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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
When electric vehicles began rolling off assembly lines in appreciable quantities there were concerns about how they would affect electric grids. Among those worries was that large numbers of EVs charging at one time in a neighborhood could...
Article - 03/30/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Transportation
Rendering courtesy of PanasonicDenver officials and Council Associate Partner Panasonic have embarked on a new phase in an overall plan to make the city a more livable, sustainable place for its citizens — and better able to accommodate its growing...
Article - 02/15/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation
What would you do if your city lost 10% of its jobs? A new report suggests that could happen in New York City. And here’s the kicker: job losses would likely be worse in your city.While automation has been taking place for well over a hundred years...
Article - 01/11/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development
Scroll down for quick news takes on Smart Cities Council partners.Sensus recognized by rural electric cooperativesFor the second consecutive year, rural cooperative utility leaders recognized Council Global Lead Partner Sensus, a Xylem brand, and...
Article - 12/08/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Payments, Transportation, Water and wastewater
All or at least most of us have probably done it — fought off drowsiness while driving. Driving late at night, after a long day, not getting enough sleep the night before or trying to get a few more hours of driving in during a long trip. The...
Article - 08/03/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Analytics
If it's hard as adults to make sense of what's going on in our world, imagine what kids must think of today's challenges – from famine and climate change to all manner of human atrocities. We can get a glimpse from Panasonic's Kid Witness News (KWN...
Article - 07/24/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water
Scroll down for quick news takes on Smart Cities Council partners.Major advance in Schneider Electric and Microsoft collaborationThanks to a partnership between Council Lead Partners Schneider Electric and Microsoft, companies now have access to...
Article - 05/25/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Connectivity
Scroll down for quick news takes from Smart Cities Council partners.Schneider Electric's smart controls for USMCCouncil Lead Partner Schneider Electric will provide smart controls systems as part of a major project for cutting energy use and...
Article - 03/23/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Public safety and security
Scroll down for quick news takes from Smart Cities Council partners.Transdev joins driverless car projectCouncil Associate Partner Transdev has signed on with the Renault-Nissan Alliance to develop an advanced driverless mobility system intended to...
Article - 03/09/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Analytics
In its Global Food Security Index for 2016, The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city-state of Singapore No. 3 behind the U.S. and Ireland as most food secure. That's an interesting statistic for a populous island that has very little farm...
Article - 02/10/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
You could say that smart street lights have been the 'Next Big Thing' for smart cities for the last several years and not get much of an argument. They're often the smart city initiative cities tackle first because they promise energy efficiency...
Article - 02/02/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security
Scroll down for quick news summaries from Council partners.Tesla signs Panasonic to build solar cellsCouncil Lead Partner Panasonic will build solar cells and modules for electric car and solar products company Tesla at the company's 'Gigafactory'...
Article - 01/05/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Connectivity, Data management
The project outlined in the release below is a good example of how smart, sustainable technologies, the right partners and careful but innovative planning can do far more than simply provide clean, reliable renewable energy for a facility. They can...
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation
We've written numerous articles on connected car technology and their potential for making city driving safer and more convenient and traffic more manageable. But it turns out at least one state is taking an innovative connected car approach to...
Article - 10/28/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners.Black & Veatch head procurement, construction for Pennsylvania power plantCouncil Associate Partner Black & Veatch is responsible for engineering, procurement and construction of a new...
Article - 10/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Connectivity
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners.Black & Veatch wins major natural gas contractAssociate Partner Black & Veatch has won engineering, procurement and construction services contract for a proposed 925 MW natural gas combined...
Article - 08/24/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Public safety and security, Finance and procurement
The concept of building a smart city from the ground up isn't new. Construction on Abu Dhabi's Masdar began in 2006 and planning for South Korea's Songdo "aerotropolis"(it'sadjacent to Incheon International Airport) began in 2003. As impressive and...
Article - 08/11/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Connectivity
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners.Huawei and China Telecom to bring Shenzhen, China gigaband connectivityIn an initiative to boost economic and social development, Council Associate Partner Huawei and China Telecom will work together...
Article - 08/09/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
When a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami severely damaged communities in Japan's Tohoku region in 2011, the area required a massive amount of reconstruction. And that involved moving residential areas to higher ground. The reconstruction and...
Resources - 06/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Computing resources