This podcast is brought to you by EITron. From Energy and Water Solutions to Advanced Analytics and Services,

EITron has the technology you need to make the most of your investments.

You can learn more about how ITRron is working to create more insightful utilities,

smarter cities, in a more resourceful world at www.itron.com. How do you bring a smart city to life?

Many would argue that the city is already alive,

a complex self-sustaining organism that operates like any other living being.

This concept is reflected in our artwork and our academic literature.

The city has a biological mimic, reorganizing and self-repairing, always trying to find a balance when certain limits are reached.

Over the last 50 years or so, a surprisingly heated academic and philosophical debate has emerged over how exactly we define the city as a biological

organism.

And now there's a whole new dimension to this debate.

How do you give a city a brain to think, act, and make decisions to improve the lives of citizens.

It's not just a philosophical question, it has real world implications for the health, sustainability,

and prosperity of our communities.

That's why companies like EITron are becoming so invested in the concept of the smart city.

Alongside municipalities and utilities, EITron is deploying the sensors and analytical tools to network systems

across the city, effectively creating a brain that grows and gets smarter over time.

Here's how Cheryl and Moore, the Vice President of global marketing at Eichron, describes the practical outcome.

It's really about how not only do we have a city of interconnected things, but it's what they are able to do when leveraged together to create new insights or

solve new problems in new ways.

These systems, electricity, water, and gas meters, street lights and parking meters, are just a few examples, can now be tied together to create new neural pathways.

They can interact, they can learn from each other, and ultimately this means a healthier organism.

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