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The main goal for a Smart Sustainable City is to enhance the quality of life of the citizens across multiple, interrelated dimensions, including the provision and access to water resources, energy, transportation and mobility, education, environment...
Resources - 10/30/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Telecommunications, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management, Interoperability, Policy frameworks and tools
Odense Municipality in Denmark wanted a way to streamline its governmental organization and replace an outdated email solution. The city needed a platform for communicating and collaborating that was easy and intuitive for both users and...
Resources - 08/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
With more than 4 billion people in the world lacking Internet access, Mawingu hopes to provide a solution. Watch in this video from Council Lead Partner Microsoft how the company uses TV white space, or the gaps in between TV channels, to deliver...
Resources - 08/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity
If you could invent anything with the tech in front of you, what would you invent? This video describes how two teams, in five days had the chance to invent something that could change the world. The event was the Why Wait Invent-Off powered by...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity
A common challenge for utilities today -- and other industries as well -- is how to adapt their current operations to address the shifting generational workforce as baby boomers retire. In the commentary linked below, Mike Varney, Senior Director of...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Computing resources, Connectivity
Hisashi Fukuda, General Manager of Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation, discusses how OSIsoft’s PI System has enabled Itochu to use data-driven approaches to deliver services across Japan’s dynamic energy market. He also details how Council...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Computing resources, Connectivity
The Vinnytsia City Council is committed to openness and has made it simpler and easier for its citizens to access administrative services online. Using Microsoft Office tools such as Sharepoint, Exchange and Lync, from Council Lead Partner Microsoft...
Resources - 07/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity
Corporate Review interviews Imex Systems CEO Damodar Arapakota and Aldis Levalds, Director of Business Development, on the company's next-generation smart government technologies that help cities optimize and automate processes for more efficient...
Resources - 07/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity
Hospitals are under enormous pressure to keep their costs down and improve the bottom line. They’re looking for ways to achieve greater operating efficiency to reduce costs. The “smart” bedside terminal can address most of these challenges. This all...
Resources - 06/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Bit Stew Systems how its revolutionary information processing engine, MIx Core™, enables complex event processing, advanced analytics and sophisticated machine intelligence for utilities and the...
Resources - 06/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
This video explains how CivicConnect™ Mobile from Council Associate Partner Civic Resource Group International enables rapid deployment of dynamic mobile websites and applications for smart government on the go.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity
Energy generation is rapidly becoming more decentralized, and it's time to rethink the way it's managed. Learn more in this brief video from Council Associate Partner West Monroe Partners how to manage all assets connected to the grid. Connect-the-...
Resources - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Computing resources, Connectivity
Thousands of manufacturers, energy companies, and utilities rely on the PI System from Council Associate Partner OSIsoft to collect, analyze and share real-time sensor data to build their mission-critical operations intelligence infrastructure. One...
Resources - 05/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Roads simply cannot expand infinitely to keep pace with growth in traffic volumes. Traffic congestion and easing excess traffic on key roads can be seen as a flow problem. This video introduces SMIDER, a cloud-based road traffic automation solution.
Resources - 05/07/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
The safety of both officers and citizens depends on real-time situational awareness and immediate contact with colleagues and support personnel. Learn in this case study linked below how Council Lead Partner Verizon worked with Charleston, S.C. to...
Resources - 05/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management, Examples and case studies
The city of tomorrow is a city of information. Smart cities are greener, safer, faster and friendlier. Watch this video to learn how Council Lead Partner Verizon has been helping to transform cities into smarter cities for more than a decade.
Resources - 05/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity
Learn how Sacramento Municipal Utility District is using situational intelligence applications to increase grid reliability and integrate new energy technologies such as wind and solar power, electric vehicles, energy storage and demand response in...
Resources - 04/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
Cambridgeshire Constabulary’s officers depended on paper-based notes that created an inefficient administrative burden and siloed important information. Read in the case study linked below from Council Associate Partner Intel how a new app and...
Resources - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity
The CivicConnect™ Water Conservation and Drought Management Platform from Council Associate Partner Civic Resource Group International is a comprehensive cloud-based online water conservation/management system designed, as this video explains, to...
Resources - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Computing resources, Connectivity
When Kanaiwa Hospital in Kanazawa, Japan, decided to introduce a comprehensive electronic health records system, it needed a smooth transition from its old paper record-keeping as well as a "non-stop" network to support the new system. In the case...
Resources - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies