Digital Transformation for a Safer and More Efficient World
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Solving smart cities’ challenges takes an ecosystem
Qualcomm has a unique business model driving digital transformation
AIoT is the future
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Qualcomm is the “Master System Orchestrator”
Smart cities pose complex challenges
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Presented By Sanjeet Pandit
The vision of smart cites has been talked about for many years. But realizing this vision requires addressing a host of complex challenges.
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Scope of smart city challenges is too big and costly to tackle alone
Due to the complexity, many companies in the industry decided not to focus on smart cities. But not Qualcomm. Qualcomm is attracted to solving hard problems and sees smart cities as a tremendous opportunity.
“We said, the harder the problem, the better it is for Qualcomm. We’re a systems company, and we do this well.”
- Sanjeet Pandit, Qualcomm
Lack of citizen and public staff engagement
Obtaining and sustaining stakeholder interest
Leveraging information and communications know-how
Lack of financing
Socioeconomic and political factors
Scope of refurbishing existing cities is large and costly
Fragmented smart city vision
Among the many challenges presented by smart cities are:
Practicality of support services
Interoperability
Large-scale deployment
CAPEX and OPEX
Data management and integration
Technology selection
There are also a host of technical challenges related to smart cities:
Nobody can do it alone; it takes a consortium, an ecosystem
Qualcomm’s philosophy is that solving the complex problems associated with smart cities can’t be done alone by one company. It takes a consortium and an ecosystem.
“There’s a lot to be done, and I’m sure, including us, nobody can do it alone. No one.”
In creating this ecosystem, Qualcomm leads and brings best-of-breed solutions to the table. Qualcomm has financing options, knows how to do data management integration, and uses APIs to integrate products. This approach has been extremely successful. And, it applies to far more than just “smart cities.” Qualcomm is also focused on large-scale deployments, which can include smart airports, ports, stadiums, campuses, and more. In fact, smart cities are only 30% of Qualcomm’s practice; the other 70% are smart connected spaces.
Sanjeet Pandit, Qualcomm
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The Smart Cities Accelerator Program focuses the ecosystem on opportunities
Based on the need for a consortium to digitally transform a particular space—with integrated platforms and scalable solutions—Qualcomm has launched a unique model: the Smart Cities Accelerator Program. This is a marketplace for companies with products and solutions to exhibit their offerings and participate in various opportunities. (Mr. Pandit compared it to Match.com.)
This program provides a way for ecosystem members to collaborate on new opportunities and start monetizing these opportunities.
Notifies members when opportunities arise
Features members on Qualcomm’s website
Has more than 400 members—including companies such as IBM and Google
Is free to join
This Accelerator Program:
AI + IoT creates an intelligent wireless edge
Devices are going to have so much data that it won’t be practical, feasible, or economical to move all of this data back to the cloud. Instead, it will be necessary to create an intelligent wireless edge. “Everything happens at the edge,” said Mr. Pandit. “You need AI on the edge.”
“AIoT is the future—it’s artificial intelligence with IoT. You’re going to see many devices out there which are connected. You will see many devices which have edge computing. AIoT is the way to go. That’s what’s going to take this industry forward.”
A term that Qualcomm is strongly advocating is “AIoT.” This means equipping internet of things (IoT) devices with artificial intelligence.
To support AIoT is the Qualcomm IoT Services Suite, which solves for IoT fragmentation with integrated, scalable, end-to-end solutions for plug-and-play deployment. Qualcomm’s IoT Services Suite is a consortium of best-of-breed products and services developed by Qualcomm in conjunction with partners. It includes AI, edge compute, and private networks as part of an end-to-end platform that provides IoT as a service. This suite enables over 30 smart verticals and segments that are ready for commercial deployment.
Bringing the ecosystem together to solve specific use cases
A term in the industry is a “master system integrator.” Qualcomm is one step above that, serving as a “master system orchestrator.”
“We bring the ecosystem together . . . in solving a particular use case.”
This orchestration requires a complete end-to-end portfolio to enable smart spaces. It requires intelligent operations and intelligent management, sensing devices, edge processing, data management, and applications that can solve particular use cases. These applications can be applied to cities, retail, factories, logistics, transit, airports, stadiums—any type of smart connected spaces.
Sanjeet Pandit
Sr. Director, Global Head of Smart Cities, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc
Mr. Sanjeet Pandit is the Global Head for Smart Cities practice at Qualcomm, Inc USA and responsible for Carrier and Ecosystem relationships in this domain.
Patrick Quirk
Vice President & General Manager, Vertiv
Patrick Quirk directs strategy for our global embedded firmware operations and now leads converged systems business. Prior to Vertiv, he served in leadership roles for telecommunications and semiconductor technology companies in the US and Europe.
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His expertise in the telecom industry spans over 20 plus years. He specializes in the areas of Smart City design, creation of Smart verticals, digital transformation and go to market strategies creating an experience that would benefit public private domains and citizen engagements. Mr. Pandit has successfully launched the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator program that brings all Smart Cities B2B providers under one roof and enables matchmaking in this domain. His efforts have enabled Smart Verticals and Smart Spaces/Industrial concepts globally that have resulted into quicker adoption into various industries and industrial verticals. He has developed and deployed various Smart City revenue models in association with ecosystem partners resulting into a win-win situation for all parties. Sanjeet has worked and created relationships with the Smart city ecosystem partners, resulting in multiple Smart City projects globally. He has held various senior positions at Qualcomm and was responsible for APAC and India business development prior to leading the Smart City vertical.
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Understanding the complex issues facing “Smart Cities” deployment and how Qualcomm’s transformational approach to the ecosystem of the connected space will simplify and help accelerate adoption. Qualcomm discusses the fragmented “Smart Cities” vision, the cost of refurbishing existing cities, socio-economic and political factors, financing, leveraging IT, monetizing solutions, and communications know-how, A “Smart City” is more than a city: Public Safety, Automobiles, Installation, Campus, Stadiums, Airports, Healthcare, and more. And why technology selection is so very important in deploying “AI on the Edge”, and why you can’t do it alone.
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