Understanding The Smart City Market [White Paper]

Smart City Technology Market

• Hardware (Device) Vendors
• Controls and Sensors Vendors
• Software Vendors and Integrators
• Network Connectivity Vendors
• All-in-One Vertical System Vendors

Key Criteria to Consider

1. Core Features
   Each smart city system is different, but most offer similar basic functionality. For street lighting systems, these include remote control, energy monitoring, fixture performance monitoring, adaptive lighting and the ability to activate other sensors for smart city applications.
2. Interoperability and openness
   Interoperability is the key to any smart city system. It ensures that a city is not dependent on a single vendor for all its critical systems and creates additional value when different systems work together. A few types of open systems will be discussed, including:
   • Openness in Hardware & Controls
   • Openness in Network Connectivity
   • Openness in Software
3. Future readiness
   In any large smart infrastructure project, system selection is at the top of the priority list. It is therefore essential to think about the types of technologies that the chosen system could support in the future, and which ensure its future evolution.

Finally, this white paper provides you with a summary table on openness and future scalability in smart city systems that can even be used as a checklist when selecting suppliers or preparing an RFP.