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With all the glitter and shine, India’s newly-found tech hub, Telangana, hosted the country’s smartest conclave ever – SMART URBANATION from March 22 to 23, 2018.Being a two day convention-cum-exhibition, SM@RT URBNATION witnessed 50+ industry...
Article - 03/30/2018
Active Region(s): India
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
A lot of transportation planning involves figuring out how to get cars off the road. Typically, that’s about getting cars off the road for good by moving commuters into transit or other forms of shared transportation.But cities shouldn’t overlook...
Article - 03/30/2018
Active Region(s): North America
It's not a big surprise: mass transit ridership has been dropping off in recent years, particularly for buses and light rail, in many cities in the U.S. It's discouraging for cities that envision becoming smart cities to find that one of their...
Article - 03/29/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Transportation
Whenever I participate in working groups at our Readiness Workshops, I usually hear a lot of conversation around data. But by itself, data is just a series of numbers. Smart cities use analytics to turn data into compelling stories.We’re not talking...
Article - 03/29/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Transportation
India’s growing economy means rising demand for water in an already water-stressed country. Despite being common, water is scarce. Tens of hundreds of villages and towns in India run out of water annually partly due to harsh weather conditions, and...
Article - 03/29/2018
Active Region(s): India
India today faces a major challenge in terms of having a macro level planning. The futuristic idea of integrated multi-modal transport cannot be realised unless different departments start coming together. Instead of designing transportation...
Article - 03/29/2018
Active Region(s): India
Two weeks ago, we launched our first Policy Primer of the year titled Digital Built Australia. It is part of a series of similar documents we will publish this year to highlight important policy issues we believe need to be advanced in the lead up...
Article - 03/29/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Built environment
Fairfax, VA – March 27, 2018 – Fairfax County, Virginia – a smart cities leader and a 2018 Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge finalist, recently partnered with the Smart Cities Council to host a Readiness Workshop...
Article - 03/27/2018
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Fairfax County
New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) Smart City has already issued tenders for seven projects and work orders for 14 projects, while work has been completed on 32 projects. “DPRs have been approved for the commercial development of Yashwant...
Article - 03/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
In the current fiscal, Agra Smart City (ASCL) has been allotted Rs 216 crore, out of the total approximate Rs 1,200 crore. ASCL is working on a war footing mode to implement various projects in the city. In this endeavour, the project...
Article - 03/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
There are two types of solutions to a hard problem. One that solves the problem and the other that solves the root cause of the problem. Of course both are necessary depending on the situation and use case. One of the major problems of...
Article - 03/23/2018
Active Region(s): India
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
Numerous studies about urban trees have come to the same conclusion: most cities and communities are losing urban tree canopy, that layer of leaves, stems and branches that cover the ground when seen from above. The U.S. Forest Service says the...
Article - 03/22/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment
Although rural India faces a number of challenges—frequent power outages, scarcity of safe drinking water, poor farm productivity, difficulty in transporting farm produce to the markets and poor education facilities—yet digital technology can surely...
Article - 03/21/2018
Active Region(s): India
In Jabalpur, work is under progress for RFID tagging of household dustbins – tracking and monitoring of household waste collection and community bins – at Rs 6.98 crore; out of 2.50 lakh houses, 1.50 lakh have been tagged. Also, work is in progress...
Article - 03/20/2018
Active Region(s): India
At Vadodara, the focus is on sustainable and inclusive development; the idea is to look at compact areas and create a replicable model that will act like a beacon to other aspiring cities. “The Smart City mission has two layers:...
Article - 03/19/2018
Active Region(s): India
Let’s not overcomplicate this, please. Like we did with sustainability, we don’t need a decade-long process of redefinition of what smart cities is, or isn’t. Yes, interpretations can change over time, and it’s important to evolve. But at its core,...
Article - 03/18/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
The Summit will see participation from across the globe with more than 1,500 delegates and over 40 startups.Hyderabad: As Smart Cities Mission is completing three years this June 2018, Smart Cities Council India, part of the global consortium of...
Article - 03/16/2018
Active Region(s): India