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most convenient parts of the city for the highest amount of revenue opportunity. I can open up the bid based on what I think is reasonable and offer various bidding opportunities, such as a 24-hour bid or a three-day bid. Regardless, the opportunity is there for citizens to determine if they are willing to pay $40, for example, to park directly in front or if they would pay the parking garage $20 to park a quarter of a mile away. The beauty of this is that I have now moved from a $2 or $3 meter to a $20 or $40 revenue opportunity against the same parking spaces. This is an excellent example of a city being smarter in delivering digital services to its citizens. A process as simple as bidding out parking spots and giving a valuation on a space based on its convenience could potentially generate 1,000 times what it would if it only utilized credit card meters.
This example can also be applied
to water meters, gas meters, energy efficiency, and many other scenarios. The key is determining how much intelligence can be driven toward insight as you monitor what you measure. Such can be done through sensor technologies that physically attach onto or in the vicinity of a physical object or infrastructure that creates the ability to mimic or control data collected from the state of that particular object. Over time, it will drive down overall costs because cities will be able to move toward a predictive state. This will give the city the ability to leverage its R&D investment to address any problems versus going into a deep state of analysis to try to figure out what’s going on. Patterns of recognition can be
derived based on the data that particular sensors send back to home base, where data is being collected against every object and piece of infrastructure equipment available. In turn, the city’s next generation product will be that much smarter because it is harnessing insights from its products in real time to drive what happens next in terms of the next generation of product innovation. That, to me, is a smart city. S
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