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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 20 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 8.2 Smart City / smart Village Figure 14 - Smart cities vertical (Source: Wireless Broadband Alliance / LoRa Alliance) Context Cities are under constant pressure to provide adequate services to their citizens and local businesses despite shrinking budgets and increasing populations. The creation of additional infrastructure to cope with the growing demand such as transportation, residential and business development is a costly and lengthy process and often lags well behind the real-world demands. An increasingly growing aging population (in some regions) puts immense strains on social care services. The disproportional increase in housing prices as compared to incomes drives more people into social housing. This has pushed many local authorities and cities to operate at their limit for public service delivery. The current method of public service delivery is not sustainable anymore as it severely affects the quality of life of residents or/and challenge their economic basis and underlying financially viability. Many cities have started to respond to these challenges by embracing digital innovations with the hope of increasing the efficiencies of public service delivery. This could be achieved by better predicting and managing peak demand on public services, cutting down costs of service delivery, minimizing environmental impact or improving operational efficiencies. Operationally, these initiatives are supported by smart city strategies and digital master plans. In practice a variety of smart city deployments have started to emerge mainly focused around IoT technologies to improve the delivery of public services in many areas ranging from smart parking and traffic management, multi-modal transportation, the management of social housing and residential care services, smart lightning or waste management services.