ISE Magazine, August 2018
I S E I C T S O L U T I O N S E D U C AT I O N 3 2 SMART CITIES By Issa Asad It has been nearly 100 years since America crossed the demographic milestone where more people lived in cities than in rural areas Towns once considered the boondocks have become nearby suburbs and urban sprawl has led to giant metropolitan regions that span hundreds of miles and string together dozens of municipalities However despite the fact that we live in an always connected era many parts of the US are endangered by substandard infrastructure Here are 5 cities across the US that require attention CITY 1 Houston Texas In 2017 Texas made headlines for implementing Senate Bill 1004 which allowed the construction of network nodes in public rights of way While hotly debated these small connection points attached to light poles traffic signal poles and street sign poles do boost signal quality 1 Houston plans to install 1500 network nodes which will go far to improve connectivity however theres a complication a single carrier controls performance network reliability and network speed 2 On a daily basis this is not a concern However during an emergency its easy to imagine how one network providers Danger Zones 5 American Cities Need Major Network Upgrades
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