (Like we’re already doing in Kansas City, Washington, DC, and Palo Alto). So Parking Optimization helps you maximize utilization of spaces, optimize revenue opportunity and enhance parking operations—while potentially improving traffic flow, and reducing emissions and drive times.

Chances are, there’s a lot of investment and activity already happening in your city when it comes to public safety. But when data isn’t shared or disseminated, crimes like illegal drug use, hit and runs, muggings, and graffiti are harder to track and get under control. You may have video cameras or other tracking devices installed in strategic locations, so you can monitor activity around the city or in high-security sites. With so many devices, the challenge becomes knowing where to look, and when. You also need to be able to capture and share that information, in near real time, with police and fire crews, utilities managers, parking enforcement and other critical city departments that are tasked with protecting your community and its assets. And storing and transmitting large data files can bog down your network. Plus, in the event of a disaster or crime, you need to be able to retrieve video and other data from surrounding areas and piece it together, so you can better understand and respond. That’s why we offer a suite of solutions that fit together to help improve safety and provide evidence to convict criminals.

With our Intelligent Video solution, you’ll know when and where something of interest occurs and receive a notification when it happens. You’ll also be able to leverage powerful analytics to bring together disparate data and automate the ability to quickly identify loitering, illegal dumping and other dangerous activities. Intelligent Video is a comprehensive remote monitoring solution that provides situational awareness by leveraging advanced edge analytics and alerts to proactively identify threats. When suspicious activity is detected, an alert is immediately sent to authorized personnel, enabling rapid response. Intelligent Video features a cloud-hosted video management server, hardware, video analytics software, local storage devices and wireless connectivity. Cameras capture high-quality video, which is analyzed to identify unusual or abnormal behavior and trigger alerts. This all means reduced reaction times, increased clarity and greater insight into events. And safer, more livable cities.

Verizon Real Time Response System gives you a “bird’s-eye view” of possible criminal activity in your area. It gives you a holistic view of your city at any given moment and it’s a key component of our Safe City initiative. Real Time Response System is a decision-support solution that integrates large amounts of data from multiple siloed systems, such as computer-aided dispatch, video sensors, record management systems, gunshot detection systems, video management systems, geographic information systems and third-party databases. It compiles data from these systems and provides city agencies with a consolidated, accurate and near real-time, map-based view of what’s happening in the city. Through the integration of multiple technologies, Real Time Response System enhances situational awareness and helps improve decision making, which helps law enforcement personnel to rapidly identify and respond to threats. And with Real Time Response System, you don’t have to burden your staff with IT management. We’ll handle integrating and managing the unified platform that blends multiple public safety information systems into one intuitive solution. You’ll have a comprehensive dashboard that enhances situational awareness and provides you with the data you need to rapidly respond to emerging situations, execute everyday operations and manage special events.

Verizon Gunshot Detection gives law enforcement officials a smarter and faster way to respond to possible crime in their communities. It helps them better pinpoint where a possible shooting may have taken place. Acoustic sensors are deployed throughout a specific area or areas of a city that allow law enforcement personnel to monitor possible gun violence. These sensors help identify the gunshot’s location using triangulation of the sound and capture a short audio clip. The clip is then delivered to the Incident Review Center, where acoustic experts review and validate within 60 seconds that it is an actual gunshot. This gunshot detection SaaS solution immediately sends an alert to dispatch centers and officers in the field, and maps the location of the shot(s) within 25 meters. Street-level views provide officers with increased tactical awareness of the area.

Verizon Evidence Management is a new solution developed based on hours of collaboration with law enforcement personnel and is specifically designed to solve the significant challenges that were experienced after the Boston Marathon bombing. The solution helps law enforcement personnel rapidly collect, analyze and share various types of digital data from multiple sources, including photos and videos from citizens, to be used as evidence in their cases. The solution acts as a force multiplier, allowing agencies to collaborate better as they load, store, analyze and distribute a broad range of digital assets (video, audio, images) to pursue criminals, expedite case resolution and effectively prosecute suspects.

Getting information out into the community is a challenge for many cities. Residents and visitors alike need quick access to transit, restaurant, business, emergency and community information. Sometimes you also need to quickly push specific information, say a street closing or bad weather warning, particularly in central areas and dense urban communities. Verizon Digital Kiosks are the perfect way to connect people with their communities.

The Verizon Smart Communities portfolio combines digital kiosks and multiple interactive smart city technologies into one platform, to provide high-speed public Wi-Fi and two-way emergency-calling capabilities and to deliver essential community information and services. You can use them as digital billboards for jobs, events, wayfinding and near real-time transit information. It’s an innovative way to transform how your city engages with the public, and how the public engages with your city. They humanize the experience of interacting with city services and local businesses, and provide an engaging interface that delights as much as it informs.

Every city’s solution is going to be unique to its specific needs and challenges, but we thought we would share a few of our Smart Communities success stories.

We’ve continued to expand the number of cities covered by our Smart Communities solutions, and we are currently deployed in 55 cities and communities across four continents.

In 2011, when the city of Kansas City planned to build a streetcar rail system to handle its burgeoning influx of traffic and visitors after opening a multi-use indoor arena that revitalized its once desolate downtown, city planners had a lot more in mind than just a simple means of transportation to connect discrete downtown neighborhoods. Taking advantage of an open underground during the construction of the rail system, Kansas City installed a tremendous amount of fiber and electrical systems, and invited corporate partners to make use of the additional infrastructure to build smart city solutions for the citizens of Kansas City. The goal: “We wanted to provide 21st-century citizens with a 21st-century platform in which to live and thrive,” says Bob Bennett, Kansas City’s Chief Innovation Officer.

Decrease global greenhouse gas emissions
Verizon is one of the many partners who answered Kansas City’s smart city call, providing several of the solutions that earned the city its title of “most connected city in the world.” Blanketing Kansas City’s downtown with 172 Intelligent Lighting core nodes and 122 Intelligent Video nodes, Verizon provides critical services and data, to help: Reduce energy costs Ensure operational integrity of the city’s light-rail system by detecting poorly parked vehicles Improve public safety Manage street parking Gather data on pedestrian and vehicle traffic to inform infrastructure planning and economic development Decrease global greenhouse gas emissions “What they [citizens] really care about is that their trash gets picked up faster, their commute is shorter, their roads are safer and their emissions footprint is smaller.” —Bob Bennett, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Kansas City

In 2016, Washington, DC wanted to build a proof of concept and start creating an environment where it could deploy multiple smart city solutions and see how they performed individually and together. While the goal was to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and improve citizen experiences, of utmost concern and importance was preserving privacy and security.

In 2016, Washington, DC launched Pennsylvania Avenue 2040 (PA2040), a smart city pilot initiative with the goal of enhancing citizen experience in the nation’s capital. Using Internet of Things (IoT) technology and Verizon solutions, the city deployed both Intelligent Lighting and Intelligent Video along a 3x3 block area of Pennsylvania Avenue west of the White House, where it had just installed a ubiquitous gigabit public Wi-Fi network. It installed 76 intelligent core node LED luminaires—73 of which are Wi-Fi and three of which are cellular—and 20 Intelligent Video nodes. Energy savings from the LEDs were immediate. Replacing traditional high-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps with energy-efficient LED luminaires in and of itself reduces energy costs by as much as 50% to 70%. But the benefit of an intelligent lighting solution is a lot more than just energy savings. Prior to installing the intelligent lighting solution, when a light malfunctioned, the city had to wait for a 311 call to inform them of a failure, resulting in an average of 24 to 72 hours before a fix could be made. With an intelligent lighting solution in place, remote monitoring can detect an impending malfunction, allowing the city to repair the light before a failure, and usually in under 24 hours before a 311 call. In the PA2040 pilot, 76 HPS street lamps were replaced with LED smart-node luminaires along Pennsylvania Avenue. There are roughly 75,000 HPS lamps in all of DC; the plan is to replace all of them with LED smart-node luminaires, which could reduce energy costs by up to 80%. The city also installed 20 Intelligent Video nodes for the PA2040 pilot for parking management solutions. When 30% of traffic congestion in urban areas can be attributed to drivers looking for parking,1 the ability to quickly and accurately find a parking space can not only reduce traffic congestion, but can also reduce fuel emissions from vehicles searching the blocks for open spots. The city’s pilot includes a trial where a smartphone-based application, such as MapQuest, can display a map of open parking spots on a block-by-block basis in near real time, a solution that works in both rural and urban locales, with obvious benefits in commuter-heavy areas. In addition to parking solutions, the video nodes were also able to capture traffic and jaywalking counts at specific intersections, which led the city to implement the Verizon Intersection Safety Analytics (ISA) solution in its next phase of PA2040. ISA provides 24/7 data and analytics that give insights into how cities and transportation leaders can improve the safety of citizens sharing intersections. As accurate analytics are critical to providing safer intersections and infrastructure planning, having better compute technology allows for a more robust overall solution. So Washington, DC, has recently added 4K video nodes (VN4K) along the PA2040 footprint to provide the extra compute power for better analytics. And maintaining the privacy of residents and visitors is exactly what is being delivered. Metadata – in the context of IoT – focuses only on the analytics of objects in motion and is specifically designed to anonymize, rather than personalize data. In essence, the purpose of metadata is to count without watching. 1

Boston’s Vision Zero strategy is a bold move to use technology to vastly improve traffic safety. Boston’s ultimate aim is to eliminate traffic fatalities citywide by 2030.

In order to achieve this life-saving goal, the city of Boston deployed a pilot version of the Verizon Vision Zero solution (Intersection Safety Analytics) at the Massachusetts Avenue and Beacon Street intersection in order to gain valuable insights about potential hazards so that safety and traffic-flow improvements could be made. A combination of the Verizon Intelligent Lighting, Intelligent Video and Intelligent Traffic Management solutions was used to aid Boston in its Vision Zero endeavor. Highlights of the solution include: Outfitting the intersection with 36 cameras, 34 in-ground vehicle and six above-ground bike sensors (which detect objects and activities at the intersection), and four new intelligent LEDs Installing an analytics and data collection cloud-based application to correlate collected data and create algorithms to highlight “trigger” interactions, which would allow the city to identify “near- miss” accidents in order to improve safety conditions Accelerating the deployment of small-cell networks to extend 4G LTE coverage in the greater Boston area, which also helps lay the groundwork for launching our 5G network in the city Since the deployment of the pilot solution, the city of Boston has already made key changes, such as reducing speed limits to 25 mph in impacted areas, adding parking-protected bike lanes, and enforcing jaywalking rules to prevent pedestrians from unsafe intersection crossing. “As part of our Vision Zero effort … we are working with Verizon to test several smart cities services. Our goal is to capture aggregated data that helps us better understand the hazards on our roads. We’ll use this information to decide on what changes we need to make.” –Mayor Martin J. Walsh, City of Boston

Verizon and the city of Sacramento co-created solutions to address some of the city’s greatest areas of concern for the community and agreed on terms for a Public Private Partnership (PPP) on June 2, 2017. The program will deliver a safer, more mobile and more sustainable city by providing private-sector small-cell infrastructure investment, technology and implementation expertise, as well as streamlined permitting processes to install this technology efficiently. Verizon Smart Communities solutions also provide best-in-class security, data and privacy management designed to foster growth and opportunity, and minimize risk and cost for the city.

Verizon solutions include:
Helping the city with this initiative by improving visibility and insights at key intersections through a combination of sensors, surveillance cameras and data analytics using Intersection Safety Analytics and Real Time Response System. These solutions will identify near misses, violations and other incidents that can occur at an intersection, which could potentially cause an accident, related to times of day or particular events Addressing traffic congestion through deployment of our Intelligent Traffic Management and Traffic Data Services solutions, which provide the detection and analytics to optimize signal timing, decrease congestion, improve public transit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions Helping to bridge the digital divide by providing free municipal Wi-Fi access in 27 of Sacramento’s public parks Driving 5G connectivity with a significant infrastructure investment throughout Sacramento ( will-be-verizons-first-5g-city.html) “This partnership will serve as a critical step in upgrading our city’s infrastructure to support the newest and best technology, and the economic growth that comes with that technology.” —Darrell Steinberg, Mayor of Sacramento

San Jose leadership wanted to improve the city’s information technology (IT) infrastructure, and support a state-of-the-art, digitally connected community for businesses, residents and visitors.

Verizon is deploying fiber and small cells, as well as making significant monetary investments in the city’s Digital Inclusion Fund, and providing several smart city applications, focusing on traffic management. These investments by Verizon also lay the groundwork for the eventual introduction of 5G services. “Upgrading San Jose’s broadband infrastructure is key to building a smarter city, advancing our long-term economic competitiveness, and connecting residents who lack access to affordable, high-quality internet service,” said Mayor Sam Liccardo. “I’d like to thank Verizon for this large investment towards improving service for our residents and businesses, and for their sizable contribution into our Digital Inclusion Fund. We are excited to work with Verizon to lay the foundation for future technology growth in San Jose and achieve our Smart City Vision.” Verizon and San Jose are working together to improve the city’s IT infrastructure. This includes deploying fiber and attaching small cells to city-owned light poles. Verizon also provides the city with three smart city solutions, focused on intersection safety, traffic data and parking space management. These solutions are designed to provide the city with data to both improve motorist and pedestrian safety, and better manage and monitor parking. Verizon Connect services also help the city’s vehicle fleet. See press release:

The city of Oklahoma City’s metro area is more than double the size of New York City. But because the tax base is much smaller, city planners needed an economical way to connect, monitor and manage the city’s far-flung traffic signals. They found it with Verizon.

Oklahoma City is currently not using a Smart Communities solution, but in theory, it could use one to conduct a traffic study to measure congestion times, traffic patterns and more, and then use the findings to determine optimal traffic light timing and then implementing Verizon Wireless Private Network to control them. The city has better traffic control using the Verizon Wireless Private Network: Connected modems at each intersection Proprietary traffic management software Wireless connectivity Secure data transmission 4G LTE speeds Remote device management “We’re able to centrally monitor and adjust traffic signal timing for every intersection.” — Dennis Haikin, ITS Project Manager, City of Oklahoma City Estimated drive-time savings with 300,000 vehicles commuting per day: 450,000 minutes of drive time saved each day means 3,125 days of drive time saved each week. Which ultimately means 445 years of drive time saved each year. The city’s commuters also experienced a 5% overall reduction in drive time. Air quality is up, and traffic congestion and gas consumption is down.

Like many attractive residential and visitor destinations, the city of Marietta is only getting denser. Which means higher demand and expectations for adequate and easy parking. When 30% of traffic congestion is a result of cars looking for parking,1 the importance of an effective parking optimization solution is obvious, as are the pain points of not having one.2 1 2

Currently, the city of Marietta has deployed the following Verizon smart city equipment and solutions: Solution: Parking optimization and lighting Equipment: Multiple dual-camera video nodes and energy-efficient core node LEDs Coverage area: Parking lot with 84 spots Current revenue structure: Two hours of free parking; thereafter citation Goal: Prove occupancy rates for future revenue policy and current infrastructure planning Backstory Long story short, the city of Marietta originally partnered with several companies, all of whom had unique and innovative solutions that used several technologies to gather various analytics, such as indoor population density, outdoor in-ground sensor information, and streetlight-mounted video cameras. The latter technology—streetlight-based cameras—proved to be the most useful for Marietta’s needs in determining parking occupancy rates. However, when things didn’t work as expected, Marietta soon ran into an issue where, one by one, the original vendors took a step back, one not wanting to take responsibility for the other. About this time, Verizon took over. The challenge was that Marietta needed to demonstrate parking occupancy rates. There still existed a disconnect between the perception that parking had become increasingly difficult to find and the fact that several free lots still had multiple spots available. As such, it became even more important that the extrapolated information from the existing hardware be accurate, as that data would be used to inform policy. Specifically, what Marietta needed was to be able to demonstrate how many cars were parking in the free lot at a given time, how long those cars were staying, and whether and how often the cars were overstaying their two-hour limits. Conjecture vs. analytics The city of Marietta was surprised at the actual results. Some facts that came to light when Marietta began to gather analytics: • People were parking their cars longer than the specified two-hour limit due to the parking enforcement unit’s inability to visit every space within a two-hour window • Contrary to popular belief, there were times when parking was not as scarce as perceived • In the mornings, parking occupancy was higher in the corner of the lot closest to Starbucks Next steps Based on the analytics Marietta obtained from the original pilot program of their parking lot, their next steps entail expanding parking optimization using the new Verizon 4K wide-view video nodes for additional parking locations that will support their new marketplace due to open in the spring of 2019, as well as augmenting required lighting needs that promote citizen safety.

Verizon provides holistic solutions, a unique set of capabilities, resources and scale to help you create the smart city of the future. We offer end-to-end, citywide managed services with a specialized portfolio of solutions for individual projects. We have the expertise, experience and end-to-end capabilities to execute, as well as a specialized portfolio of focused solutions that can scale for any individual project. This holistic approach makes Verizon a complete solutions provider that understands your community’s needs and can deploy smart community solutions for any challenge and for communities of any size.

At the end of the day—whether it’s citizen experience, safety and security, or sustainability and efficiency—no one can match the quality and breadth of resources that Verizon can deliver. We’ve got the broadest range of advanced hardware, software and services to cover your city’s needs. We offer managed services and financing programs to help you fund, deploy and operate your smart city infrastructure efficiently. We even bring the analytics and expertise to help you transform the data delivered by our smart solutions into actionable information. We look forward to speaking with you about how we can best partner moving forward.

Our goal is to improve the quality of life for people living in cities around the world, while increasing operational efficiency and lowering costs. Our Smart Communities offerings are more than just a group of innovative solutions; they are manifestations of our passion. We are fiercely dedicated to creating technologies that help improve quality of life, by helping to increase safety, reduce congestion, promote citizen/government engagement, bridge the digital divide and minimize environmental impact. Smart Communities is in our DNA. We have proven experience in deploying technology in cities, and we put that experience to work for you. We design, deploy, execute and manage everything from citywide programs to individual projects—all running on the nation’s largest and most reliable 4G LTE network. Our aim is to foster true partnerships and work collaboratively to empower long-term change and continuous evolution. Even as we design, deploy, execute and manage engagements across the U.S., we’re laying the groundwork for future innovations like 5G, AI and vehicle to everything (V2X). We don’t wait for the future, we build it. Most importantly, we listen, we learn and we adapt to what you need.

Our technology investment strategy is aligned to four key areas:
5G and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) Our aim is to foster true partnerships and work collaboratively to empower long-term change and continuous evolution. Even as we design, deploy, execute and manage engagements across the U.S., we’re laying the groundwork for future innovations, like 5G, AI and V2X. We don’t wait for the future, we build it. Lighting infrastructure as a sensor hub With a forward-thinking view, we make use of existing city assets to provide and deploy a wealth of smart city solutions. With the Verizon City Hub, an LTE/Wi-Fi‒enabled device, you can simplify power and connectivity for street lights and other IoT devices. It adds high-bandwidth edge processing capabilities and provides a platform for future smart city solutions like Intersection Safety Analytics, Parking Optimization and more. Computer vision analytics Computer-vision analytics provides a better option for our solution over regular video streaming because it uses less bandwidth. Computer-vision analytics looks at the data and then sends relevant information back as metadata, which is not as bandwidth-intensive as streaming video. It also works better than in-ground sensors, which are prone to damage due to weather, road construction and wear and tear. Using computer vision analytics also helps us preserve driver privacy; it scans only cars parking, not license plates or drivers’ faces. NetSense city data platform NetSense provides a platform for aggregating and making available data gathered from Verizon Smart Communities solutions. Our goal is to enable cities to be able to easily pull this data into a central repository and quickly draw insights.

Verizon is committed to remaining the nation’s #1 network.
Total amount of the investments Verizon Wireless has made in its network infrastructure Verizon is committed to remaining the nation’s #1 network. The foundation of the products and support we offer our public safety partners is our 2.58-million-square-mile 4G LTE network. We invest billions of dollars in our nationwide networks every year—more than $126 billion on our wireless network alone since This means unparalleled reliability and coverage for our customers. We continually expand network services and capacity, so we’re ready for the innovations of the future. We’re prepared for tomorrow’s even faster and more powerful networks, including 5G, which will take first-responder communications technologies to a new level. Our LTE in Rural America (LRA) program provides public safety agencies in rural areas with access to the same advanced 4G LTE services. 5G info:

Verizon enables multiple smart city solutions with a smart pole or light pole as a sensor hub.
Our City Hub, a lighting-control device, can be easily installed on LED luminaire photo receptacles for remote monitoring and control, and enables lighting infrastructure as a platform for smart city solutions. City Hub has embedded cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity, along with expansion ports for adding new sensors to the pole. This enables cities to provide power and connectivity for video nodes, audio nodes, environmental sensors and more. This forms the basis for multiple smart city solutions, such as: Video surveillance Intelligent Lighting Traffic—Intersection Safety Analytics Parking Optimization Gunshot Detection Vehicle to infrastructure Environmental monitoring

Computer vision as a multipurpose sensor helps gather actionable intelligence from its surroundings to fuel smart city solutions. It combines a variety of sensors together, including optical sensors that can be stationary or mobile, to capture and store images. Once captured, these images are then converted into digital information for data analytics that can provide useful insights to power solutions like Parking Optimization. For example, computer vision could take images of parking spaces in a designated geographical area over a certain time period. These images would then be converted into digital data for the parking optimization manager to use to spot parking trends and determine peak usage and space availability.

Smart Communities Internet of Things (IoT) platform challenges:
Smart city solutions require complex application logic and analytics across various verticals Connected smart cities demand a secure platform that is monitored and scales to their needs Platform must support managed services across multiple large city deployments Vision and product value proposition: World-class data and business application platform powering smart city applications and services Enables complete set of vertical services across lighting, parking, traffic and public safety. Multitenant from the ground up; built for scale, serving multiple large cities across all vertical services Provides real-time analytics and event correlation processing for application awareness

Here at Verizon, we believe that when it comes to quality of life, there is immeasurable promise and unlimited potential in cities to leverage smart city technology. And at the heart of that promise are people. That’s why improving the lives of people is a focus and a priority for us—and why it will always be at the core of our business. By partnering with visionary city leaders, we are helping to transform communities into safer, cleaner, more inclusive and more enjoyable places to live and thrive. Verizon services 149 million wireless customers across the United States, as well as thousands of government customers. Verizon presents a holistic offering with scalable solutions. Verizon is the technology partner that offers end-to-end, citywide managed services with a specialized portfolio of solutions for individual projects. We have the expertise, experience and end-to-end capabilities to execute the largest citywide managed services contract, as well as a specialized portfolio of focused solutions that can scale for any individual project. This holistic approach makes Verizon a complete solutions provider that understands your community’s needs and can deploy smart community solutions for any challenge and for communities of any size.

Verizon offers a comprehensive set of solutions that, combined with our expertise and managed services, can help you tackle these challenges, end to end. We’re not selling technology looking for a problem; these solutions were created specifically to meet your city’s needs. They include solutions for: Lighting Public safety Traffic Parking Citizen engagement Let’s start with Intelligent Lighting and the ways that can help you.

Cities and communities continue to face the challenges of improving sustainability and efficiency, maintaining a high standard of livability, and protecting citizens and enhancing their experiences. To solve these challenges, smart solutions built on innovative new technologies, like Internet of Things (IoT), the cloud and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, can help city and community leaders better meet the needs of their citizens. Verizon Smart Communities is a portfolio of integrated solutions built on IoT, cloud and M2M technologies that are designed to help leaders plan and deliver citizen services more efficiently, while improving the quality of life in their cities and communities. In addition, we’ve also acquired companies like Sensity, an IoT-based platform that supports intelligent LED sensors and other solutions for smart communities, and other companies like Yahoo and AOL that help round out our portfolio. Our Smart Communities solutions allow you to collect and analyze critical information about your city or community, giving you greater visibility into how they operate. With these insights, you can make better, more-informed decisions and respond more quickly to your city’s or community’s challenges or citizens’ needs. These solutions can help solve a number of the issues you may face, whether it’s more illumination for your streets, video to show you what’s happening and where, improving traffic flow, using data to increase traffic safety, optimizing parking spaces, or delivering engaging content and information to the public. When a city is a truly smart city, it is able to collect data from IoT and connected machine technologies. Communities can benefit from revenue generation opportunities; make efficient use of limited resources; and attract businesses, residents and workers. We’ve talked with many city leaders around the country about their challenges, from traffic congestion in Boston to installing sensors in Kansas City and Washington, DC. And we heard common initiatives they’re undertaking to tackle their challenges, including: Citizen experiences—making cities more livable while enabling people to participate fully Public safety and security—increasing perception of safety and protecting critical assets from threats Sustainability and efficiency—using resources more effectively while minimizing environmental impacts as growth accelerates

With our Intelligent Lighting solutions, you can manage your lights: Turn them on and off; dim them; and set timers, schedules and motion tracking. And you can change any of those parameters based on your needs at any given time. Plus, you’re conserving energy while gaining functionality. That’s a way to improve the sustainability in your city. And, as with our other solutions, you’ll also gain the benefits of analytics, such as temperature and energy monitoring, which can help you better understand how your lighting works. And better equip you to make informed, cost-saving decisions. Compared to conventional street lighting, LEDs have demonstrated savings of up to 50% to 70%, and up to 80% when combined with smart sensors and controls. This is based on a study conducted in 12 cities around the world, including New York, London, Kolkata and Sydney, by The Climate Group: Our solution also offers easy maintenance: You know exactly when and where a light has gone out, which helps to improve safety and livability. And, ultimately, transforming your lighting with our sensors is a vehicle to our other solutions, and in that way helps you cover more than a single need with just a single install. Plus, Intelligent Lighting offers many public safety benefits: Detect movements and low-light conditions and automatically adjust brightness of light Strengthen public safety with sensory alerts for abnormal activity through the NetSense platform

Easily gather better information.
Unlike other traffic study methods, Traffic Data Services is flexible enough to allow you to customize the scope of your study—from national to state to zone, and everything in between—without added hardware costs. Verizon Traffic Data Services can be easily configured in a variety of different ways. With Traffic Data Services, you can monitor and gather location data. There aren’t any capital costs for hardware. There’s also no need to cause further disruption to traffic by installing sensors or other equipment. Our cost-effective solution for smart transportation management includes: Live traffic management Congestion mitigation Travel surveys for trip times Origin-destination studies (can be from junction level to country level, as shown on this slide) Traffic impact studies Traffic signal tuning Congestion root-cause analysis Mass-transit planning, such as hubs, airports, bus terminals, train stations, etc.

The LTE Core Node (Core Node EX-C LTE) forms the foundation of the NetSense solution, delivering a high-speed, sensor-based IoT platform that supports a number of smart city applications. The node converts LED fixtures into intelligent focal centers, providing actionable insights that go far beyond illumination and mere granular lighting control. Now, innovative cloud-based IoT services are available at your fingertips.

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