Cisco, Sprint, Kansas City Announce Agreement To Deploy Smart+Connected City Framework
Kansas City, Missouri, and Cisco signed an agreement to deploy a Smart+Connected City framework to transform urban municipal services, said a Cisco news release. As part of the framework, Cisco said it's working with a group of business partners to bring together an ecosystem to develop applications including smart lighting, digital kiosks, a development data portal, and smart water innovation development. Sprint will also deploy Cisco hardware to construct and manage an intelligent Wi-Fi network that will serve as the backbone of the connectivity platform, Cisco said.