G20 countries ranked on progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe latest index of countries’ progress against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes for grim reading. No country is on track to achieve the targets, set out by the …
China leads global smart meter deployments at end-Q1, study finds
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailA report by Navigant Research said the Asian country ended March with a total of 496 million installed smart meters China continues to lead the global smart meter market …
The top 10 smart cities – ranked according to their applications and activity
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailNew research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, …
NY, LA to lead smart city charge, as global market for civic tech nears $1bn by 2023
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe global market for smart city information and communications technologies will grow by 15.8 per cent per year on average over the next five years, reaching $994.6 million by 2023. …
Retro-fits, recycling and data: How Stockholm became Europe’s greenest city
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailStockholm is a ‘lighthouse city’, alongside Cologne and Barcelona, in the European Commission’s GrowSmarter project, one of three to receive support in the first ‘Smart Cities and Communities’ (SCC1) call under the Horizon …
How does energy harvesting enable the IoT?
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailMany of the sensors used in IoT are battery-powered and organized into mesh networks. Set to transmit anywhere from every few seconds to every few hours. They can run for …
EC proposes €51.6bn for new industrial transformation tech and infrastructure
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe European Commission (EC) has proposed a total budget of €51.5 billion for new technologies and network infrastructure under its next funding cycle, from 2021 to 2027, to drive industrial …
Mike Bloomberg pledges $112m for smart-city climate change and data sharing
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailFormer mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg has announced packages of $70 million and $42 million respectively to help US smart cities fight climate change and develop their usage of …
Nokia to deploy 100Gbps optical transport network for SGCC power grid in China
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailNokia has won a contract to deliver an optical transport network (OTN) to the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), covering the SGCC’s power grid operations in Beijing and Tianjin. …
Nokia establishes transatlantic test lab for power utilities
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailNokia has linked its ‘energy innovation centre’ in Plano, Texas, with the University of Strathclyde’s power systems lab in Glasgow, Scotland, to create a transatlantic test lab for utilities to …
