Business Reporter BrandVoice: Smart Cities That Reach The Upper Echelons Of Digital Living

Business Reporter BrandVoice: Smart Cities That Reach The Upper Echelons Of Digital Living

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By Steph Stoppenhagen, Director of Strategy & Innovation, Black & Veatch

Connected communities such as Bleutech Park Las Vegas are a tech-fan's dream – but without system integration, smart is a non-starter.

From the futurist visions of tech giants, entrepreneurs and technology integrators, smart cities are evolving far beyond sensor-outfitted light poles along sidewalks. Instead, their blueprints depict whole communities whose systems and services ebb and flow on waves of real-time data streams. Smart city plans now reach the upper echelons of digital living, and Bleutech Park Las Vegas (BTP) illustrates this well.

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BTP is a $7.5 billion development that bills itself as the world's first entirely sustainable, self-contained ecosystem. Built on digital platforms, BTP will use communication technologies to integrate and umpire critical systems such as water, energy and transportation. The resulting synergies – as well as a cache of cool apps, devices and technologies – will form a sustainable environment with the swagger of vintage Vegas.

Like all smart cities, data is the lifeblood of BTP. And this means that system integration is vital to build a secure, citizen-centric community that is flexible, sustainable and livable. 

Viva (smart) Las Vegas

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