BROWSING: Smart Cities

Acute urbanization combined with years of infrastructure neglect creates challenges on path to smart city projects in Africa Despite most of Africa’s largest cities are still undergoing an urbanization process, smart city initiatives are being embraced by a number of African governments. The International Telecommunication Union...

Deutsche Telekom's smart city plan includes the deployment of connected street lights and smart waste containers Deutsche Telekom and the municipal government of Bonn have kicked off a program to deploy smart city initiatives across the German city. Under the smart city program, Deutsche Telekom will...

Area outside of Toronto targeted for a holistic smart city build Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google-parent company Alphabet, is planning to build a smart city from the ground up in an area of Toronto southeast of downtown called Quayside. In many smart city projects,...

The utility firm is working with Landis+Gyr to implement a nationwide deployment of smart meters Global provider of energy management solutions Landis+Gyr said it is working with British Gas to deploy new smart meters in the U.K. The company said that the first of the...

Fostering long-term innovation is key to Barcelona's smart city ambitions Barcelona has been very active in terms of the deployment of smart city initiatives over the last few years. One key element of the Spanish city’s smart city plan is the so-called ‘Smart City Campus’ which...

The smart traffic initiative stipulates the deployment of smart signals on 14 corridors across the state Maryland’s Governor Larry Hogan announced  the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) is investing $50.3 million to deploy smart traffic signals that will improve traffic operation and ease congestion for...

Huawei is using NB-IoT and LPWA to improve water metering and improve piping management Huawei Japan and Japanese firm Aichi Tokei Denki confirmed they will expand their efforts in verifying NB-IoT technologies for smart water metering. The two companies will utilize NB-IoT and LPWA to realize...

Dallas Innovation Alliance working with Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and more on smart city transformation The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) continues to work to turn Dallas into a smart city through the use of IoT technologies. The entity is currently testing several uses cases to implement...

The IoT deployment is part of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s smart initiatives Silver Spring Networks has announced the completion of the deployment of its multi-application IPv6 network canopy for Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA). DEWA’s network canopy extends across the Emirate of Dubai and...

South Korea is well known for the deployment of smart cities projects across several cities. The government, together with private investment, is making efforts to expand these initiatives in areas, including traffic, government services, security, energy and the environment. According to a previous study by...

The U.S. networking company will work with the city of Southend-on-Sea in a number of smart city initiatives Cisco has signed a new agreement for the deployment of a number of smart city initiatives in Southend-on-Sea, in the U.K. Southend-on-Sea said that the primary goal of...

Scotland’s major cities occupy the second and third position in the top 10 smart cities list London is considered as the smartest city across the U.K., according to a recent study by Juniper Research. The study, which has identified the top 10 smart cities in...

Nokia and the government of Sendai will focus on public safety and disaster recovery among other smart city initiatives Nokia and the city of Sendai, Japan, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deliver technology solutions for local businesses as they recover from the...

Global City Teams Challenge provides collaborative forum for smart city R&D CHICAGO--“We have a problem in IoT and smart city in general. We’re extremely fragmented," Sokwoo Rhee, associate director of the cyber physical systems program at the National Institute of Standards Technology told attendees to...

Inter-departmental coordination is imperative for smart city success Hospitality industry nonprofit Visit Orlando figures around 68 million people visited the Central Florida theme park destination in 2016. In a metro area with more than 2.3 million residents, the addition of tourists can create issues ranging...

Smart lighting lays the groundwork for a smart city The City of Oslo needed a street lighting solution to satisfy European directives to reduce energy use and carbon dioxide emissions. The Norwegian capital also wanted to lower street light operating costs, ensure driver and pedestrian...

Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, is one of the world’s largest metropolitan areas by population. The local government was facing a challenge with frequent waste management, collection and overflow issues That is why the Seoul metropolitan government came to Ecube Labs. With an...

If anything, the idea of a smart city in the conventional sense – where everyday infrastructure is connected up and joined together to bring new intelligence and innovation to city operations – has been made real by low-power wide area (LPWA) technologies. It is these...

By degrees, digital technology is finding its way into city operations, and making cities more efficient and more sustainable. Statistics bear this out. IDC calculates nearly a half of European cities are in some phase of digital transformation into a smart city, and U.S....

Smart city projects cover public safety, traffic management, sustainability The city of San Jose, in California, has been taking rapid steps towards the implementation of a city-wide smart city program. In January 2017, San Jose’s smart cities and service improvements committee was approved by the City...

The NB-IoT project is a joint initiative between Nordic telco Telia Norway and Datek Light Control Nordic telecom group Telia Company and Datek Light Control have developed a prototype for smart street lighting in Norway using narrowband-internet of things (NB-IoT) technology. Telia said the new prototype...

Pair of studies focus on where and how smart city tech can make the biggest difference In many ways the digital transformation from a city to a smart city is the ultimate application of the internet of things--the umbrella term covers a wide array of...

Alba Iulia, Romania Orange has funded and developed the first and biggest integrated smart cities project in Romania, in the city of Alba Iulia, capital of Alba County in Transylvania. The French network operator has worked with the city since late 2016 to expand and...

Cisco has beaten IBM for the first time to the top spot in Navigant Research’s poll of the top smart city suppliers. IBM, which has ranked in first position in each of the consultancy group’s previous assessments of suppliers in the smart city market,...