A Conversation between our Smart Communities and Gigi Sohn, Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy and a Benton Senior Fellow & Public Advocate on the Infrastructure Bill

Cybersecurity problems tend to be undetectable until an incident occurs. A cybersecurity flaw can rear its head through a hijacked autonomous vehicle, an IoT device compromised via electromagnetic interference, a ransomware attack, or endless other cases. With the expanded use of IoT in transportation, automated infrastructure, and other autonomous systems, the security of these networks and devic…

While entertainment has been one of the most popular uses of augmented reality (AR), the City of Philadelphia wondered if AR could also help make public transportation more accessible and welcoming to people with disabilities. Through funding from Facebook Reality Labs and US Ignite, Philadelphia and SEPTA (the city’s mass transit system) challenged developers and creatives to innovate solutions…

RIoT earned a grant from US Ignite and Facebook to host an AR Developer Challenge to find and support AR solutions for accessibility and inclusion, economic impact, and workforce development in the Raleigh-Cary region. These are the top moments of their final pitch event held in late July 2021. 

Here are a few examples of how our Project OVERCOME communities are proactively engaging their residents ahead of deploying their tech solutions for connecting the unconnected.

In June, Blue River hosted the McKenzie International event, a track meet for athletes competing to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. To enable the livestream pay-per-view of the event, project OVERCOME partners utilized CBRS to bring Internet connectivity to McKenzie Track for the very first time.

Shift created training programs that allow healthcare professionals to practice with new sanitization standards and patient interaction protocol in a two- and three-dimensional training environment.

We are launching “Smart Community Sparks” – a blog series to summarize what smart city projects the US Ignite communities are investing in and how they are addressing challenges.

In the upcoming Long Beach AR Exhibition, participants can immerse themselves in an augmented version of Long Beach’s downtown neighborhood while learning about the city’s historic past, diverse present and potential future. 

US Ignite is excited to announce the Electric Mobility Symposium will be held Thursday, June 24 at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego.

Time and again, privacy experts have raised concerns about “smart city” being a euphemism for surveillance state, which is part of the reason roughly one third of smart city projects fail, and almost 80% of prototypes don’t reach their desired scope. Too often, these project failures occur when municipal leaders don’t take the time to engage with communities, or don’t fully commit to thinking through policy issues that are essential for fostering civic trust. 

In US Ignite's Augmented Reality Developer Challenge, RIoT in NC has selected six teams to move forward with development of their smart city AR applications.

Four teams developing smart base technologies demonstrated their working prototypes from last fall's 5G Pitch Day to Miramar leaders in early March, 2021. While many 5G applications seem far off into the future, the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego is already looking into how the technology can improve military operations at the base. The 5G Living Lab at Miramar is a $4 million i…