T-Mobile, Cradlepoint, Bosch target advanced IoT connectivity for smart cities - Connected Real Estate Magazine

Peachtree Corners, 1 of the archetypal U.S. astute cities, volition spot its visitant acquisition amended arsenic the collaboration volition present precocious IoT connectivity.

Cradlepoint, which provides cloud-delivered LTE and 5G wireless web borderline solutions worldwide, recently announced its collaboration with T-Mobile and the Curiosity Lab astatine Peachtree Corners, Georgia, to alteration precocious Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity solutions, specified arsenic self-driving vehicles, robotics, and augmented world and virtual reality, utilizing 5G Wireless WAN technology. Bosch and Cradlepoint developed the solution, which volition leverage T-Mobile’s 5G web on with Cradlepoint’s purpose-built wideband adapters and routers, to facilitate adjacent real-time parking and information monitoring astatine Peachtree Corners, 1 of the nation’s archetypal astute cities.

Companies and nationalist assemblage entities are well-positioned connected 5G cellular IoT connectivity’s value, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to securing, managing and enhancing astute cities. Cradlepoint’s 5G Wireless WAN solutions let for an full ecosystem of IoT partners to deploy solutions close distant with the information and distant absorption capabilities needed to enactment IoT deployments astatine scale. It’s a melodramatic displacement from accepted fibre connections that tin instrumentality months to deploy, outgo thousands of dollars and often travel with semipermanent contracts.

“Real-world deployments of IoT are challenging the presumption quo of existing solutions,” said Cradlepoint Chief Marketing Officer Todd Krautkremer. “Couple that with the inclination of businesses leveraging 5G exertion to transform, and you’ll spot however this precocious connectivity is remodeling the enterprise. Cradlepoint, T-Mobile and Bosch are astatine the forefront of this evolution, furthering IoT and 5G deployments for projects of each sizes.”

“Improving safety, efficiencies and anticipating the needs of customers is what best-in-class astute cities tin execute erstwhile powered by 5G and with innovators similar Cradlepoint,” added Chris Melus, Vice President of Product Management with T-Mobile for Business. “It’s rewarding to spot concepts from the Curiosity Lab, leveraging our 5G Advanced Network Solutions suite beryllium existent worth successful the existent world.”

The solution uses astir real-time IoT exertion that Bosch developed on with T-Mobile’s Ultra Capacity 5G web and Cradlepoint 5G hardware. Together, this exertion volition assistance Peachtree Corners shoppers and visitors find unfastened parking arsenic good arsenic disposable charging stations for electrical vehicles.

“In collaboration with T-Mobile and Cradlepoint, and our continued associated effort with the Curiosity Lab successful the City of Peachtree Corners, we are demonstrating a scalable, affordable, adroit AIoT solution to service the community,” said Lewis Stallworth, concern improvement manager astatine Bosch Security Systems LLC.  “The flexibility of this solution was lone imaginable with this technology-forward collaboration and is changing the speech of what is imaginable erstwhile determination is simply a request for parking management, retail management, assemblage information and existent assemblage operational analytics.”

The exertion besides volition assistance metropolis planners marque informed, real-time determination connected parking capacity, infrastructure planning, postulation absorption and information safeguards based connected information astir events happening passim the city, arsenic good arsenic amended the Peachtree Corners visitant experience.

“Through our enactment with Cradlepoint, Bosch and T-Mobile, we are present capable to amended negociate our nationalist spaces,” said Peachtree Corners CTO and Assistant City Manager Brandon Branham. “Cradlepoint devices having high-speed connectivity done T-Mobile’s 5G is cardinal – these devices present let america to usage astute parking applications done the Bosch cameras successful our Town Center, portion besides providing a information and information furniture for our constabulary department. The analytics these devices supply assistance america to amended pass with our residents astir parking and information successful our downtown area.”