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Portland, Oregon considers Civiq 'smart city' solution

February 2, 2017

Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Dan Saltzman announced that the city of Portland, Oregon is exploring the Civiq "smart city" solution, according to a Civiq press release. The announcement was made at the NIST Global City Teams Challenge Super Action Cluster Summit on Transportation.

City officials are working with Civiq to deploy Civiq waypoints in and around Portland to bring interactive wayfinding, multi-modal transit information, free Wi-Fi and other services to citizens and visitors.

Besides offering interactive wayfinding, transportation information and free high-speed Wi-Fi service, the network of outdoor communications structures will also be capable of displaying emergency alerts and service outages, and will encourage citizen engagement with city officials through access to a City311 application.

Two dual high-brightness outdoor displays will be used for advertising, which will subsidize the cost of the network to the city with the goal of making it completely financially self-sufficient.