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InterDigital webinar: Smart Cities: How will you and your city be impacted?

While the global urbanization trend seems to be unstoppable, with cities continuing to be hubs for social and economic opportunity across the globe, the cost of living in cities is skyrocketing, threatening to increase social inequality, slow down economic growth, and push up crime...

Cisco to invest $1 billion in smart cities

The capital pool is intended to support municipal adoption of smart cities technologies In many ways smart cities are the ultimate application of the internet of things—a huge variety of connected devices and infrastructure create volumes of data that can be analyzed to create multi-level...

Bill Gates investing $80 million in Arizona smart city

New smart city will embrace "high-speed digital networks, data centers" and other technology-focused infrastructure To the west of Phoenix, Ariz., an 25,000-acre plot of land could eventually be home to a greenfield smart city thanks to significant investment from billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, according...

In-Building wireless: what to know before signing on the dotted line

  Everyone has experienced it. You’re outside, talking on your phone or looking at the latest breaking news, or checking what’s happening on social media, and as soon as you step inside — an office building, a shop, your apartment — your connection suddenly slows,...

African nations start to focus on smart city initiatives

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...

Olivetti targets manufacturers and smart cities

The Italian company recently launched new smart factory solutions for manufacturers Olivetti has unveiled its new smart cities portfolio which includes smart solutions for the environment, crowd control and smart lighting segments. The suite of products includes: Olivetti Smart Clean Air:  a solution consisting of an...

Deutsche Telekom kicks off smart city initiative in Bonn

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...

Google’s Sidewalk Labs planning a greenfield smart city

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,...

Silver Spring Networks completes IoT network rollout in Dubai

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...

Top three smart cities in South Korea

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...

Cisco secures new smart city project in the U.K.

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...

London is the smartest city in U.K., study finds

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...

The key role of smart lighting in building a smart city

Smart lighting serves as a 'vertical asset' that provides for a platform for further IoT initiatives CHICAGO--Coming with a clear path to return on investment and capable of serving to support broader smart city and internet of things ambitions, smart lighting is a major driver...

NIST looks to help smart city projects scale up

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...

As a global tourist hub, smart city transformation key in Orlando

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 Cities: Seizing the opportunity

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Cities will be a dominating force shaping both the problems and the solutions of the future, according to Carl Pope, former executive director and chairman of the Sierra Club. Pope spoke in a keynote address at Smart Cities Week D.C., addressing the opportunities...

The kings of smart city connectivity: Sigfox vs. LoRa

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...

Five extant smart city challenges

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 cities: Connectivity and beyond

At Smart Cities Week D.C., experts discuss connectivity -- and beyond WASHINGTON, D.C.--Cities are expected to see enormous growth in the coming decades, and local, state and federal officials are hoping that technology can help mitigate some of the issues that will come along with...

Which US cities can benefit most from smart city transformation?

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...

Five smart cities under the radar

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...

The top 10 smart city suppliers

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,...

What are smart cities 2.0?

The smart cities market proclaims it has reached a new phase in its evolution, at last, which is showing tangible results in terms of operational efficiencies and sustainability. With familiar terminology, borrowed from the world of software, it has dubbed this new phase ‘Smart...

ROI leading to acceleration in IoT projects

"Those that have adopted IoT are pushing ahead at scale, spending more...than 12 months ago," Erik Brenneis, Vodafone internet of things director and CEO of Global Enterprise, wrote in the telecom group's annual IoT Barometer 2017/18 report. "Many have also dramatically increased the number of...