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City Infrastructure That Reports Its Own Condition

Connect streets, meters, and public assets so municipal teams see what is happening across the city in real time — over licensed LoRaWAN® built for Oman.

◆ SMART METERING ◆ PUBLIC SAFETY ◆ TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
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// THE BLIND CITY

Cities Run on Reports That Arrive Too Late.

Most municipal decisions are made from data collected weeks ago by people walking routes. By the time a report reaches a desk, the street has already changed.

! Complaints before data The first sign of a failed streetlight or burst main is usually a resident calling, not a system reporting.
! Congestion managed by guesswork Signal timing is set from historical surveys, not from what is actually queuing at the junction right now.
! Utility losses across districts Without zone-level metering, water and energy losses are absorbed into the budget instead of located.
! Departments working in silos Lighting, water, waste, and traffic each keep their own records, so nobody sees the city as one system.
// CAPABILITIES

Three Systems, One Operating Picture

📊
CAPABILITY/01

City-Scale Smart Metering

Water, electricity, and municipal utility meters across every district report themselves — turning city-wide consumption into an auditable, billable record.

◆Automated reads across all districts
◆Zone-level consumption comparison
◆Loss and anomaly ranking by area
◆Automated municipal billing feeds
DISTRICT METERING GRID
18
DISTRICTS
100%
AUTO READS
0
FIELD VISITS
🛡
CAPABILITY/02

Public Safety & Environment

Environmental and situational sensors give safety teams a shared, always-current view of conditions across public spaces — before conditions become incidents.

◆Air quality and noise monitoring
◆Flood and water-level sensing at low points
◆Manhole, cabinet, and asset tamper alerts
◆Unified incident feed for response teams
PUBLIC SAFETY FEED
24/7
COVERAGE
multi
DEPARTMENTS
RBAC
ACCESS
🚦
CAPABILITY/03

Traffic Management

Count vehicles, measure queue length, and see how each junction actually behaves through the day — so signal plans reflect the street rather than a five-year-old survey.

◆Vehicle counting and classification
◆Queue length and wait-time measurement
◆Junction-level congestion ranking
◆Data exports for signal plan reviews
TRAFFIC FLOW · 18H
live
COUNTS
4
JUNCTIONS
−XX%
WAIT TIME
// INCIDENT LIFECYCLE

From Signal to Resolution, Automatically

Once assets are connected, this entire sequence runs without a phone call — the city learns about the issue before the public does.

📡 STEP 01 Detect Sensor readings cross a defined threshold.
🎯 STEP 02 Locate Event is tied to a zone, asset, and time.
🔔 STEP 03 Alert Right team notified by severity and shift.
🚐 STEP 04 Dispatch Crew sent with context, not guesswork.
✅ STEP 05 Verify Sensors confirm resolution and close out.
// MEASURABLE OUTCOMES

What Municipalities Gain

🚨 −0% Incident response time Crews dispatched from alerts, not phone calls.
🚦 −0% Junction wait time Signal plans tuned to measured demand.
💡 −0% Street lighting energy Adaptive schedules replace dusk-to-dawn burn.
🗺 0 Districts connected One network serving multiple departments.
📋 0% Automated reads No route walking, no estimated municipal bills.
PLACEHOLDER FIGURES — REPLACE WITH VERIFIED PROJECT RESULTS
// ARCHITECTURE

How a City Deployment Is Built

Four layers, delivered end to end by AR Technology — from the sensor on the pole to the report in the council chamber.

🛰 LAYER 01 Street Sensors Meters, air quality, flood, traffic, and asset nodes.
📡 LAYER 02 ARNet™ Gateways Licensed LoRaWAN® coverage across districts.
🖥 LAYER 03 ARIoT™ City View Unified dashboards, alerts, and department roles.
🏛 LAYER 04 Municipal Systems GIS, billing, and asset systems via API.
// HARDWARE

Sensors We Deploy Across Cities

🌬 Air Quality Node PM2.5, NO₂, CO, and noise on street furniture. MULTI-GAS
🚗 Traffic Counter Vehicle counts and classification per lane. RADAR / MAG
🌊 Flood Level Sensor Water level at underpasses and low points. ULTRASONIC
💡 Lighting Controller Per-pole switching, dimming, and fault reporting. NEMA SOCKET
🗑 Waste Bin Sensor Fill level for route optimisation. FILL-LEVEL
🔒 Cabinet Tamper Node Door, shock, and tilt alerts on street assets. IP66
// PROOF IN THE FIELD

Connected Municipal District

CHALLENGE A municipal district managed lighting, water, waste, and traffic from four separate paper-based workflows, learning about most faults from resident complaints days after they began.
SOLUTION Street-level sensors and utility meters connected over ARNet™ into a single ARIoT™ city view, with role-based dashboards per department and automated alert routing by severity.
RESULT Placeholder: XX% faster incident response, XX% reduction in lighting energy, and complaints replaced by pre-emptive maintenance. Figures to be replaced with verified project results.
// FAQ

Smart Cities FAQ

Rarely. Most city sensors are pole-, wall-, or cabinet-mounted and battery powered. Underground meter pits are reached by LoRaWAN's signal penetration rather than new cabling.
LoRaWAN's long range means a small number of well-placed gateways typically covers a whole district. We run a coverage survey during the design phase and size it precisely.
No. These deployments measure infrastructure — flow, pressure, air quality, traffic counts, asset state. They are not designed for personal identification, and access is role-controlled and audited.
Yes. One ARNet™ deployment can serve water, lighting, traffic, and facilities teams simultaneously, each with their own dashboard views and permissions.
AR Technology is TRA licensed and a LoRa Alliance member, so deployments align with Oman's regulatory framework and interoperate with standards-based equipment.

Give Your City a Live Operating Picture

Tell us which districts, assets, and services you manage today. Our engineers will map the sensors, coverage, and dashboards that fit — before you commit to anything.

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