Tuesday 24 November 2015

Utilities and Smart Cities Join Forces

This is the second of a two-part series. Last week: The Smart City Common Denominator.

Some city officials and utility executives are already working together to help make their communities smarter and secure their future on the global economic stage.

Visionary Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, for instance, has focused on innovation as a way of attracting local businesses and investment to help win the talent war that has traditionally lured jobs away from the Midwest cities.Meanwhile, the electric energy provider serving Chicago, Commonwealth Edison, is contributing a $2.6 billion investment to modernize the state’s infrastructure and position Chicago as a smart city through the deployment of a multiple application IPv6 wireless network canopy. For the full article click here 



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