# Smart Cities: Part 1

- Show: [EE Times Current](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current)
- Published: 2018-08-09
- Length: 21m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2018-08-09-smart-cities-part-1
- Listen: https://www.eetimes.com/on-air.asp?doc_id=1333558

## Summary

Daniel Cooley, Vice President and General Manager of IoT Products at Silicon Labs, discusses the role of semiconductors and wireless technologies in the evolution of smart cities. He highlights smart metering as a mature IoT application that drove innovation in low-power, long-life battery devices and reliable mesh networking. Cooley explains how mesh standards like Bluetooth Mesh and Wi-Fi Alliance Mesh are becoming mainstream for scaling city infrastructure, while emphasizing the critical need for hardware-level security and the trend of moving compute and data processing to the edge to reduce bandwidth and improve privacy.

## Chapters

- [0:09](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2018-08-09-smart-cities-part-1#t=9) Introduction and Smart Metering History
- [4:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2018-08-09-smart-cities-part-1#t=258) Mesh Networking and Standards Evolution
- [8:02](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2018-08-09-smart-cities-part-1#t=482) Security in Mesh Networks
- [11:08](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2018-08-09-smart-cities-part-1#t=668) Real-World Energy Management Example
- [13:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2018-08-09-smart-cities-part-1#t=780) Semiconductor and Cloud Ecosystem Collaboration
- [18:23](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2018-08-09-smart-cities-part-1#t=1103) Edge Computing and Distributed Data

## Topics

- [Wireless & RF](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/wireless-and-rf)
- [Security & privacy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/security-and-privacy)
- [Connected products & IoT](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/connected-products-and-iot)
- [Chips, FPGAs & semiconductors](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/chips-and-fpgas)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)

## Most relevant to

large enterprises

## Mentioned

- Silicon Labs (company)
- Bluetooth Sig (company)
- Wi-Fi Alliance (company)
- Austin Energy (company)
- Microsoft Sphere (product)
- Azure (product)
- Amazon Greengrass (product)
- FreeRTOS (product)
- AWS (product)
- Alibaba (company)
- Baidu (company)

## Related episodes from other shows

- [Building Resilient Smart Cities | Wi-SUN Alliance's Phil Beecher | Internet of Things Podcast](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2023-12-05-building-resilient-smart-cities-wi-sun-alliances-phil-beecher-internet-of-things) (IoT For All Podcast)
- [What Makes a City Better Suited for IoT Adoption? | Mrinal Wadhwa, CTO of Ockam | #AskIoT E007](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/iot-for-all-podcast/2019-02-11-what-makes-a-city-better-suited-for-iot-adoption-mrinal-wadhwa-cto-of-ockam-aski) (IoT For All Podcast)
- [At Silicon Labs, Wireless IoT is Only The First Step in Rethinking Product Design](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2024-04-09-at-silicon-labs-wireless-iot-is-only-the-first-step-in-rethinking-product-design) (Moore's Lobby)
- [Ep. 9 | Mesh Networking for IoT Smart Homes with ZigBee, Z-Wave, and Bluetooth](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2020-09-11-ep-9-mesh-networking-for-iot-smart-homes-with-zigbee-z-wave-and-bluetooth) (Moore's Lobby)
- [Ep. 7 | The Wi-SUN-Powered Future of IoT Smart Cities with Renesas and Landis+Gyr](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2020-08-07-ep-7-the-wi-sun-powered-future-of-iot-smart-cities-with-renesas-and-landis-gyr) (Moore's Lobby)

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