A Smart City in Action: Las Vegas
This video highlights Las Vegas' efforts to deploy "Smart City" technologies, which are enhancing mobility, reducing congestion, decreasing its carbon footprint, and stimulating economic growth. Hear how Las Vegas has deployed Cisco "Kinetic for Cities" IoT platform to achieve actionable information from its camera, mobile device & sensor network. For more information about Cisco Kinetic for Cities, contact us today.
What smart city goals is Las Vegas focusing on?
Las Vegas is using smart city technologies to
enhance everyday city operations and improve quality of life for residents and visitors. The city’s key goals include:
- Enhancing mobility: Making it easier and faster for people to move around the city.
- Reducing congestion: Using data from cameras and mobile device sensors to better manage traffic flows and reduce bottlenecks.
- Decreasing its carbon footprint: Cutting emissions by improving traffic efficiency and supporting more sustainable urban operations.
- Stimulating economic growth: Using data-driven insights to attract businesses, support innovation, and create new services.
By connecting and analyzing data from multiple sources, Las Vegas is reimagining how a modern city can operate more efficiently and sustainably.
How is Cisco Kinetic for Cities used in Las Vegas?
Las Vegas has deployed the
Cisco Kinetic for Cities IoT platform to turn raw data from city infrastructure into
actionable information.
Here’s how it is being used:
- Integrating data sources: The platform connects data from city cameras and a network of mobile device sensors.
- Creating real-time insights: It processes this data so city teams can see what’s happening on the streets in near real time.
- Supporting better decisions: With clearer visibility, the city can adjust traffic patterns, respond to incidents faster, and plan infrastructure investments more effectively.
In practice, Cisco Kinetic for Cities helps Las Vegas rethink how it manages mobility, congestion, and environmental impact by making city data easier to use and act on.
What benefits are residents and businesses seeing?
The smart city work in Las Vegas is designed to deliver
tangible, day-to-day benefits for people and organizations in the city:
- For residents and visitors:
- More predictable travel times due to better-managed congestion.
- Improved mobility options as the city uses data to optimize routes and flows.
- A smaller carbon footprint from more efficient traffic and city operations.
- For businesses and the local economy:
- A more attractive environment for investment, supported by data-driven city services.
- Opportunities to build new applications and services on top of the city’s IoT and data infrastructure.
By using Cisco Kinetic for Cities to connect cameras and mobile device sensors, Las Vegas is reshaping how it manages urban challenges and opening up new possibilities for economic growth and service innovation.
A Smart City in Action: Las Vegas
published by Whalley Computer Associates
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