What Do Smart Cities, Businesses and Factories All Have in Common? They're All Comprised of Smart Spaces.

We need a better way of building smart societies from the ground up. Smart cities, smart transportation agencies, smart businesses and smart factories share a common trait – they are all comprised of smart spaces. Smart spaces can best be defined as urban, commercial, and industrial areas that use video, IoT, analytics and AI technologies to deliver intelligent insights to people, buildings and machines that help their organizations be more effective and improve their customer and constituents' experiences. Traditionally building something as ambitious as a smart city has been conceived as a massive undertaking to be done all at once, to get the world onboard with making our societies and cities smarter. But these are, in fact, enormous ecosystems made up of smaller, more manageable systems, like buildings, shops, factories, streets and urban infrastructure.