TownTech Inc - Urban Planning And Design

Solutions

Towntech partners with our clients to select the most appropriate, best-in-class technology solutions for communities, towns, and cities. Towntech’s expertise spans a wide range of today’s urban technologies capable of protecting citizens, improving the urban experience, and increasing municipal revenue generation. We understand what infrastructure, hardware, software and applications are required for cities to get the most out of their technology investment. If you are ready to explore technology options for your community or are preparing for a new technology deployment, call on Towntech to assist you in requirements formulation, solution selection, pricing, and implementation. Our planners and technologists are ready to meet your organization’s requirements, scale, and budget for urban technology solutions and systems.

Solution Architecture

At the point that our clients are ready to start implementing technology, Towntech’s solution architects and engineers are there to provide detailed design documentation. Our solution architects and engineers will create design documentation, in concert with our clients and partners that will function for future phases of technology implementation and turn-up. These design documents will go through rigorous review, quality assurance and quality control prior to the start of any construction or deployment.

Urban and Campus Surveillance Solutions

Towntech understands that with the solutions that video surveillance networks offer, privacy issues and individual rights become a real concern. However, urban surveillance has proven to have significant benefits to community protection and policing. Urban video surveillance is one of the biggest themes in urban technology for community protection and cost savings. Using IP technology, mesh architecture, high definition solutions, or other emerging surveillance technologies, Towntech is ready to work with our clients to seamlessly integrate the most appropriate and non-invasive solutions.

Urban Probes and Sensors

Cities are becoming smarter. Sensors are being employed to monitor everything from atmospheric data to terrorist threats including nuclear and biological. A sensor network is a group of specialized transducers with a communications infrastructure intended to monitor and record conditions at diverse locations.
Towntech thoroughly understands this technology and works with communities to design sensor architecture, select appropriate technologies, and deploy a sensor network into the built environment.

Urban Broadband and Wimax

Mobile computing is fast becoming a part of society, and like streetlights and traffic signals is fast becoming a common utility expected in every community. Broadband technologies such as WiMAX, WiFi, cable, and satellite are services that give one community an economic advantage over others. WiMAX is emerging into a technology of choice for cities. WiMAX, is a standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to wired broadband like cable and DSL. Towntech’s broadband experts are eager and ready to assist community and city decision makers in determining the best model for delivering broadband to residents, business, and visitors.

Urban Parking Technologies

Parking is one of the biggest issues communities and cities must manage. Adequate parking can determine a city’s economy, image, and user friendliness. It must be balanced with available land and the mix of uses. Revenue generation is also an important consideration to parking planners. Parking technologies have stagnated over the past few decades, and are now quickly accelerating. Towntech’s resource team, along with its technology partners, is on the forefront of parking technologies and has the expertise to assist developers, city planners, and urban designers with the appropriate mix of parking technologies suitable for diverse communities.

Urban RFID

Urban Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an intelligent shared monitoring platform being developed for communities and essential service providers. It monitors utilities, events, services and essential community infrastructure assets. RFID is a technology that incorporates the use of electromagnetic or electrostatic coupling in the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to uniquely identify an object, animal, or person. Today a significant thrust is placed on RFID use in industry as an alternative to the bar code. The advantage of RFID is that it does not require direct contact or line-of-sight scanning.
Some cities are using RFID for parking enforcement by embedding small RFID chips into all newly issued parking permits, giving parking enforcement officers the ability to distinguish, in an instant, between residents and non-residents and identify counterfeit permits. RFID is an exploding technology. We at Towntech have the knowledge, expertise and resource management teams to help communities navigate this exciting new technology.
Emerging Urban Technologies

Towntech will always have one foot firmly planted in the present and the other stepping into the future. Our team is constantly working with leading edge technology researchers, universities, and vendors to keep our clients abreast of any new technologies that can enhance, protect, or improve the citizen experience in communities, towns, and cities.