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Before Juneau's Housing First Project opened its doors in September, 2017, the city had no supportive housing options for homeless people. Fortunately, that has changed. Providing housing for the homeless presents a variety of challenges for cities...
Article - 06/29/2018
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Health and human services
When it comes to smart cities projects, there’s what people are saying and what people are doing. Our monthly Inside Look series tracks the latter by examining what cities are planning, soliciting and buying. Below, you’ll learn about some of the...
Article - 06/28/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Finance and procurement
‘Everyone wins’ with Smart Cities Project Activator, a new Smart Cities Council and Tr3Dent collaboration that accelerates project scoping and financing.Washington, DC June 28th, 2018 — At the Enterprise Ireland IoT & Smart Cities Forum this...
Article - 06/28/2018
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America
Two months ago we shared a story about San Jose's agreement with Council Global Lead Partner AT&T for the deployment of small cell technology to improve citywide wireless communications, enhance its first responders communications network,...
Article - 06/22/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity
Edmonton is like many other cities. Its population is growing and it's facing expensive infrastructure upgrades. One of the city's needed upgrades is traffic signals — at about 400 intersections. Knowing the upgrades are necessary, the city is...
Article - 06/22/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Transportation
Do smart cities initiatives really make a difference? Ask Philadelphia, which found a way to trim more than 200 hours — nearly five and a half weeks — from a time-consuming process. It’s a reduction of about 90%. The savings are real.Philadelphia is...
Article - 06/21/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Finance and procurement
A report from McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) reveals how a variety of applications can significantly improve urban quality of life indicators, from reduced fatalities to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The report, Smart Cities: Digital Solutions...
Article - 06/15/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
The toll continues to rise in the aftermath of a ransomware attack on Atlanta’s computer systems. Since March, the city has asked for nearly $15 million to restore its corrupted systems. More than a third of the programs it uses were thrown offline...
Article - 06/14/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Security and privacy
Last week, we hosted our first Readiness Workshop as part of our 2018 Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge. We started in Cary, NC — a very impressive town that has a clear view of how all the elements of the community need to come together.That...
Article - 06/14/2018
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Scroll down for quick news takes and events involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Smarter water resources management for a quickly growing countyVirginia's Loudoun County is among the fastest growing counties in the U.S. — and industrial and...
Article - 06/14/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
This page contains all of the infographics produced during the Cary Readiness Workshop on June 8. Click on an infographic to access and download a high-resolution version.Introductory sessions and smart cities framework Background for...
Article - 06/14/2018
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Connected car technologies have the potential to increase traffic safety and reduce congestion, not to mention make driving more convenient. Council Associate Partners Panasonic, Intel and Ford and Global Lead Partner Qualcomm will work together to...
Article - 06/08/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity
The announcement this week that Kansas City is expanding its Smart City program didn't come as much of a surprise. The program, which kicked off two years ago in conjunction with its KC Streetcar project, was initiated in relatively small but...
Article - 06/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
Dirty air has consequences — very serious consequences ranging from climate change to lung disease. In villages in India, clean-burning stoves are one key solution. The problem has been getting people to use them.Below, read about an innovative...
Article - 06/07/2018
Active Region(s): India, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Analytics, Citizen engagement
Challenge statementHow can Cary more effectively access and analyze cross-sector data from legacy and IoT systems to enable a ONE Cary approach to community understanding and improvement? TOPICSData Management ProgramIntegrationAnalysis ...
Article - 06/07/2018
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Cary
Challenge statementReducing sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs); Improving response speed/effectiveness to SSOs; streamlining wastewater collection system management to make O&M more efficient; ONE Cary integration across systems TOPICS ...
Article - 06/07/2018
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Cary
Challenge statementImprove the safety and efficiency of the transportation and mobility system through ONE Cary integration across systems, streamlined data analytics, Connected Vehicles, and Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (ATSPMs)...
Article - 06/07/2018
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Cary
When it comes to smart cities projects, there’s what people are saying and what people are doing. Our monthly Inside Look series tracks the latter by examining what cities are planning, soliciting and buying. Below, you’ll learn about some of the...
Article - 06/06/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Finance and procurement
These are the presentations used by the Town of Cary during its Readiness Workshop to illustrate its priorities and its roadmap.
Resources - 06/18/2018
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Cary
These are the slides that were used during the Setting the Smart Cities Context portion of the Cary, NC, Readiness Workshop.
Resources - 06/18/2018
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Cary