Nokia has introduced three smart city services designed to help cities manage urbanisation challenges and enable operators to support digital city requirements: IoT for Smart Cities, Sensing as a Service, and Secure Mobile Virtual Network Operator (S‑MVNO) for Public Safety.
The first offering, IoT for Smart Cities, is a modular, scalable and fully integrated framework that uses cross-application data sharing, analytics and automation to deliver and control a wide range of urban services. It supports solutions such as video surveillance, smart lighting, parking management, waste collection optimization and environmental sensing, enabling more efficient operation and better allocation of city resources.
Sensing as a Service leverages blockchain to provide verified, real-time environmental data combined with intelligent analytics. This service gives operators the ability to monetize environmental and sensor-derived insights by selling them to enterprises, public safety agencies, municipal authorities and other stakeholders that rely on timely, trustworthy urban data.
The S‑MVNO for Public Safety offering enables operators to create new revenue streams by using their commercial LTE networks to deliver mission‑critical broadband services to public safety organizations. By extending existing network capabilities to support secure, prioritized communication for emergency responders, operators can address an important public sector need while diversifying their service portfolio.
Asad Rizvi, head of global services business development at Nokia, explained: “Cities must become more digital to deliver services effectively to residents. Shared, secure and scalable smart infrastructure is essential to ensure urban assets and data are used efficiently. We help cities build that infrastructure and help operators unlock new revenue by leveraging their existing networks to serve smart city stakeholders — from municipal and transport authorities to travel and public safety organizations.”
Those interested in seeing the solutions demonstrated can visit the Nokia Experience Center at Mobile World Congress 2018 in Hall 3, stand 3A10, to learn more about the company’s digital city portfolio.
In addition, Nokia collaborated with StarHub to develop mobility analytics use cases that allow operators to extract value from network data to address smart city challenges. Integrating these use cases into the Nokia AVA cognitive services platform enabled further co‑development and customization of the solution, which Nokia can now offer to operators worldwide.
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Interested in hearing industry leaders discuss topics like these and sharing their IoT use cases? Attend the IoT Tech Expo World Series events, which hold upcoming shows in Silicon Valley, London and Amsterdam. The conference includes dedicated tracks for smart cities and connected transportation, and is co‑located with AI & Big Data Expo, Cyber Security & Cloud Expo and Blockchain Expo, allowing attendees to explore the broader ecosystem in one place.