Start by fast and hyperconnected city!
The 2021 Mayoral Manifesto pledged to create an Emerging Technology Charter for London was motivated by the premise that only now we reached the correct timing to build a Smart City due 5G will enable a new paradigm shift. Currently coined as Cognitive City, that paradigm shift will only be possible in cities with a proper 5G infrastructure.
5G Lampposts: outdoor infrastructure
5G infrastructure is different from 4G: it requires more proximity!
5G network has a smaller range. Installing 5G antennas where the city has 4G simply will not work. For a city, it means new ways to get more revenue from the public space! But city design also needs to not overload the streets with new poles with more antennas.
Our proposal is to install 5G in existing lampposts: not only will deliver the proximity 5G requires but will also provide the communication infrastructure to turn it into a smart lamppost!
Build a Cognitive City!
5G neural network city
By using 5G lampposts and bringing the correct proximity range of this network we are creating the basis for a massive adoption of 5G. Buildings will also use 5G increasing the proximity and accessibility of the network while opening a completely new world of living possibilities. Concepts like living buildings, self-managed home robotics, and cognitive houses combined with self-driving vehicles communicating with each other (vehicle-to-vehicle communication) in real-time video using generative AI to train us exactly on what we need to know at the moment we need to solve a situation are just some possible nearby futures.
5G Neural Network City
AI on 5G!
A neural 5G infrastructure is at the core of all these possibilities. It combines distinct levels of edge computing equipped with machine learning and MLL capabilities in order to take the proper actions with a higher level of prediction and problem mitigation for the local communities. This local AI edge computing infrastructure is connected to the cloud feeding the Digital Twin City platform with actionable predictions. There, the city planning cognitive engine will orchestrate all local AI edge computing nodes to locally act according to main city directives.
Pioneer cities building a 5G infrastructure will lead the cognitive cities paradigm
The Cognitive City infrastructure
There is a simple reason why only now is happening this Smart City paradigm shifted towards Cognitive: infrastructure and technology advancements!
Produced in June 2020 by the UK’s Digital Catapult, the report concluded that the city was at a tipping point where 5G is going to take off and, in turn, enable artificial intelligence, a broader internet of things, larger networks, and that these technologies lay the foundation for a whole range of applications and services, or by other words: lay the foundation for a cognitive city.
The Cognitive city uses 5G hyperspeed connectivity, edge computing and AI to shift the urban living paradigm.
Something that only now can we start planning. But the plan’s first stage has to be building this new advanced infrastructure!
Similar to Energy Transition, InnovateCity, can partner with cities to Build, Own, Operate and Transfer this Digital Transformation towards a Cognitive City.
5G infrastructure
Ultrafast and hyper-connected city.
AI city sensing
Beyond the Internet of Things (IoT) to Intelligence of Things!
City Digital Twin
The city becomes a learning platform for sustainable development.