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Scroll down for quick news takes and developments involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Continental signs on to develop connected EVs in ChinaCouncil Global Lead Partner Continental will work with China's Didi Chuxing to develop connected electric...
Article - 07/12/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Security and privacy
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
Running an island is hard work. Sure, some like Ibiza thrive as vacation destinations and profit from tourism, but due to their insularity, many are heavily dependent on energy—especially fossil fuels. Islands are also faced with the challenge of...
Article - 11/29/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Energy, Transportation, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
Malta's capital aims to be a carbon-neutral city by 2030. Following in the footsteps of other successful areas that are part of the Smart Sustainable Districts programme (such as Moabit West in Berlin and Les Docks de Saint-Ouen in Paris), Valletta...
Article - 11/22/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
As ACCANZ continues its collaboration with the Internet of Things Alliance Australia, we learn more every day on the variety of applications emerging across local government, and university campuses, to name a few. Senors and actuators are being...
Article - 04/25/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
It's the reality so many cities know all too well. Urban populations are growing and that means more people depending on them for essential city services, whether it's mass transit, public safety, energy, water or the other services that make cities...
Article - 11/22/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Public safety and security, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
Huawei picked to help Malaysia become ICT hub (and a smart country)Council Associate Partner Huawei will provide several services for the Malaysian government, including helping the country become an ICT hub by providing the connectivity and...
Article - 03/25/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
Council Lead Partner Itron's OpenWay Riva communications platform promises quite a lot: interoperability, distributed intelligence and more -- in one unified multi-service network -- for smart cities and electric and water utilities.As Simon Pontin...
Article - 02/12/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity
Male, capital of MaldivesScroll down for short takes from Council partners…Ooredoo launches smart city plan to enrich lives in MaldivesAs part of the initiative, Council Lead Partner Ooredoo introduced Ooredoo Wi-Fi Hangout Areas across prime spots...
Article - 09/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…GE's big battery energy storage project dubbed a "game changer"Council Lead Partner GE will provide a 30-MW battery energy storage system as part of Coachella Energy Storage Partners' supply contract...
Article - 08/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
Many electric utility and water utility operations are very similar. However, the outage management systems (OMS) electric utilities use to manage information and speed outage restoration are almost unheard of in the water utility industry. Council...
Article - 07/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Read the announcement below with care, since it encapsulates at least three important smart city trends.The first is the growing desire by cities for a smart city (pick your buzzword of choice) "framework" or "platform" or "foundation." Cities no...
Article - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
From improving healthcare and agricultural yields to meeting energy and water needs as urban populations soar, Intel is on a mission to bring bright minds together to find solutions. The latest examples: a big data analytics lab near Paris and an...
Article - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity
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…Civic Resource Group joins Microsoft CityNext Associate SCC Partner Civic Resource Group International (CRG) is partnering with the Microsoft CityNext initiative, the technology giant’s effort to...
Article - 05/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Cubic tapped to roll out intelligent transport in Manchester, UKCubic Transportation Systems, a Council Lead Partner, was chosen to deliver Transport for Greater Manchester’s (TfGM) new Optimized...
Article - 05/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Good reads department: IBM on Johannesburg as "a model of urban renewal" Writing for Forbes, IBM Chief Storyteller Steve Hamm puts the spotlight on Johannesburg, South Africa – in particular what he...
Article - 04/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Interoperability
Scroll down for short takes from Council partnersQualcomm, AMC Health team to improve care for at-risk patientsQualcomm Life, a subsidiary of Council Lead Partner Qualcomm, announced a collaboration with AMC Health, a privately held provider of real...
Article - 03/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for a peek at recent developments involving Council Partners…Alstom pact targets smart, energy efficient homesCouncil Lead Partner Alstom Grid will work with IJENKO, a European company that provides a cloud platform for Internet of...
Article - 01/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Computing resources, Connectivity
A professor at Lancaster University in the UK has won £171,495 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to lead a study of how the Internet of Things (IoT) can benefit problems from flooding and agricultural pollution to animal...
Article - 12/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Research, publications and web sites