There are enormous growth opportunities for companies able to help cities break down barriers and establish best practices for the use of IoT technologies.
IEEE, the RAIN RFID Alliance and RFID Journal will host a Smart Cities Mega-Challenge as part of the IEEE RFID 2017 event, to be co-located at next year's RFID Journal LIVE! conference in Phoenix, Ariz.
The Midwestern city beat out Austin, San Francisco, Portland and three other tech-savvy cities, winning $50 million to fund connected-technology improvements to its transportation infrastructure.
The company is deploying its low-power wide-area network through the use of what it calls macrocells and microcells, aiming to support IoT applications ranging from the agriculture industry to the oil and gas industry and smart-city projects.