Bell and City of Orillia Smart City research partnership

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Bell and City of Orillia announce smart city partnership

Bell is proud to partner with the City of Orillia on an initiative to develop the city into a model smart city for the province and Canada. The partnership includes implementing digital kiosks to promote local businesses, a public Wi-Fi network, a fleet management solution to monitor city snowplow progress, and a solution to monitor the city’s sanitary sewer system.

The City of Orillia will also be implementing a smart city platform to aggregate data and provide a comprehensive view of the connected solutions.


How smart city solutions from Bell will help the City of Orillia

Fleet management

Optimize routes and manage vehicles more efficiently, and provide real-time updates to residents to monitor plowing progress online.

Water monitoring and groundwater inward seepage detection

Detect the volume of groundwater infiltration into the city’s sanitary sewer system, and reduce the unnecessary treatment of groundwater.

Digital kiosks

Provide local waypoints and directories of local businesses, and highlight community events to enhance visitor experience, increase citizen engagement and stimulate tourism within the city.

Learn more from your Bell representative today.

  1. Based on total square km of coverage on the shared LTE network available from Bell vs. Rogers’ LTE network. See bell.ca/LTE for details.