SMART CITIES
Power to the people By Marc Pegulu, vice president of IoT product marketing and strategy for Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products Group
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mart cities are not just about technology, sensor networks or artificial intelligence. Smart buildings have to make life easier for the people that use them in a sustainable way. This is very different from a pure IT enterprise approach of bits and bytes, and the
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requirements of people are even more important to address. One of the key technologies for smart cities is wireless low power wide area networks (LPWAN). This is a key technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) that allows low power sensors to be deployed quickly and easily in smart buildings where data
needs to be collected in order to be of assistance to people. This can be monitoring how many people are in a room, or walking through a building, the temperature, the carbon dioxide levels, or any kind of data that is needed to help people feel more comfortable. This data needs to be collected and collated
