Smart Cities

Transforming City Infrastructure With No Up-Front Costs

MOVING TOWARDS A SMART FUTURE

As cities seek to achieve sustainable and efficient progress, they are increasingly exploring the concept of Smart Cities. When implemented, it promises to help cities be more resilient, meet growth expectations, and attract investment and new businesses. These benefits can be achieved by leveraging Big Data and analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, mobile solutions, and more. OST’s Smart solutions will help cities deliver higher-quality services more efficiently while realizing major cost savings and revenue generation. Through OST, municipal authorities can leverage private financing; OST is also prepared to provide 100 percent of the remaining up-front costs for each project.

Our Approach Starts with an Integrated IoT Platform

OST’s Smart solutions begin with an integrated IoT platform and are customizable based on our customers’ needs. The platform is based on mature, best-of-breed technologies, which, when combined with OST’s process optimization, provides cities with three key benefits:

  • Environmental Sustainability: Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint
  • Operational Excellence: Gain visibility into overall operations
  • Safety and Security: Provide a secured environment for better public/personnel safety

OUR PROMISE: WE CONNECT PEOPLE, PROCESSES, DATA, AND THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) TO REALIZE THE SMART CITY VISION.

OUR WORK INCLUDES:

OST provides the following services to cities, as well as airports, military bases, and university and corporate campuses:

  • Energy management support
  • Upgrading outdoor/indoor lighting using adaptive LEDs resulting in reduced energy consumption
  • Detecting outages and maintenance issues in real time using the IoT platform
  • Connecting people, systems, and infrastructures
  • Geographically visualizing all devices and resources for situational analysis
  • Cross-domain data visualization and correlation
  • Secure network communication and access
  • Central device management
  • Providing business analytics for trending and continuous improvement
  • Enabling video analytics powered by artificial intelligence and complemented with machine learning
  • State of the art Emergency EOC, SOC
  • Enhanced asset management
  • Next generation security products such as portable X-ray scanners

HOW WE DO IT

OST helps cities to leverage private financing and integrated technical solutions to implement their initiatives without impacting their current budget or credit position, enabling them to develop long-term sustainable solutions. OST is also prepared to provide 100 percent of the remaining up-front costs for each project. We offer cities the possibility of:

  • Third-Party Financing
  • Leverage Federal Grants and Subsidies
  • Leverage OST’s relevant experience (Federal and international)

OST CAN HELP CITIES ACHIEVE POWER SAVINGS OF 50-80 PERCENT BY IMPLEMENTING LED LIGHTS USING SMART POLE TECHNOLOGY, WHICH WILL ALLOW EXISTING STREET LIGHT INFRASTRUCTURE TO ACT AS A DIGITAL HUB, OFFERING A FULL SUITE OF DIGITAL SERVICES TO THE CITY.