AT&T is thinking big with its newest project -- to build smart cities.

During the Developer Summit at Consumer Electronics Show, AT&T announces its partnerships with several corporate giants for its goal to help create smart cities. Some of the companies involved in the project are Ericsson, GE, Qualcomm and Cisco, as reported by Fortune.

With this project, the company believes that the "scale is big" as AT&T plans to offer "real-time data on every aspect of the city." 

Furthermore, according to the report, the smart cities initiative "promises to bring everything from traffic monitoring to electric grid management to gunfire detection into one comprehensive ecosystem."

Moreover, Yahoo! notes that through these partnerships, the telecommunications company can move forward towards their goal to be a "one-stop shop for municipalities, states, and the federal agencies looking to service citizens more effectively."

According to Fortune's post, the first few cities that will be part of the project are Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta. Noting that they are "going to go up the stack," AT&T Mobility CEO Glenn Lurie also shared that they "are going to bring things that are complete solutions."

As explained by Fortune, it means that AT&T will offer management and consultative services as well as "coordinating hardware design and integration, and providing a single interface to collate real-time data from an array of sources." Select interfaces for these services will be powered by Jasper Internet of Things, Lurie added. Jasper has already worked with AT&T for its connected cars.

Meanwhile, according to a separate report from Fortune, AT&T reaffirms its commitment to connected health as it opens its latest undertaking in Houston, particularly at Texas Medical Center Institute. Called the AT&T Foundry for Connected Health, it is the fifth innovation center from the carrier network, which focuses on the Internet of things, and the first one to give emphasis on health care.

The Foundry for Connected Health aims to help various companies create digital health advances and innovations, which can connect patients and caregivers through wireless monitoring. The idea is to wirelessly connect all sorts of devices like wheelchairs, glucose meters and more so that patients can better share their health data in and out of medical centers to get better results, the report further explained.  

Learn more about AT&T's smart cities initiative by watching the video below from the telecom company's official YouTube channel: