Connectivity for Communities Power Breakfast St Mary’s, Ontario February 21, 2012 • a data transmission company Fibre Optics and Wireless Wi-Fi Serving Stratford, St Mary’s and region • wholly-owned by the City of Stratford digital technology centre broadband economy inclusive Intelligent Community What is a Fibre Optic Grid? Data root system • • 70km loop throughout Stratford and St Mary’s Ontario begun in 1998 for large business customers • 1 gigabit fast data transfer speeds • large volumes of data • connecting multiple locations • • • “Dark Fibre” connection only “Lit Fibre” active internet services goal: direct to business What is a Wireless Wi-Fi ? Wi-Fi = radio broadcast frequency • IEEE 802.11N, Motorola AP7181 • Wi-fi is standard on laptops, smartphones, MP3 players, PDAs… • stable, 300 Mbps fast, encrypted • Industry Canada safety standards • Ontario Energy Board ‘Smart Meter’ communications system: • hourly data, collected twice daily • 20,000 Festival Hydro meters • Overlapping design relays and taps fibre optic grid • Scalable, 40,000+ users • Carrier grade data and voice Smart City Platform World Leaders 70km Gigabit Fibre Optics & City-Wide Wi-Fi • IEEE 802.11N, Motorola AP7181 • Wi-fi for laptops, smartphones, MP3 players, tablets… • Ontario Energy Board ‘Smart Meter’ communications system: • Real time data collection • 20,000 Landis Gyr (Toshiba) Festival Hydro meters • Energy Conservation Platform • Smart Grid Fund Project • anyCOMM Smart LED Digital platform to strengthen our community Community: Citizens & Residential Visitors & Tourism Retail & Service Industry Education Public Services Health Manufacturing Commerce… Applications: Internet Access (ISP) Free Zone Wi-Fi Mobile Workforce Digital Signage Video Broadcast IP Voice Services Data Storage Digital Inclusion M2M Energy Controls… “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” Wayne Gretzky Intelligent Communities B R O A D B A N D KNOWLEDGE WORKFORCE INNOVATION DIGITAL INCLUSION A D V O C A C Y i-CANADA’s i-Community Model: Intelligent Community Open Architecture: i-COA® Live, Learn, Work, Play LIFE SOLUTIONS COLLABORATION ECOSYSTEM i-Health, i-Education, i-Government, i-Community, i-Business, i-Arts, i-Traffic Innovation, Open Information, Synergy Collaboration, Creativity, Social Networks Open Access Ultra Broadband, Roads Rail, Transit, Water, Energy, Waste Buildings, Parks, Rivers, Waterfronts INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT HUMAN RESOURCES MARKETING PLACE © 2011 All Rights Reserved: Hutchison Management International GLOBALIZATION TheLeadership Accelerators Ontario Vision May 2011