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A Chicago-based consortium is tapping the brainpower of Microsoft, Siemens and other industry leaders to turn the city into a big urban lab for developing and testing solutions to infrastructure challenges.CityWorks is a project of UI Labs, which is...
Article - 03/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity
Many cities have smartphone apps that residents and visitors can use to check how restaurants have fared during health inspections. Visit the Smart Cities Apps Gallery for examples like Sac Food, which diners in the Sacramento, CA area can use to...
Article - 03/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
The World Economic Forum's Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies is out with its list of the top 10 emerging technologies of 2015 and it's fascinating -- from flying robots that check power lines or deliver emergency aid to a new kind of plastic...
Article - 03/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Transportation, Waste management, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
In Lubbock County, Texas, word has it a new online jury reporting system is living up to its potential. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports that not only does online reporting save would-be jurors time, it is increasing response rates to jury...
Article - 03/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
A city in southwest England will soon be covered by a wireless umbrella designed to connect everything, allowing enterprising researchers to find new uses for the data that’s generated. The goal is to turn the city of Bristol into a hotbed of smart...
Article - 03/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Interoperability, SCC Spotlight Cities
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Carnegie Melon, IBM partner on new cloud-based analytics for smarter buildingsCarnegie Mellon University (CMU) is the first higher education institution to pioneer use of a new cloud-based analytics...
Article - 03/06/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Waste management, Analytics, Connectivity
It’s a frustration that anybody who has driven in even a moderately sized city knows: the pain of trying to find a place to park. But it’s not just a frustration for the person trying to park; it’s also a significant cause of traffic congestion....
Article - 03/06/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Transportation, Analytics
A new effort named Espresso is designed to perk up the business of transmitting data over power lines. Council Lead Partner Enel is leading the effort, which enlists researchers, government agencies and other companies to find ways to turn...
Article - 03/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
The ability to collect and analyze location information can open a treasure trove of insights that smart cities can use to make their communities more livable. For cities that haven’t already started using this data, a new white paper can help them...
Article - 03/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management, Interoperability
Gregory Curtin, founder and CEO of Council Associate Partner Civic Resource Group International, talks about fulfilling the promise of technology in this new mobile/cloud/data first world.
Resources - 03/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
Cities around the globe are confronted with growing populations, aging infrastructure, reduced budgets and the challenge of doing more with less. Watch in this video how IBM Intelligent Operations software portfolio, based on open cloud...
Resources - 03/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources
The Norfolk County Council (NCC) will utilize a cloud-based information hub to transform the delivery of integrated public services in Norfolk, with the goal of driving efficiencies through smart use of technology and multi-agency collaboration....
Resources - 03/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity