Virtualization helps the Smart City Solution

 

Carson City has achieved its goals through a complete set of innovative tools, capabilities and solutions.

“The virtual machines that we've implemented here in Carson City have allowed us to reduce the burden of administration and overhead costs while significantly increasing our reliability and disaster recovery processes." 

James Jacklett, Electrical/Signal Supervisor

The Smart City solution at Carson City uses virtual machines for increased reliability and disaster recovery. System Platform is installed on virtual machines under the VMWare vshpere system. The local control stations use hardened fanless box PCs as local Intouch HMI nodes. Communications are then over wireless infrastructure.

 

The plant control stations utilize thin clients for application control. A Wonderware Historian is used with SmartGlance for data analysis.

 

Here's a complete list of Wonderware products used at Carson City

1. Wonderware SmartGlance
2. System Platform
3. InTouch
4. Wonderware Historian
5. Wonderware Historian Clients
6. Wonderware InformationServer

More information

If you want to know more about how Wonderware helps in the creation of Smart City solutions, please also check out the following links:

1. Whitepaper on Leveraging virtualization for higher business continuity
2. Wonderware Smart City Software Solutions
3. The Wonderware Smart City video
4. The Wonderware Imagine a better future page
5. Lane Swansen's blog on Infrastructure and Smart Cities
6. The SmartCities Council