Infrastructure, customer focus key to smart cities

LONGMONT — To build a smart city, it is not enough to have the latest technology collecting data throughout the city.

A smart city needs a strong foundation, and that means the infrastructure and systems in place to support whatever bells and whistles are the most recent in technology.

“You need to think about it in three layers,” said Marty Skolnick, account manager at Siemens

Industry Inc., while at Longmont Startup Week’s smart cities panel. “There’s the physical layer, which is utilities and telecom service. To enter into a project like this…