By Danny Krywyj
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While infrastructure rehabilitation is a daunting task for any city, the key is to identify cost-effective solutions that will prepare for the long term. One of the best ways to do that is to prevent an expensive crisis through the use of data-driven technology.
Data creates a depth of real-time knowledge about the health and livelihood for the systems that transport our most precious resource, clean drinking water.
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By making an initial investment upfront in data-savvy tools that monitor assess and analyse the current state of infrastructure, municipalities are equipped with the knowledge to determine a cost-effective plan of action.
The numbers in forecasting support the concept that data will be crucial to remediating aging infrastructure and smart cities. For example, there has been a major surge in technological devices connecting users and sharing data to multi-end users. From IoT sensors to open data collection and smart streetlights, all of these technologies provide better services and better communication.
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