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Citizens Broadband Radio Service

CBRS 

Citizen Broad Radio Service is 150 Mhz of spectrum that was formerly used for government usage that has been released for public use.  Like 5G, there is lower latency and higher speeds and is more secure than traditional wireless spectrum.  There is a licensed and unlicensed tier of this service.  The unlicensed tier provides an economical way to create private wireless networks like traditional WIFI networks. 

CBRS is also be considered by many to provide low-cost broadband internet connectivity in hard to reach areas. A few providers may even be able to provide building owners an additional revenue source by allowing them to install equipment on roofs for CBRS and other "small cell" wireless/mobility connection points.

Contact Cloud 9 Advisers to learn more about how you can provide better mobile connectivity and network options for your business and your immediate area. We are the only vendor-neutral mobility experts with the resources and portfolio of suppliers that can solve your problems fast.

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]]>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 10:11:36 -0500<![CDATA[5th Generation Wireless]]>https://www.cloud9advisers.com/News/post/5th-Generation-Wireless

5th Generation Wireless

5G 

The next generation of connectivity for mobility and wireless networks.  5G encompasses multiple wireless spectrums that can work at speeds up to 10Gbps.  There are essentially 3 bands of 5G spectrum:

  • Low-band spectrum can also be described as sub 1GHz spectrum. It's the primary band used by carriers in the U.S. for LTE, and bandwidth is nearly depleted. While low-band spectrum offers excellent coverage area and wall penetration, there is a big drawback: Peak data speeds will top out around 100Mbps. 

  • Mid-band spectrum provides faster speeds and lower latency than low-band. It does, however, fail to penetrate buildings as effectively as low-band spectrum. Expect peak speeds up to 1Gbps on mid-band spectrum. 

  • High-band spectrum is what delivers the highest performance for 5G, but with major weaknesses. It is often referred to as mmWave. High-band spectrum can offer peak speeds up to 10Gbps and has extremely low latency. The main drawback of high-band is that it has low coverage area, and building penetration is poor

To learn more and find our if 5G is in your area and if it's right for your business, contact Cloud 9. We are the only vendor-neutral 5G, IoT, wireless, and mobility experts in the industry with the resources and the portfolio of mobility suppliers to get your problems sovled fast. 

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]]>Sat, 03 Jul 2021 19:37:04 -0500<![CDATA[Mobile-Wireless: We're here to help]]>https://www.cloud9advisers.com/News/post/mobile-wireless-we-re-here-to-help

We are here to help you with Wireless, Mobile, and IoT

The next-generation wireless technologies are built to support more secure, faster, lower latency wireless networks from traditional cell phone networks to wireless data networks to Fixed Wireless providers.  These technologies will vastly change the face of networking.  Because many of these technologies do not require physical cables to connect, this enables rapid expansion of network connectivity without much of the costs of physically running wiring.


Below are just a few wireless/mobile-related services and technologies where Cloud 9 can help you find the right solutions and the best vendors, carriers, and service providers that deliver:


  • 5G
  • CBRS - Citizen Broadband Radio Service
  • Private LTE
  • WiFi 6
  • Small Cells
  • DAS - Distributed Antenna System
  • Backup/Secondary Connectivity
  • MDM - Mobile Device Management
  • Expense Management
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]]>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:54:03 -0500<![CDATA[Food Safety and IoT]]>https://www.cloud9advisers.com/News/post/food-safety-and-iot

REMOTE MONITORING SOLUTIONS FOR FOOD SERVICES

REMOTE MONITORING SOLUTIONS FOR FOOD SERVICES


Checking temperatures to protect your customers and achieve regulatory compliance has never been easier. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requirements can be challenging. Fast track FSMA compliance with help from our award-winning vendors/suppliers.


Effortlessly monitor temperature and automatically create FSMA/HACCP-compliant temperature logs


Facilitating ERES compliance, our sensors meet CFR21 part 11 requirements. Get real-time alerts for any threats—such as temps rising, doors left open, or abnormal motor activity. Know your inventory is safe from struggling equipment and human error with Wireless Sensors for remote food safety monitoring.


Easily set alerts for the thresholds you care about


Simple online configuration allows you to choose the conditions that trigger alerts and which team members should receive them. You can have peace of mind wherever you have cell service—receive alerts via text, email or call. Never be caught off guard by facility emergencies again.


Access a dashboard for each of your devices


Securely view readings from all your sensors online or via mobile app. You can even compare the readings for multiple facilities or multiple areas of the same facility. Basic monitoring and mobile apps are included (Android and iOS).


COntact us to learn more about the many ways our Mobility/IoT experts can help. We'll help you with a plan and introduce you to the best vendors from our portfolio to get the job done!

About Cloud 9

Cloud 9 Advisers helps business leaders and understaffed IT teams that need a strategic partner, not just another vendor. We help decision-makers buy great technology. We work with you to rationalize and reduce technology spending without sacrificing the technology itself and employ sound digital transformation principles and strategies.


We do not sell solutions, we help you buy the right solutions. We are not a vendor, we help you find the right vendors. We diagnose problems, prescribe solutions, and facilitate decisions.


We are impartial, unbiased, and vendor-neutral technology practitioners with expertise in four critical segments: Cybersecurity, Communications, Connectivity, and Cloud. Our proprietary software contains decades of data and analytics on all of the 250+ vendors in our Supplier Portfolio. We’ll help you quickly identify, research, evaluate, and compare appropriate solutions and vendors; eliminating months of labor trying to do it on your own. We’ll help you make confident decisions quickly. 


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Food Safety Tech
]]>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:03:08 -0500<![CDATA[Supplier Spotlight: MetTel]]>https://www.cloud9advisers.com/News/post/Phoenix-Aims-for-Zero-Waste

MetTel working with City of Phoenix to Achieve Zero Waste by 2050

by Max Silber, VP of Mobility, MetTel. Read the original article at MetTel.net

Cloud 9 Advisers Supplier Spotlight: MetTel Mobile

Like many cities across the United States, the city of Phoenix is looking for ways to deliver efficient, cost-effective and safe public services.


As the fifth largest city in the U.S., Phoenix is challenged with managing and conserving 270 million gallons of tap water and treating 135 million gallons of wastewater daily. Water is the lifeblood of the city, especially considering the dwindling water resources around the Colorado River in the U.S. West.  Ultimately, the city wants to reach a zero-waste goal by 2050. The only way to get there is through technology. IoT solutions can be the answer but maybe not in the most intuitive ways.


To understand the potential impact of IoT, we need to realize there are more connected devices in the world today than humans. These devices, commonly known as the Internet of Things (IoT), come in infinite forms, from smart building technologies, which monitor and manage energy usage, to connected vehicles, which help anticipate and avoid potential collisions. According to Gartner, by 2020 the number of IoT devices is projected to exceed 20 billion, fueled by continued technological advances and the plummeting costs of computing, storage and connectivity.


The growing investment in IoT technologies has the potential to generate new cost-savings and efficiencies while also driving significant improvements to quality of life. An analysis by the World Economic Forum, in partnership with IoT-Analytics GmbH, found that an estimated 84% of IoT deployments are currently addressing, or have the potential to advance, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. IoT clearly has societal benefits that could be maximized without compromising commercial or economic viability.


Because of this, its rate of expansion, adaptability, ingenuity and scope is startling. Companies are developing more and more ways for us to connect. Within the next five years, sensors will likely have permeated every aspect of our lives, from our refrigerators to our shoes. The world’s IT infrastructure will be supporting a trillion devices, big and small.


For cities like Phoenix, the possibilities are endless when embracing IoT technology. Among the IoT technology recently deployed in Phoenix enabled by MetTel’s IoT Fleet Management technology:


More efficient, cost-effective and safer delivery of water resources to residents and facilities.


Greater visibility into the city’s mobile workforce: Automated vehicle location services including advanced location-based services, dispatch automation, vehicle diagnostics and driver safety data.


Information on fuel usage, proof of service or delivery.


Coupled with a powerful communications management platform, city managers can get a dashboard view of these IoT-connected fleets and other communication assets to track costs, inventory, maintenance, performance and more to help digitally transform key municipal functions and helping it realize today the progress necessary to reach its admirable goal as a fully sustainable smart city within the next generation. Think IoT can’t change the world? I’ll take that challenge, one city at a time.


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Cloud 9 works closely with MetTel and the more than 200 other providers in our Supplier Portfolio. Contact us to find out who is the best Mobile/Wireless carrier for your needs, what IoT solutions and innovations will work for you, and how to lower your current mobile carrier costs.

Every company wants to be your partner, but let’s face it, if they are selling you something, they’re not your partner, they’re just another vendor. Cloud 9 is different. We don’t actually sell anything and we don't charge our clients. We become a complementary extension of your team and help manage the often overwhelming process of finding, evaluating, and selecting the right technologies and competitive providers. Cloud 9, together with our distributors, is made up of more than two-hundred and fifty staff, all devoted to helping you save time and money. Our curated Supplier Portfolio contains nearly two-hundred of the best service provider companies. We are one of the largest buyers of technology in the country. Through us, you’ll get the collective buying power of thousands of other clients. Consider us your informed buyers, strategic partners, and technology advisers. We are impartial, unbiased, and vendor-agnostic. We sit on your side of the table to help you find, evaluate, and negotiate with service provider companies. We’ll help you design the right solution and identify the best technologies. We’ll get pricing from multiple competing companies, then guide you through the evaluation and procurement process. Use our evaluation tools for documentation and due diligence. Plus, have our entire team at your disposal before, during, and after the acquisition of your new services, for as long as you’re in business.


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]]>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:36:01 -0500<![CDATA[IoT, Smart City Backbone]]>https://www.cloud9advisers.com/News/post/IoT-is-Smart-City-Backbone

Cleveland's streetlight upgrade builds smart city backbone

by  in Innovation on September 23, 2019. See the full article at TechRepublic

The streets of Cleveland, Ohio are going to be a whole lot smarter when city leaders flip the switch on Smart, Safe CLE. Cleveland and ST Engineering Telematics Wireless are working on a plan to convert the city's 61,000 street lights into a smart network.


The project has the potential to reduce annual streetlight operating costs by as much as 20%. The standard street light bulbs will be replaced by LEDs which could cut the city's annual electric bill by another 50%. 

In Los Angeles, the city began swapping out all of its old sodium-vapor streetlights with LEDs and by 2016, with 80% of the lights replaced, the city was saving nearly $9 million annually on energy costs. This easily covered the initial installation cost of $57 million for the streetlights for a no-brainer ROI, as previously reported in TechRepublic.

In addition to saving money, this new network will provide a generic backbone that can be used for other smart city projects. The project will take about 18 months and cost $35 million. The communications infrastructure was installed in three days and is already complete. The Cleveland Power Company has an online map that tracks the LED conversion progress.

Telematics installed a T-Light Galaxy Network which provides web-based control of the light fixtures and the network. This wide-area network uses a single base station to covers an area of up to 20 km radius and monitors up to 50,000 lights.

The new system includes:

  • Remote control of individual lights and groups of lights

  • Pre-programmed schedules for routine and real-time management for special events

  • Full over-the-air firmware upgrade capability.

  • Maintenance alerts in real-time 

The company's BrightCity software controls each streetlight's operation and allows lights to be set at different intensities for residential, commercial and industrial locations. In addition to converting the streetlights, Telematics will install 1,000 cameras to be operated by the Cleveland Police Department in locations identified by the police as crime "hot spots," as well as within 1,000 feet of recreation centers and parks.

Telematics also will install three gateways to cover the entire city's network of streetlights, and a fourth gateway is planned for city-wide redundant coverage. Telematics Wireless is a fully owned subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Electronics.

Barriers to LED street lights

Saving money by switching to LED lights seems like a no-brainer but there's always enough politics in a city project to get in the way of a good idea. Modernizing street lights is difficult to do because utility companies own 60% of the street lighting in the country. Helping cities lower their utility bills is a direct hit to the power company's bottom line. 

The City of Albany, New York had to buy its 10,313 street lights from a utility for $9.4 million to make the LED conversion. 

The Better Buildings Initiative created an "Outdoor Lighting Accelerator Toolkit" with information on how to address technical, financial and regulatory barriers to transitioning to smart street lights.

There are more publicly owned power companies in America than privately owned, but the investor-owned utilities are bigger. The city owns Cleveland Public Power, which is a Division of the Department of Public Utilities. The city-owned power company started delivering power to city residents in 1906 and survived a takeover attempt in 1979 by a investor-owned electric utility. Today the power company is the biggest publicly-owned power company in Ohio.

Cleveland universities lead IOT Collaborative

The streetlight project is part of the Smart City Cleveland plan. The city released its strategic plan in 2016 with five strategic focus areas: traffic, transit, sensing, grids, and communication. The project's goal is to use technology to improve public safety, increase access to education and services by improving mobility, all while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Case Western Reserve University launched the Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems (ISSACS) to study the Industrial Internet of Things.

The smart cities work got a boost in 2017 when Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University founded the IoT Collaborative. The collaborative is working with industrial, governmental, educational, neighborhood and non-profit groups to test IoT devices and projects related to smart city, health care, energy, and other areas.


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Every company wants to be your partner, but let’s face it, if they are selling you something, they’re not your partner, they’re just another vendor. Cloud 9 is different. We don’t actually sell anything and we don't charge our clients. We become an extension of your team and help manage the often overwhelming process of finding, evaluating, and selecting the right technologies and competitive providers. Cloud 9, together with our distributors, is made up of more than 250 staff, all devoted to helping you save time and money. Our curated Supplier Portfolio contains nearly 200 of the best service provider companies. We are one of the largest buyers of technology in the country. Through us, you’ll get the collective buying power of thousands of other clients. Consider us your informed buyers, strategic partners, and technology advisers. We are impartial, unbiased, and supplier-neutral. We sit on your side of the table to help you find, evaluate, and negotiate with service provider companies. We’ll help you design the right solution and identify the best technologies. We’ll get pricing from multiple competing companies, then guide you through the evaluation and procurement process. Use our evaluation tools for documentation and due diligence. Plus, have our entire team at your disposal before, during, and after the acquisition of your new services, for as long as you’re in business.


Technology Partners. Strategic Advisers.
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