Who benefits
City Council
Key benefits:
- enhanced council service delivery, in turn providing improved customer service.
- improved efficiency of services like waste collections, licensing, traffic management and removal of fly tipping and posting.
Residents and visitors
Key benefits:
- easier access to information about local tourist sights and hotels.
- wider provision of community education programmes and integrated social services.
- a safer street environment with flexible and responsive CCTV coverage over a wider area that could help reduce the incidence and fear of crime.
Local businesses
Key benefits:
- being more in touch with employees through their WiFi-enabled devices when they’re in or out of the workplace. This includes the ability to send emails, surf the internet, access corporate networks and make voice calls over Wi-Fi from wherever they are in the Wi-Fi zone in the city centre.
- increased productivity and flexibility with workers making use of ‘dead’ time in between meetings.
