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The first smart city initiatives were launched more than a decade ago, with technology companies blazing the trail. Major global tech firms, industrial giants, and telecoms have become providers of smart city systems and services. The roster has...
Article - 06/29/2018
Active Region(s): India
‘Everyone wins’ with Smart Cities Project Activator, a new Smart Cities Council and Tr3Dent collaboration that accelerates project scoping and financing.Washington, DC June 28th, 2018 — At the Enterprise Ireland IoT & Smart Cities Forum this...
Article - 06/28/2018
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America
A smart city is not automatically an equitable city unless its leaders take care to make it so. Some critics assert that the entire push to make cities smart is mainly about making life more convenient for the affluent. Young and digital-savvy...
Article - 06/28/2018
Active Region(s): India
In 2011, Moscow confronted a crisis: its roads had reached capacity, leading to some of the worst gridlock in the world. In response, the city government developed a comprehensive transportation plan. Its strategy for future construction projects to...
Article - 06/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
As urbanization, industrialization, and consumption grow, environmental pressures multiply. While technology is only one option for addressing these issues, it can be a powerful one. Overall, analysis finds that deploying a range of applications to...
Article - 06/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
After a decade of experimentation, smart cities are entering a new phase. Although they are only one part of the full tool kit for making a city great, digital solutions are the most powerful and cost-effective additions to that tool kit in many...
Article - 06/25/2018
Active Region(s): India
Cities that have evolved organically over centuries or even millennia can be challenging to retrofit with technology. Urban planning mistakes of the past, such as sprawl, may be deeply rooted, and creaky legacy infrastructure is hard to overhaul....
Article - 06/21/2018
Active Region(s): India
A recent report by McKinsey Global Institute gauged each city’s progress in implementation using a checklist of current smart applications to see how many have been rolled out. The reports use a weighted composite of city-wide implementation as well...
Article - 06/21/2018
Active Region(s): India
Tens of millions of people in cities as diverse as Jakarta, Bengaluru, Rio, Nairobi, Seoul, and Atlanta begin and end every workday fuming in traffic or piling onto overcrowded buses and trains. Improving the daily commute is critical to the quality...
Article - 06/21/2018
Active Region(s): India
Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company, has become the first power utility to enable online, automated bill payments using e-NACH (Electronic National Automated Clearing House). IDFC Bank is a technology partner and a settlement banker...
Article - 06/20/2018
Active Region(s): India
The Pune-Mumbai hyperloop project has now reached the midpoint of the in-depth feasibility study, which is on track to finish this summer. Recently, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, and representatives from the State Government...
Article - 06/18/2018
Active Region(s): India
When we imagine the possibilities for solar power, we might well see it as the bedrock of a future 100 per cent renewables-powered grid - harnessing the abundance of energy beamed down on us daily, to give 100 per cent reliability of supply and...
Article - 06/15/2018
Active Region(s): India
Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s first integrated greenfield smart city project at Naya Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh. Schneider Electric, the global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and...
Article - 06/15/2018
Active Region(s): India
More than half of India’s population is engaged in farming but the sector contributes just 16 per cent to the country’s GDP. For this, Niti Aayog has partnered with IBM to develop a crop yield prediction model and provide real-time advice to farmers...
Article - 06/13/2018
Active Region(s): India
Dehradun’s area based development (ABD) envisions to retrofit and redevelop 875 acres centered on CBD of Dehradun and transform into a light-house for the city and to showcase as a smart neighborhood. A Delhi-based consultant, Rudrabhishek...
Article - 06/13/2018
Active Region(s): India
In an attempt to digitise air travel, the Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, also known as Varanasi Airport, will have an automated smart facial recognition system, ensuring hassle-free movement of travellers from entry to boarding points....
Article - 06/13/2018
Active Region(s): India
Being an industrial city, turning Pimpri Chinchwad into a smart city is a tough job. It requires a long-term vision, on which the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is presently working on. The PCMC is in the process of designing the...
Article - 06/08/2018
Active Region(s): India
Naya Raipur is being developed as a sustainable, modern ‘green city’ with major eco-development projects such as rainwater harvesting, solar energy and Internet connectivity. Compulsory installation of rainwater harvesting systems on all buildings...
Article - 06/08/2018
Active Region(s): India
Google has claimed to reach its target of 400 free Wi-fi enabled stations in India. Dibrugarh railway station in Assam is the 400th train station in India to be powered by public Wi-Fi.Wi-Fi in these stations comes from a journey that Indian...
Article - 06/08/2018
Active Region(s): India
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
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