Delivering the information and tools municipal decision-makers need to optimize where and how technology is deployed within city boundaries.
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Helping cities improve their ability to plan and approve 5G/Smart/IOT deployments on public and private assets.
Our Mission: Simplifying the business of wireless broadband and technology planning and entitlement between cities and their technology partners.
Our Services
Pole Tops as Vertical Real Estate
The municipal Right-Of-Way (ROW) continues to be "Ground Zero" when it comes to planning and deploying 5G and Smart/IOT services.
Streetlights, utility and traffic signal poles (i.e. Vertical Assets) represent a significant population of the assets required by wireless carriers and 3rd party providers to locate and deploy equipment. With associated pole top leases involving term lengths of 10+ years, making informed decision early is crucial to long term success.
Asset Inventory Management System (AIMS)
Approving ROW-based services involves committing long term, high-value access to limited resources. Understanding current conditions and the long term impact on existing public asset inventories when considering new service deployments is crucial.
NxTgen's AIMS service platform is purpose-built; designed with the municipal user in mind. The service provides municipalities, of any size, with the ability to database, map, mine and visually present information about it's asset, technology services deployed and those under consideration.
AIMS provides municipal users with the ability to manage and leverage key right-of-way inventory data including streetlights, traffic signal poles, attachments, vaults, manholes; anything located in the right-of-way.
City Planners, Public Works, DOT resources, etc., can plan and manage the business of when, what and how new device and services make their way on to pole tops in the public right-of-way
City leadership can make real-time site and/or planning information available for review by its carrier partners and the public.
Features include:
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Public asset inventory database
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Fully sortable, shareable, downloadable content
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Web-enabled, cloud-based GIS dashboard
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API-ready for integrating existing municipal application and custom service
Asset Reservations Management
Cloud-based administration capabilities for creating and managing Reservations, for 5G and Smart/IOT deployments.
Cities benefit most where access to current, accurate asset data results in improved approval and permitting outcomes. Carries and 3rd party providers typically expend significant resources on data collection in the process of site and asset identification for prospective deployment locations.
The intersection of these events presents a unique opportunity to capture data and requirements early in the process that are important to successful planning for both parties.
Introducing the Asset Reservation
An AIMS-delivered Asset Reservation provides the city with carrier-supplied data that can be used to improve and/or validate existing inventory data.
Planners and Carriers can enable an on-line reservation of a pole top or public asset online, via the via the platform via the AIMS Reservation portal.
City Planning formally sequesters the requested asset for a fixed, city-mandated period (i.e., 60, 90,120 days.). Multiple assets can be reserved, with the actual number being predefined by the city.
Carriers can move forward with standard pre-engineering work without worrying about assets being re-assigned, or previously unavailable.
City planners can inform carriers as to the status of public assets for siting (i.e., available, in-process, unavailable, etc.). Planners can also visually promote the status of existing or planned 5G/Smart deployments on both public, private and utility-owned assets for review by carriers and the public.
Municipal Audits
Cities build up a wide variety of assets in the public ROW. Typically, these additions take place over time, with reduced oversight. Knowing what's where and how much "stuff" is populating the public space is important to planning new services and improving quality of life.
NxTgen provides high-volume, physical surveys for any mix of assets in the ROW. Only physical audits can deliver the quality of information and level of detail necessary to conduct planning "from a desktop".
Features Include:
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Streetlights, manholes, traffic signal poles, above-ground boxes, street furniture, signage, etc., any asset in the right-of-way
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Up to (34) attributes, (7) Photos.
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All databased and mapped within AIMS
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Downloadable and exportable to existing GIS and database management systems.
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Accelerates and improves site selection outcomes and ongoing asset management for cities and carriers
Publish Asset Availability, Record Reservations, Manage Carrier Application and Permitting Workflow via a Single Shareable Source
Web-enabled. Designed To Simplify Planning and Approvals for Pole Top Technology Adds/Moves/Changes "in the cloud".
Record and manage siting requests on public and private assets early through an online Reservation.
All The Capabilities Cities
Need To Optimize 5G, Smart/IOT Deployments In
The Right-Of-Way
Capture, measure and share carrier and 3rd party vendor construction and delivery performance.
NXTGEN LEADERSHIP
Steve Peloso, President/Founder
Steve has over 30 years of experience in identifying challenges and solving problems with technology. Prior to founding NxTgen, he held senior-level positions in multiple start-ups and emerging technology companies. He has led regional and national teams at Fortune 200 companies including Lucent Technologies, Motorola and NCR. His vision for NxTgen is reflected in the company's customer-centric focus and approach to delivering practical solutions with measurable results. Steve holds both his BS and MBA from Providence College.
Ed Gentile, Chief Operating Officer
Ed has over 35 years of experience in wireless technologies. He has held executive management roles at several leading-edge technology companies. His teams have built and managed thousands of DAS/small cells and numerous fiber networks throughout the US. As an executive at NextG, now Crown Castle, his team was one of the early pioneers in outdoor DAS deployment. Ed brings an intimate knowledge of the small cell deployment process to help cities optimize their approach to engaging 5G and IOT deployments in the right of way. Ed holds a BSEE from Clarkson University.
OUR GOALS
Maximizing public infrastructure value while facilitating improved business outcomes between cities and their telecom/technology partners.
Delivering innovative, cloud-based municipal asset management and change control solutions to support long term planning.
Providing cities with a simple, trusted method to obtain and optimize the information required to assess and approve 5G/Smart/IOT service deployments.
On-Demand. As a Service
NXTGEN LEADERSHIP
Steve Peloso, President/Founder
Steve has over 30 years of experience in identifying challenges and solving problems with technology. Prior to founding NxTgen, he held senior-level positions in multiple start-ups and emerging technology companies. He has led regional and national teams at Fortune 200 companies including Lucent Technologies, Motorola and NCR. His vision for NxTgen is reflected in the company's customer-centric focus and approach to delivering practical solutions with measurable results. Steve holds both his BS and MBA from Providence College.
Ed Gentile, Chief Operating Officer
Ed has over 35 years of experience in wireless technologies. He has held executive management roles at several leading-edge technology companies. His teams have built and managed thousands of DAS/small cells and numerous fiber networks throughout the US. As an executive at NextG, now Crown Castle, his team was one of the early pioneers in outdoor DAS deployment. Ed brings an intimate knowledge of the small cell deployment process to help cities optimize their approach to engaging 5G and IOT deployments in the right of way. Ed holds a BSEE from Clarkson University.