City of Carmel Powers Smart City Infrastructure and Free Public Wi-Fi Using HPE Aruba Networking

Frequently topping ‘best places to live’ indexes, the City of Carmel, Indiana, is continuing its focus on promoting quality of life by modernizing its wired and wireless networking infrastructure with a Wi-Fi 6E-enabled HPE Aruba Networking solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE).

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The City of Carmel, Indiana is committed to building out its smart city infrastructure, ranging from free public Wi-Fi across 60 venues to public safety systems. Their end-to-end wired and wireless deployment from HPE Aruba Networking improves public and staff mobility in support of the city’s thriving arts scene, numerous seasonal festivals, and other public amenities that contribute to livability. (Source: City of Carmel, Indiana)

The end-to-end wired and wireless deployment improves public and staff mobility in support of the city’s thriving arts scene, numerous seasonal festivals, and other public amenities that contribute to livability and has attracted more than 130 corporate headquarters to the area. In addition, the AI-powered intelligence within the solution is generating municipal operations savings of up to 50 percent.

“With mobility essential to modern life experiences, our municipality is dedicated to supplying exceptional connectivity for staff and community across indoor and outdoor spaces,” said Morgan Rinehart, Network Administrator for the City of Carmel, Indiana. “Whether its public Wi-Fi, enterprise mobility, IoT-enabled solutions, or other connected technologies, having the fast, secure, and reliable unified access delivered by HPE Aruba Networking is key to fulfilling our role.”

Smart city supports outdoor activities year-round

The City of Carmel is also committed to building out its smart city infrastructure, ranging from free public Wi-Fi across 60 venues to public safety systems. These efforts are critical to ongoing public service innovations, such as hosting year around indoor and outdoor activities that encourage resident and visitor wellbeing.

This includes a massive outdoor skating rink in its city center that is a popular winter destination and compliments shopping, dining, arts, and other surrounding entertainment options. The city also provides free public parking garages 24/7, which contributes to its goals for limiting sprawl by encouraging core population density.