Officials have developed a strategy that aims at achieving the long-term vision of a truly connected smart city. The city and Cisco, a multinational corporation technology company, recently completed a pilot project (PA 2040) that brought smart street lighting, sensors and a public gigabit Wi-Fi network to an area near the White House and reduced lighting energy costs by 50 percent. The next step is to transform Washington into a “lighthouse city”. The project will replace the district’s 70,000 streetlights with sensor-equipped smart streetlights. The PA 2040 also will address public safety, smart parking, environmental sensors as well as water and waste management.
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