BROWSING: London
The WBA, partners complete Wi-Fi OpenRoaming trial in London
The London Wi-Fi OpenRoaming trial achieved download speeds of 340 Mbps and upload speeds of 350 Mbps, according to project partners
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) announced the completion of an advanced public Wi-Fi OpenRoaming proof-of-concept (PoC) in Shoreditch, London. WBA worked with streetside telecoms infrastructure asset...
Europe, Asia Pacific lead smart cities index – for connectivity, services, engagement
In order, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Beijing, London, and Seoul ranked as the top five smart cities, or ‘digital cities’, in a new study by Economist Impact. New York, Sydney, Singapore, Washington DC, and Paris rounded out the top 10, meaning Europe and Asia Pacific contributed...
Three smart city initiatives around the world
All around the world, cities are becoming smarter, greener, more efficient. In fact, according to a May 2019 study conducted by Grand View Research, the global smart city market is expected to reach $237.6 billion by 2025.
From small-scale trials focused on simplifying the commute...
Cities not ready for AI – even the world’s smartest can’t handle getting any smarter
No city in the world is ready for the disruption that artificial intelligence (AI) will bring. This is the conclusion of a new review by management consultancy Oliver Wyman, which considers the readiness of 105 cities to cope with AI-inspired digital change, and finds...
Vision Zero: the Swedish road safety concept driving smart city policy
The Vision Zero concept remains a favourite of smart cities and smart traffic systems, as we cover them, and a go-to policy for politicians seeking change in traffic-related planning. Put simply, it describes a vision of a road system where zero lives are lost....
London intros major IoT project to clean up city’s “filthy air”, tackle “public health crisis”
A major new internet of things (IoT) project has launched in London to investigate improve the city’s toxic air. The initiative, Breathe London, claims “the world’s most advanced and comprehensive network of air quality monitors”.
The project is a collaboration between the Mayor of London,...
Surveillance, transport, lighting top for smart cities, as total spending to jump 95% by 2022
Visual surveillance, public transport, and street lighting will command nearly one quarter of spending by smart cities this year, according to new figures from research house IDC.
The Asia-Pacific region, including China and Japan, will account for 42 per cent of spending in 2018, followed...
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, we consider the second of these measures - the top 10 smart cities, globally,...
London hatches five-step digital plan to be smartest city of them all
London has set out a five-point digital strategy to make it the smartest city in the world.
Among more than 20 initiatives, bucketed into five ‘mission’ themes, the plan details a new Civic Innovation Challenge to match startups with enterprises, a new London Office for...
Cumulocity IoT platform retro-fitted to London buses, joins Telefónica IoT portfolio
Software AG's Cumulocity IoT platform is to be retro-fitted to 5,000 London buses by 2021, as part of plans by the Greater London Authority to reduce carbon emissions from its public transport services. The German software company’s platform has also been added to Spanish...