BROWSING: Smart Cities

Cognitive approach to building a safe and smart city Fawzi Behmann, President, TelNet Management Consulting, Inc. Vice-Chair and DL, IEEE NA Communications Society https://youtu.be/EMRHIe_2d2s Fawzi is a visionary, thought leader, author, entrepreneur and contributor in advancing adoption of technology in serving humanity. Fawzi spent over 30 years in...

Marcus Welz, CEO, Siemens Intelligent Traffic Systems, kicks off a session in which Robert Frey, Planning Director, Tampa Hillsborough County Expressway Authority and Steve Novosad, System Engineering Lead, Tampa Hillsborough County Expressway Authority will discuss Connected vehicles in Florida. https://youtu.be/EXxNoxnpzFg Marcus Welz leads the Siemens Intelligent Traffic...

Tech Innovation and Society Joseph Kopser President, Grayline.  Cofounder of RideScout https://youtu.be/5nTqLgkEn2c Joseph Kopser is the President of Grayline. At Grayline, Joseph works to bring together experts, data, and solutions to help companies and public institutions manage disruptive change. Before joining Grayline, he was the Global President...

Chelsea Colliers kicks off the Smart Cities, Vehicles & Transportation panel at the Enterprise IoT Summit, in Austin, Texas. Chelsea is dedicated to fostering collaboration across the public and private sector in order to connect and engage communities to solve civic challenges. Her current focus...

Carlo Ratti, Director of the Senseable City Lab, MiT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, explains the senseable city concept in a keynote presentation at the Enterprise IoT Summit, in Austin, Texas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuyaeU-Iaj8 Ratti starts his keynote presentation highlighting the fact that modern cities are being...

The deal stipulates cooperation in IoT and smart cities fields Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica has signed an agreement with compatriot infrastructure company Ferrovial for the provision of a range of communications services. Under the terms of the five-year agreement, Telefonica will provide fixed and mobile technology,...

Submission deadline for Enterprise IoT Innovator and Industrialist of the year nominations extended to Sunday, March 26, 2017. Submit your nomination today for recognition as an IIoT or 5G Innovator, Industrialist of the year. Selections will be announced at the Enterprise IoT Summit 2017 on Tuesday,...

The initiative stipulates the digitalization of up to 11,000 parking spaces. Deutsche Telekom and the city of Hamburg, Germany, are currently working to connect many of the city's parking areas to allow drivers to find available spaces and pay parking fees through...

Over the last few years, the city of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, has been heavily using the information and communication technology to bring the government closer to the citizens under the umbrella of its Smart City Plan. It has adopted solutions that are...

Smart toilet technology informs festival attendees of bathroom wait times. Organizers of the Rock in Rio festival selected Vodafone to supply smart city solutions to tackle a number of challenges in the execution of the music festival. The Rock in Rio festival started in Brazil...

Digi-Tel smart city platform eases access to municipal services Tel Aviv’s core smart city project is Digi-Tel, a platform that provides personalized access to services and information via email, text messages, a tailored website, and a tailored mobile app. The information provided by this platform...

The project stipulates a smart city initiative in China’s Pilot Free Trade Zone Hengqin PCCW Global, the international operating division of Hong Kong telecoms services provider HKT, and Chinese company Zhuhai Da Hengqin Technology Development Company (DHQ Tech) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...

When it comes to smart cities, it's all about 'leveraging municipality relationships.' "Smart cities," a term that covers a range of cyberphysical technology deployments dependent on various types of network connectivity, have emerged as an attractive vertical for service providers, vendors and other telecom stakeholders....

Smartphones, smart cars, smart homes – once enough of the amenities and tools in our lives become “smarter,” it’s only natural that they would pool together into smart cities. And, that’s exactly what’s on the horizon. The internet of things is rapidly facilitating the growth...

A local water utility water utility tested connectivity management of a telemetry solution for residential water meters. Spanish telecommunications operator Telefónica, Chinese vendor Huawei and global supplier of intelligent energy and water metering solutions Kamstrup have successfully deployed their first project with real user’s data...

South Korean city began its smart city project in 2003, and now monitors transportation and crime prevention efforts. Anyang, a city of 600,000 people near South Korea’s capital Seoul, has been developing its smart city project since 2003. The initiative began with the...

The new acquisition will allow Telit to grow in IoT segments including smart cities, home automation, healthcare and asset management Telit, a global enabler of the internet of things (IoT), has announced the acquisition of Silicon Valley-based GainSpan Corporation, a wireless connectivity solution provider that...

The United Nations predicts that, based on an ongoing wave of global urbanization, 70% of the world's population will live and work in urban areas by 2050. As such, smart city technologies, from public Wi-Fi to facilitate access to city services to smart parking...

The deployment is part of AT&T’s Smart Cities spotlight city pilot U.S. company CIVIQ Smartscapes announced the upcoming deployment of its unified smart city solution in the City of Chicago as part of a larger plan to implement smart cities technologies. The company said that as...

Santander is one of the Spanish cities with the highest development of smart city initiatives. Santander, Spain, is working through its SmartSantader smart city program developed by the municipal government as part of the city’s strategic plan for 2010 to 2020. The initiative was...

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In 2014, the government of Singapore launched its Smart Nation vision in which the authorities of the Asian nation stipulated the implementation of a number of smart city initiatives as a response to growing urban challenges including urban density and energy sustainability. The most developed...

As part of smart city initiatives, Ford will work to address air pollution and traffic congestion U.S. vehicle manufacturer Ford said it is working with cities around the world to help address growing mobility challenges in urban environments, including gridlock and air pollution. The company said...

The road to 5G. Glenn Laxdal, CTO and head of strategy at Ericsson North America, hosted a session at this year’s AT&T Developers Conference titled “The Road to 5G," where he outlined how the upcoming mobile network will influence the "internet of...