Florence, Arizona

phone saying you have a water leak of so many gallons at your home. And you can go through a mobile checklist of all the things to check to find the leak. In another Smart City initiative, we partnered with T-Mobile for sophisticated tracking of our vehicles and reporting of data back to our fleet management staff. “In our initial planning phase, we realized there would be a lot of data streaming through our LoRaWAN network. We needed a solid backbone to back-haul the collected data to centralized cloud servers. We partnered with Zayo, a provider of mission-critical lit and dark fiber infrastructure, with dense, high-quality networks in every major market in North America and Western Europe. To add redundancy, we also partnered with Airebeam, a Colorado based wireless Internet service provider and fiber provider. Through these partnerships we are well on our way to establishing a regional fiber loop as the backbone of our Smart City infrastructure.” BVM: How does Smart City technology play a role in protecting your Historic District?