«Here a digital newsstand powered by solar panels and equipped with a rack with power outlets for electric bicycles, in which to freely enter to charge mobile phones or pay various utilities. A little further on, smart towers of various types and sizes able to contain antennas and 5G technologies for mobile communication, but also to support large screens on which to slide advertising and service information or to accommodate an automatic defibrillator for public use. And again, city lighting poles with sensors and cameras that record information – from the trend of free parking spaces to the number of people passing through a street, and at what distance between them; from the level of traffic to the level of pollution – and return them in the form of data and statistics useful to the community, in order to manage critical issues and improve everyone’s lives. To see first-hand how the city of the future will work, you have to enter Calzavara Labs, the Basiliano laboratory where smart city technologies are designed and developed».
Smart towers for smart cities: this is the vast technological universe that is discovered by entering the new Calzavara Labs in Basiliano, where systems are designed and developed for the cities of the future.
The new generation smart towers are the pillars of the new safe, eco-sustainable and interconnected city, thanks to the integration of new features, ranging from pollution monitoring to video surveillance, from traffic and flow management, including for people, to street lighting, to the support of information and advertising screens.
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