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Joining the league of cities with smart solutions, Coimbatore from now will monitor air quality for its citizens. The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation has installed 30 solar-powered air quality monitoring devices to address city’s air pollution...
Article - 07/17/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control, Smart City Tools
In an age where your smartphone can tell you exactly when you need to leave to arrive on time, for many people, the level of service they get from utilities can seem a bit ancient. After all, water utilities still occasionally surprise homeowners...
Article - 03/30/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Data — and the ability to act on it in real-time — is the very bedrock of a smart city. But what’s an efficient way to build the data infrastructure you need? San Diego provides a great roadmap.San Diego is using its street lights as a springboard....
Article - 03/09/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
During a game, a ballpark basically becomes a small city. But a few hours before or after it can practically be a ghost town. Those dramatic usage swings set up a tremendous opportunity for waste.In San Diego, however, the cost of running Petco Park...
Article - 08/25/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Cities have many reasons to get smart. Climate mandates. Economic development. Operational efficiency. New research suggests that you can make gains on these and other goals by working towards smart buildings. First, by updating the city’s own...
Article - 06/22/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Cities really are in the customer service business. Thus, when it snows and residents can’t get to where they need to go, it’s the city’s problem. Just ask former Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels. According to Grist Magazine, he lost his 2008 re-election...
Article - 05/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Don't think that smart city innovations come only from big cities. Consider, for instance, what is taking place in eastern Washington and parts of Idaho. As you will read below, the regional utility is modernizing its electric and gas infrastructure...
Article - 05/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Instrumentation and control
By Dr. Michael J. Dixon, General Manager, Smarter Cities, IBM There is no doubt that IBM’s focus on the emerging Cognitive Era will have an impact in cities and state, local, and regional governments around the world in 2016. After leading a broad...
Article - 01/15/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Instrumentation and control, Interoperability
David Logsdon is the senior director of public advocacy for CompTIA, the influential high-tech trade association. (The name stands for Computing Technology Industry Association.) He runs their New and Emerging Technologies Committee, which focuses...
Article - 10/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Birmingham cabinet member for waste and recycling Lisa Trickett.Wanting to keep its streets cleaner and encourage more recycling, the Birmingham, UK city council teamed with Council Associate Partner Enevo and Wybone to position larger-capacity...
Article - 10/02/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Waste management, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
It may seem strange that what is likely a unique initiative in agriculture is taking place in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. But that's exactly what is happening in Montgomery County, Maryland. More specifically, the center of attention is the...
Article - 09/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Why digital citizenship is a vital part of education An interesting Q&A on the Verizon website features two experts in digital citizenship talking about why kids need an early introduction to appropriate use of technology. To put it in...
Article - 08/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
When a comprehensive energy efficiency upgrade is completed for the 82 buildings on three community college campuses in the San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD), the district will be the first in California to integrate building...
Article - 07/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
There’s no question that cities are growing fast. Meantime, there’s more attention than ever on cutting carbon emissions in an attempt to mitigate climate change.The two trends seem mutually exclusive, but a new report shared by Council Lead Partner...
Article - 07/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Many organizations today are working toward or planning to conduct big data projects, but the great majority of those efforts are doomed to fail, according to an SAP blog.Why is that?In a webcast titled "Operationalizing IoT Data for Predictive...
Article - 07/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management, Instrumentation and control
The worrisome condition of the electric power industry's aging infrastructure has been well-documented. In 2013, for example, a Congressional hearing was told that U.S. power transformers average 40-plus years in age and that 70% of the grid’s...
Article - 07/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Qualcomm takes on the 1000x mobile data challenge To address the challenge of all our connected devices putting a serious strain on network capacity, Council Lead Partner Qualcomm is working on new...
Article - 06/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Waste management, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
You hear a lot of talk about Big Data. But what's really needed is Big Insights. You don't want to drown in the data tsunami. Rather you want your system to parse that data on its own and pull out the key alerts, issues, and opportunities for your...
Article - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…How IBM is helping improve traffic flow on busy New Jersey roadways The New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway are two of the most heavily traveled highways and business toll roads in the U.S....
Article - 06/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
When the water supply is short -- as it is now in regions around the world due to drought -- many fingers get pointed at groups that appear to be the biggest water wasters. But at least some of those fingers should be pointed at municipal water...
Article - 06/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control