Verizon has acquired the assets of New York-based WiFi kiosk supplier and smart city start-up LQD WiFi, and will insert LQD’s technology into the smart community infrastructure offerings of Sensity Systems, another recent addition to Verizon’s bulging IoT arsenal. The US operator hopes to deploy LQD’s Palo technology hubs on a wide scale. These act as multifaceted resource kiosks, with their key consumer appeal lying in the free WiFi networks provided by each kiosk, thereby potentially forming a municipal WiFi network – solving the backhaul problem that burdens network providers. Building a municipal WiFi network enables other IoT players to jump on board the network, which could provide a functional alternative to LPWAN usage in the build out of smart…