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[ ]one report has suggested that governments could harness smart technology to monitor vehicle and pedestrian traffic, to check whether we\'re observing social distancing rules and to trace our contacts 1 5G If data is the Smart City\'s \'currency of the realm,\' the transmission network is the backbone Access to bandwidth is critical to remote workers Since the declaration of COVID-19 as a national emergency, home internet use and wireless connectivity in the United States have largely withstood unprecedented demands 3 One study estimated that average data consumption per household in March increased approximately 11% over the previous monthly record 4 Another report estimated that 59% of American cities had shown signs of potential network strain for the week ending March 28, 2020 with 13 5% of cities seeing dips of 20% or more below their usual range in median download speeds 5 Resilience has depended in part on a series of temporary patches, reconfiguring networks to reflect the shift away from intensive internet use in commercial centers to a more distributed pattern of pressure on bandwidth as workforces disperse Schmidt suggests that specialists in big data analytics should turn to modeling distribution networks for lifecritical medical equipment to develop real-time tracking and data visualization platforms 6 There are also significant ongoing implications for insurance and liability stemming from the emergency reallocation of manufacturing capacity Cities (and real estate) with access to data, particularly available through 5G networks, will have a significant leg up in competing for businesses, manufacturing, supply chain logistics, and other, and workers in the post-COVID-19 world
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