Cisco has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Living PlanIT, a urban technology company that enables intelligent sustainable urban development and operations, to create smart, sustainable communities of the future in Portugal.
According to Cisco, the collaboration would bring together its Smart+Connected Communities architectures and Living PlanIT’s technology for the development and operations of PlanIT Valley, a next generation intelligent sustainable community in the Municipality of Paredes, northern Portugal, and a Portuguese Project of National Importance (PIN).
In addition, the collaboration would provide future cities with technology that will enable new methods of hosted and managed services within public-private partnerships and is designed to change physical communities to connected communities running on networked information.
Further, the PlanIT Valley will be built on Living PlanIT’s repeatable modular technology and materials platform and is designed to enable the convergence of computing, network and sensing technologies with the fabric of buildings and places, demonstrated at urban scale in the development and operations of PlanIT Valley.
Cisco said that it will provide application networking, digital media, mobility, routing and switching, data center, IP interoperability and communication systems, security, storage networking, TelePresence, unified communications, video, virtualisation and related services, in addition to providing the network infrastructure for Living PlanIT’s Xtreme Construction (XTCTM) and Urban Operating System (UOSTM) platforms.
Wim Elfrink, chief globalisation officer and executive vice president for Cisco Services, said: "Our collaboration will help develop new business models for managing and delivering urban services using the network as the platform for transforming cities and communities.
"Everything connected to the network in these Smart+Connected Communities can be greener, more intelligent and more secure."
