NIST’s Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things (IoT) program supports the development and application of standards, guidelines, and related tools to improve the cybersecurity of connected devices and the environments in which they are deployed. By collaborating with stakeholders across government, industry, international bodies, and academia, the program aims to cultivate trust and promote U.S. leadership in IoT.

North Carolina’s Triangle Region is home to more than 2 million people, the Research Triangle Park, three major universities and the cities of Raleigh, Cary, Durham and Chapel Hill. It is one of the fastest growing areas in the United States and a global leader in the deployment of Smart City technology. This workshop will explore how this region is moving “Smart Cities” from a buzz word to a transformative implementation that solves modern problems and provides economic growth.

As cities around the globe grow, change, and revitalize themselves, the need to adapt to constant change while delivering efficient cost effective management is becoming more and more crucial. New business models, new markets, new threats to physical and IT infrastructure will require proactive and preemptive decision making. Natural emergencies and disasters will require modeling for preparedness and the ability to react quickly when disasters do occur. All of This will be essential to create and maintain a healthy economic engine for growth and sustainability. We will explore how the age of “The Internet of Things” combined with cognitive computing can deliver intelligent operational tools which will allow our city officials to deliver high value services to their citizens and business across the domains of: safety, traffic, water, power, waste, maintenance and weather events. We will explore how these technological advancements can be applied to create new models to enable and grow their economic engines.

Are you deploying IoT as a science project or for a competitive cost or revenue advantage? Join George Mulhern, CEO of Cradlepoint, as he shares strategic networking considerations to help organizations spend more time “consuming” technology and less time building it – greatly improving their time-to-value. Software-Defined technologies, elastic gateways, and 5G are among those strategic choices that could be the difference between a competitive advantage and a resource drain.

Social networks, like Facebook, Wayz and Yelp are defacto word of mouth engines that people use to guide and avoid issues. How can a city build solutions that take advantage of citizen connectivity to alert, alarm and appreciate the concerns and communications needed in a city? Is “there an App for that” or do we need to augment apps with other things?

Smart public infrastructure includes the ability to deliver essential services like clean water, dependable power, safe gas, and efficient public lighting. Smarter management of them is the foundation for smart cities. What sensor strategies and frameworks should be put in place for cities to support their citizens and avoid the missteps recently in the news?

The news is filled with discussions and proposals about smart city deployments, but what are the development strategies that make the implementation real and valuable to the municipalities? This session provides a framework for cities that are looking to make Smart City systems a permanent part of their infrastructure.

We have had a lot of investment in trials from both the public and private sector in Smart City solutions. We have asked implementers of these solutions to participate and share their experience and frustrations with becoming a Smart City.

The convergence of 5G wireless capabilities and ubiquitous deployment of IoT devices, harmonization of connectivity and interoperability is needed to enhance innovation. In close collaboration with industry and academic partners, IEEE has launched an initiative to facilitate the Harmonization of Connectivity of the Digital Citizen. This panel presents an overview of the Digital Citizen’s connectedness from personal area networks and sensors to metropolitan scale connectedness within a Smart, Immersive City environment.

As the Internet of Things moves from hype to adoption and productivity, it’s time to figure out what is IoT actually good for. Connecting equipment and devices over the Internet enables us to collect a lot of useful data. But what for? Gaining visibility and actionable insight sounds interesting but the real benefit comes from being able to act upon that insight. This presentation will discuss how IoT applications deliver tangible value to the equipment manufacturers and operators alike.

The Next Generation of emergency services is not a 911 call but the ability for people to report crisis and for dispatchers to see the entire situation. Where do we stand on getting the network deployed and how is it changing the ways cities react to situations of turmoil.

Leverage the millions of records of data being generated annually from your building to materially increase building efficiency without capital improvements. Lessons from more than 3000 buildings across 24 countries will be shared.