A university is a small city in itself: There’s lighting, waste management, traffic control. That means, when researchers look to optimize a campus, they can simultaneously build a “smart cities” proof of concept for a municipality.
It’s a logical fit. “Universities are often at the cutting edge of technology. What they lack is a city use case,” says Chris Lucero, technology and design director for The Connective, a smart city consortium for the greater Phoenix region. Cities meanwhile “have resource constraints and budget issues but would like to pilot new technologies to solve municipal problems.”
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