CLICK TO WATCH : ‘ CITY OF STOCKHOLM – SMART AND CONNECTED ’ 37 infrastructure in the energy sector , buildings management , mobility and transport systems or air-quality monitoring , then leverage this information to make a city more efficient , sustainable and better for its residents ,” says Paul Brodrick , Business Development Director for Digitalisation , at Siemens . “ With IoTtype sensors placed everywhere to collect useful data , the massive amount of information generated has to be communicated , analysed and fed back to the infrastructure to affect changes in how smart cities operate .”
As cities become increasingly saturated with IoT , generating vast quantities of data on an hourly basis , it ’ s becoming clearer that 5G will play a pivotal role in handling these oceans of information and turning them into a shorter wait at the traffic lights , or less water wastage . “ 5G heralds the arrival of ultra-low latency – the ability for a machine or device to respond instantly with our 5G network – and advances in mobile edge computing to bring critical business and healthcare services much closer to our customers ,” notes Scott Petty , CTO of Vodafone UK .
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