Getting to a smart city platform that provides a seamless, integrated experience for citizens requires digital ecosystems where multiple players can participate, collaborate and exchange data through low-latency private interconnection.

Data exchange is essential for smart cities to succeed in their promise to deliver safer, healthier and more sustainable communities. Data trusts can address data privacy concerns but need to ensure that data is exchanged securely and reliably between participants.

A smart city digital platform based on  Interconnection Oriented Architecture™ (IOA™) best practices can enable diverse stakeholders to collaborate and securely exchange data in real-time. Private interconnection avoids the public internet, keeping data safe in transit on low-latency, high-bandwidth infrastructure. And as data volumes at the edge grow, an IOA strategy places scalable, on-demand cloud-based compute power and storage resources at the edge to process sensor data in real-time while aggregating the data needed to improve core AI algorithms in the cloud.