Internet of Things (IoT) via Broadband will enable smart campus and smart cities for the first time in 21st century. This next big broadband movements will enables, a world of billions of intelligent, networked sensors and devices that produces the data ingredients for major advancements in environmental intelligence, automation, predictability and ubiquitous connectivity. There now are forward-thinking cities managing everything from vehicle traffic flows to air-quality controls with the aid of real-time sensors communicating over broadband networks.
One of the related ideas in this area is to use these vast connected, ubiquitously intelligent webs to get out front on natural disasters, in terms of information, and to use the networks to mitigate the often dire outcomes of heavy snow, tornados, hurricanes and fires.Smart cities today have the tools to battle these disasters and not allow citizens to succumb to their harsh aftereffects.
