Powered by global-leading networks and digital innovation, TELUS delivers new Smart City solutions to enhance safety, efficiency, and sustainability for Canadian communities - Seite 2

In addition to the 65 communities already deploying Smart City technology across Canada, TELUS continues to test and innovate with several active pilot projects that are expanding the capabilities of our technology in both major metropolitan areas and less densely populated rural communities. These projects fall within four foundational pillars:

Intelligent Transportation

• Sensors, cameras, and other devices that are built into or near roads, sidewalks, and bike paths, that provide data for innovative software to improve traffic flow in real-time. This data also helps to better inform decisions around infrastructure and city planning, fleet optimization, and economic drivers like tourism hot spots.
  

Operational & Environmental Sustainability

• Increasing a municipality's operational efficiencies not only saves time, money, and human resources, but helps to contribute to municipalities’ sustainability goals. These Smart City solutions include connected lighting, energy management, environmental sensors, and asset tracking.
  

Public Safety and Security

• Smart City solutions that contribute to public safety and security include advanced video systems that provide not only on-premise security, but video and data analytics. Crucially, these systems aid in emergency response and event management scenarios, allowing for faster response times and better public safety outcomes.
  

Public Health

• In a time when public health is at the forefront of both residents and municipalities minds, connected devices can aid in decision-making through virtual care solutions, reducing the burden on our health system. For example, thermal imaging technology that can help provide alerts of potential health concerns to reduce the spread of an infection. Smart City technologies help to keep communities healthy.
  

In addition to the development and deployment of our own technologies, TELUS is partnering with proven leaders in the Smart City space. Leaders like Miovision, a globally-recognized, Canadian company using computer vision, artificial intelligence and advanced modelling to help cities modernize their approach to traffic management. Leveraging the dedicated TELUS IoT network, purpose-built for IoT connected devices, Miovision-equipped traffic signals allow cities to remotely access, analize, and action data generated at intersections, easing traffic congestion, reducing carbon emissions and making intersections safer for vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians.