Today, most applications used by city residents and visitors to BID’s, sits on the cloud operating from server “farms” across the country. Although most end-users don’t see the inherited latency as the data travels between the cloud servers and their mobile devices, most cities are keenly aware of the latency and the impact it has on public safety services like connectivity, security cameras and download and uploading mission critic files.
At the end of 2019, the total free Wi-Fi traffic amounted to about 3,437 million gigabytes. The traffic volume is forecast to grow around threefold by 2023. As of the leading Municipal Wi-Fi companies in the nation, creating a localized workforce to help install and maintain our networks, as one of our core tenors over the past ten years.
Traditionally, Business Improvement Districts and Municipalities have leveraged cellular services to connect security cameras, pedestrian counters and sensors to capture critical data. The issue of using cellular service is that cost often priced prohibitive, making it difficult for BID’s and Muni’s to scale.
Beyond providing connectivity and a branding presence, W-Fi can be leveraged for a series of BID specific applications. Our client base uses Wi-Fi to run security cameras, sensors, and pedestrian counters, to name a few. In the right creative hands, Wi-Fi can be leveraged to bring people back to the BID in a post COVID world, and one way is with Scavenger Hunts.
The sounds of revving engines and screeching tires have become a nightly occurrence across BID and cities, scrabbling already taxed police departments to conduct nightly radar patrols. In larger municipalities with gunshot sound detections, revving engines have caused a series of false positive, draining additional police resources.
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