Matthew Schultz: Architecting Your Network Like A Smart City

What you need to know:

• The goal is to enable different entities, systems and devices to seamlessly access, interoperate and utilise data
• Design in a way that allows forward connectivity
• 60% of homes in the City of Ipswich have fibre access
• Use existing infrastructure to become connectivity mechanisms

Matt Schultz leads the City of Ipswich’s digital city program and joined Connected Cloud & DC Edge to discuss the underlying frameworks that are driving connectivity between the cities smart initiatives.

To Schultz, the goal is to enable different entities, systems and devices to seamlessly access, interoperate and utilise data.

He said,

If you want open interoperability, you need to carefully build the ingestion, the data storage, the ability to serve up into applications, virtuality and the ability for API integration both in and out.”

Technology leaders must accept that it’s uncertain if they want to plug in…