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Calgary, Alberta already has a track record for innovation, thanks to its commitment to a long-term vision for a communication infrastructure that connects as many assets as possible to improve city services. And that commitment is yielding...
Article - 12/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
In 2016, global technology analyst Gartner pessimistically predicted that 60% of the world’s data initiatives would fail. By the end of last year, this number had been revised up to 85%.While it’s important to fail fast, no one wants to fail often....
Article - 07/21/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Analytics, Data management
When you consider the assets that any council builds, owns and manages, it’s easy to focus on the bricks and mortar, the parks, gardens, roads and fleet. But there is an invisible asset that is arguably more valuable than those physical assets: data...
Article - 07/21/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Analytics, Data management
Is the planning profession ready for the future? This question was asked at the New Zealand Planning Institute’s event in Wellington on 21 June where panel speakers engaged with members and the institute’s board about future technology and urban...
Article - 07/04/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Built environment, Analytics, Data management
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
It sounds like a smart cities project: set up areas to serve as living labs so smart technologies and applications can be tested as solutions for local problems. There is no dominant city in the area, so San Mateo County and its partners are using a...
Article - 05/24/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
It's frustrating when you want to use a city service only to find it's out of order. It may be out of the city's control, but it still reflects poorly on the service. But there are smart city technologies that can help cities improve the services...
Article - 04/19/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Telecommunications, Analytics, Connectivity
Behind the scenes of the smart city, often hidden away out of plain sight, is the backbone infrastructure that keeps it all together – the data centre. At the Council, we refer to the core functions of the smart city as being collect, communicate...
Article - 04/18/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Analytics, Data management
This week I had the pleasure of leading a Readiness Workshop in Fairfax County, Virginia — a smart cities leader and one of the finalists in our 2018 Smart Cities Readiness Challenge. As you’ll read below, the county already has so much to celebrate...
Article - 03/22/2018
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Fairfax County, Analytics, Citizen engagement
It takes smart, highly skilled people to use and manage the technologies and systems that make smart cities operate efficiently and reliably. But as the majority of CIOs will tell you, it can be a challenge to find them — in part because businesses...
Article - 03/22/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
Technologies that help cities manage their traffic better are going to save all of us time, whether we're driving a car, riding a bus or negotiating traffic on foot or on a bike. But a new study sponsored by Council Associate Partner Intel uncovered...
Article - 03/15/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Transportation, Analytics
A few weeks ago we published a story on Council Global Lead Partner Oracle's innovative strategy to provide a high-tech education program for high school students — as a way to help fill the talent gap in technology professions. A recently released...
Article - 12/28/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Telecommunications, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
Moscow city officials describe their My Street initiative as "the world's largest redevelopment project." Considering the scale and scope of the project outlined in the story below it might be hard to argue with them. While an urban makeover of this...
Article - 12/01/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity
The Smart Cities Council has always said cities shouldn't go it alone when developing their smart city planning and implementation strategies: learn from the successes of those cities that have already made the commitments and taken the risks to...
Article - 10/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
If you haven’t struggled with a water shortage yet, your time is coming. And likely soon.There is only a tiny fraction of states that haven’t struggled with this issue yet, and that number shrinks a bit each year. That’s why it’s critical to make...
Article - 09/14/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics
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
Commissioning India’s tallest MET tower is not an easy task. India recently erected its tallest lattice MET tower that stretches 150 metre (m) high and features an array of latest technologies, including 40C anemometers, 200P wind vanes, 110S...
Article - 07/20/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Analytics, Data management, Smart City Tools
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
Known for its several innovations, the Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO) has recently developed a chip-based system for Indian Railways (IR) that will avert accidents at unmanned level crossing.Across India, as many as 613 people have...
Article - 07/14/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Analytics, Data management, Smart City Tools