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Executive Summary

Under the umbrella of the Connected City Advisory Board (CCAB) and the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the
Connected City Blueprint is intended to work as a guideline to support cities and government authorities to develop
their connected city plans, and for the broader wireless industry, including citizens, entrepreneurs, operators,
regulators, equipment manufacturers and service developers to better understand the challenges and opportunities
of the Connected City and Smart City ecosystem.
Overall connectivity is important to a city on many layers:
Citizens: Providing greater convenience and better quality of life;

Businesses: Create new economic opportunities for companies in all sectors including tech, media, healthcare,
logistics and more;
Government: Efficiently manage and run the city by anticipating needs and providing improved services to its people.

This initial Connected City Blueprint report is a starting point to aggregate and identify Cities and Local Authorities
views and perspectives on how to structure connectivity plans, their benefits and the value propositions around a
horizon that various stakeholders can understand.
The structure of the Report is divided into three major parts:

Part I (Chapters 2 – 5): Identifying the importance of the Smart City Vision and the role of connectivity. What cities
need to be thinking about to begin the process of developing a smarter and more connected City Ecosystem.
Part II (Chapters 6 – 8): The necessary technologies to help cities develop their Connected City Plan and identifying
a set of case studies in terms of verticals implemented in cities around the world, acting as a benchmark for future
deployments.
Part III (Chapters 9 - 11): Examining the opportunities and services that can be explored by cities, including Big Data,
Roaming and Public-Private Partnerships.
Throughout the report, references are made to examples of deployments and processes implemented in different
cities. This aims to bring realistic and real-world examples to the discussion in order to facilitate the understanding of
the opportunities and challenges for the cities in the various aspects addressed in this report.
Overall, Smart Cities represent an evolutionary step in urban development, which is based on the combination of
technologies and human resources with a common goal of achieving economic growth, sustainable development and
optimal quality of life for the citizens. Connectivity in general plays a central role in the Smart City development,
since they provide the means for interconnecting infrastructures (i.e. networks, sensors, devices) and collaboration
between the different stakeholders, including the Citizens, City Authorities, Private Sector Companies, Innovators and
Entrepreneurs and the Academia, the key for success.
The CCAB and the WBA will continue the development of this Connected City Blueprint, both in terms of additional
content as well as making it available to the industry in different channels, including an online eBook version. This is
an Industry-collaborative effort and the CCAB would like to invite the different stakeholders to get involved in this
initiative. The Connected City Blueprint can be considered a living document and updated versions will be released
throughout 2017 and beyond.

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