Geoverse Case Studies
One major rollout is for the city of Tucson; this is a commercial network for the city and its residents and in operation today. They have deployed a private municipal network with us to deliver broadband wireless access across 20 square miles of the city to connect households and neighborhoods that could not get reliable access. They knew extending existing fiber was too slow and costly, so they initially approached it with a WiFi mindset, but upon investigation, the number of APs, backhaul, and install staff required made it way too costly and slow to rollout, plus some services like voice would still not be properly addressed.
The driver is for school age kids to continue their learning activities during the pandemic, but the city is also rolling out other use cases for this network to serve the city. This includes using CBRS as a backhaul to extend WiFi access on school and public busses, and to other public spaces like city parks and pools. They have connected their traffic lights infrastructure and water monitoring systems to the muni-network too. Many of the city’s first responders will get access to the network and longer term, they are looking to offer city staff an alternative to using the legacy public carriers as a way to access the internet, i.e., they can become their own mobile service provider with the help of a partner like Geoverse. Tucson already has additional phases in planning to continue building out the service footprint to double its existing size.
A similar project is with Dade County and the city of Homestead, FL to bring wireless broadband access to residential towers that don’t have other means of connecting – again driven by school age kids looking to get connected to continue with their school work. This is a commercial deployment helping ~ 400 lower income families gain affordable access. Looking to get a press release out on this soon.
And there are several other connected city projects under deployment with similar use cases connecting households and city infrastructure across the US that we are working on – CA, MS, PA.