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Minneapolis is on a mission. Officials in Minnesota's largest city are tracking more than 1,250 metrics and key performance indicators. The reason? To make sure the city is keeping pace with its goals and the expectations of its citizens.From...
Article - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council Partners…Itron wins Bangladesh contract: Itron will supply 8,600 prepaid gas meters to the national utility of Bangladesh, Titus Gas Transmission and Distribution Co. According to a report at metering.com,...
Article - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Joel Cherkis, GM of Microsoft's Worldwide Government team, notes in a recent blog post that there are a lot of ways cities can address the challenges of urbanization. But what he hears from city leaders is there aren't a lot of options to pay for...
Article - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Finance and procurement
The smart folks at ProgrammableWeb published an excellent primer detailing why and how smart cities are opening up public transport data so developers can create useful tools that enhance city living. As author Mark Boyd explains, "Public transport...
Article - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Data management
An effort launched this week by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) wants to get city leaders from the U.S. and abroad to identify standardization priorities for smart and sustainable cities. The Smart Cities Council is a founding...
Article - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Interoperability, Policy and leadership
Qualcomm – a Council Global Partner -- is teaming with the global nonprofit Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) on a 3G mobile health program that aims to empower women factory workers in China to better manage and improve their reproductive...
Article - 05/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Connectivity
China's embrace of the car culture has taken a toll on more than just air quality, which by any number of reports is notoriously bad. A story on Quartz indicates underground parking spaces for apartment dwellers in some areas of Beijing are selling...
Article - 05/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Policy and leadership
Reprinted with permission from Smart Grid News...It sometimes takes a crisis to get people thinking seriously about smart water networks. And California certainly has a crisis on its hands in terms of its historic drought. See below how San...
Article - 05/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Approaches to financing infrastructure projects vary around the world, so it's always useful to see what's working elsewhere.An interesting glimpse at a financing tool being used successfully in Latin America comes from Folha de S.Paulo columnist...
Article - 05/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Finance and procurement
Let’s say a caustic gas leak occurs in an office building when a contractor inadvertently cuts the wrong pipe in the ventilation system. A 911 call is placed and the city’s first responders quickly show up on the scene.But how can the city ensure...
Article - 05/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Public safety and security
Scroll down for short takes from Council Partners…Enel's big PV move in Chile: The utility giant's renewables division started construction on two photovoltaic (PV) plants in northern Chile. The Lalackama plant, with an installed capacity of 60 MW,...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Cisco and Streetline jointly developed a first-of-its-kind camera-based parking spot detection solution that can work in conjunction with or in lieu of in-ground sensors.While in-ground sensors are highly effective for detecting vehicles in...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
A lot of folks in the U.S. will take to highways and byways this Memorial Day weekend. Elsewhere the upcoming summer vacation season will have the same effect. Will travelers be stopping in your city? Do you make it easy for them to find their way...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Connectivity
As the Council's Smart Cities Readiness Guide points out, it's one thing for a city to deploy smart infrastructure. But a smart city also needs highly trained workers in both the public and private sector to operate that infrastructure. And skilled...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Policy and leadership
Is it possible to create a better bus system without incurring higher operating costs? Transit planners in Houston are out to prove you can.Houston Metro, burdened with a transit system devised in the 1970s, has proposed an extensive makeover of the...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement
Power outages are costly – even those brief blips when the lights flicker momentarily. S&C Electric VP Mike Edmonds suggests what may seem like a momentary nuisance to most of us can cost the U.S. economy $52 billion each year.How? Here are his...
Article - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Crowd-funding isn't anything new – everything from college tuition to movies have been successfully funded by friends, family and strangers who donate to the cause online.But the practice of paying for civic improvements via crowd-funding does seem...
Article - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Finance and procurement
HandUp, a young San Francisco company that uses crowd-funding to help the homeless, won top honors in the smart cities sector of the first annual Challenge Cup, a business competition hosted by Washington, D.C.-based startup hub 1776.Launched last...
Article - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Computing resources
An organization that promotes the benefits of compact and connected communities has published a report that ranks 221 metro areas on the amount of sprawl included in their development patterns.Council Advisor Smart Growth America just released ...
Article - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Transportation
Those tediously detailed documents called “ISO standards” set out requirements and technical specifications for everything from food packaging, to car ergonomics, to blood transfusion equipment. They help reassure consumers that products are safe,...
Article - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Interoperability