Industry Solutions

Mobility and Wireless

The need to support mobile government employees and citizens is driving the technology demands of every state and local government office and agency. Even with the current fiscal uncertainty and budgetary challenges, states, cities and counties, are all placing a high value on engaging their citizens in ways that have become “business as usual” in the modern family. Funds available under the ARRA will drive rapid adoption of new wireless broadband networks that offer high-speed connectivity to a wide range of end users in both urban and remote geographic areas.

These new wireless networks will provide core services such as:

	Broadband Internet access
	Internet Protocol Telephony (IPT)
	Intelligent traffic management
	Public utilities support (e.g., automatic meter reading)
	Inspections applications (e.g., mobility for building inspectors)
	Networked video surveillance and applications that support emergency and public safety workers

An example of the cost-savings provided by innovative use of wireless technologies can be seen in the recent city-wide installation of an automated water meter reading system in New York City. The new wireless equipment the city installed is said to “end the use of estimated water bills, giving homeowners and small businesses more accurate and timely records of usage and could save residents more than $90 million annually and could support the retention or creation of more than 550 jobs in New York City”.

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