Goran Babusku: How to Select a Smart City Vendor

What I found is when the time comes, you know, to do the site visits, it's important to actually work with the partners that actually will be able to interpret the problem. into what they can actually sort of provide a solution for. So, for example, you need to actually have the partners, you know, that will actually come on site with you, you know, so you can actually tell them, you know, this is actually what I want, you know, to do at this site, you know, like a monitor traffic or site, you know, activations or drainage monitoring, you know, because the local physical situation, you know, could actually present, you know, some obstacles you know uh in terms of delivering different types of technology you know so it's not as easy as uh we're just going to order uh sensors you know from overseas you know and they're going to implement it you know it's it's best you know to sort of talk to someone who actually is experienced into rolling out you know their technology even though even if you actually pay like an extra few dollars extra but it's actually worth you know like to uh to sort of uh hit the head, you know, pretty much, you know, by bringing in people that you're confident that they can actually sort of deliver that solution. So pretty much, you know, don't trust, you know, too much into the shiny, you know, advertising brochures, but, you know, talk to people and try to understand, you know, and try to see, you know, whether they understand your problem and how they've actually solved that problem, you know, at some other places, you know, because You know, put it this way, you know, most of our councils actually share the, you know, we've got actually common problems, you know, so the, you know, the problem with, let's say, traffic, you know, or too much traffic in one council, you know, reflects into another council, you know, so that's an example, you know, so I don't know, air pollution, you know, it's the same. We don't have to actually sort of reinvent, you know, the. the wheel.