M2M Network infrastructure workshop for Smart Cities

Smart City perspectives are plentiful
Sustainable urban development is recognised as a key challenge at a global level. The ‘Smart Cities’ model provides opportunities and challenges for cooperation on issues related to areas of energy, water, health, transport, environment, information and communication technologies.
When billions of devices will be deployed in the Smart City, data must be gathered and managed in an efficient way. Only a standard communication platform can enable the “many billions” of smart objects in a future smart city scenario. M2M (Machine to Machine) communication will be a core technology for the proper functioning of future smart cities.

About the Workshop
This workshop will focus on how the telecommunication industry can embrace the opportunities from M2M networks, matching the growing needs for smart city solutions in terms of connectivity and platforms for cost effective development of applications.
It will also focus on how the telecom operators can optimise their network solutions for massive smart city application deployment and how third party application developers can utilise the network platforms and tools to efficiently and cost-effectively develop valued-added smart city applications. The journey will take you from the discussion of core technologies and network solutions to business development issues, ending up with views from the users: The cities – what are the real needs?

Target groups: Technology managers and practitioners from all parts of the telecommunication industry; Software architects, developers and planners of smart city and general IoT applications; End-to-end service and asset providers; Owners and planners of smart city applications, including managed service providers and cloud operators.

Registration: Send an email with name, position and affiliation to M2Mworkshop(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)almanac-project.eu. Participation is free of charge and cancellations can be made freely up to the day of the workshop. However, participants failing to cancel their registration will be charged a no-show fee of €50.