
Verizon and AWS add MEC to 5G for IoT developers in Chicago, Houston, Phoenix
Verizon has added compute and storage into its 5G network infrastructure in Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix. Its project to build-out its multi-access edge compute (MEC) infrastructure, in partnership with AWS, …

Las Vegas and Chicago use camera-based AI to enforce parking and traffic regulations
The City of Las Vegas is to pay $1.58 million over five years for a range of camera-based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to automate the enforcement of parking and traffic …

Dallas rejigs digital team, as AT&T reveals first proofs of local smart city works
The City of Dallas has appointed its first chief innovation officer (CINO) to lead its newly created ‘office of innovation’ and drive “operational and technological improvements” in the city. The …

The biggest smart street-lighting deployments in the world – a rough guide (updated 12/18)
Back in August, Enterprise IoT Insights published a list of the biggest smart street-lighting deployments. It was an imperfect list, then, we acknowledged, and likely to be an iterative exercise …

The biggest smart street-lighting deployments – a rough guide
Note, this article was updated on December 6, 2018; to see the updated version, click here. News that the City of Chicago has already upgraded over 76,000 street lights to …

The top 10 smart cities – ranked according to their applications and activity
New 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, …

The top 10 smart cities – ranked according to their infrastructure and potential
New 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
The 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. …

Rain, cloud and the ‘Windy City’: How IoT is helping Chicago fight flooding
Sometimes you need indisputable proof to act upon even the clearest assumptions. If you’re a city council, spending public money on infrastructure to save local communities, this burden of proof …

Mastercard and Microsoft pool smart city tech, as former NYC CTO joins
Mastercard and Microsoft are to pool their payment, data analytics and cloud technologies to create a smart city “exchange” to help mayors, policy makers and urban planners tackle urban challenges …