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Scroll down for quick news takes from Smart Cities Council partners.IBM's cloud data center for the U.S. ArmyCouncil Lead Partner will build a $62 million cloud data center at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The project is the initial...
Article - 02/16/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Computing resources
We frequently recommend that cities partner with the technology companies that can best help them with planning and deploying their smart city projects. The cities benefit from technology and other resources they likely couldn't develop (or afford)...
Article - 07/26/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Computing resources
Public stadiums are a huge investment. Is your city getting its money’s worth? If you want a better return from your stadium investments, study the three approaches below and follow the links to more information. These are ideas you can take to the...
Article - 03/18/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Analytics, Computing resources
China has been taking smart cities seriously for years and is following an ambitious strategy to build them throughout the country. It doesn't have much choice. China's population of about 1.4 billion is expected to roughly double in 15 years, and...
Article - 03/11/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Computing resources
Tear down city silos! That’s usually the first piece of advice city leaders get when they launch efforts to make their cities smarter. Integration and cohesiveness is at the heart of every smart city. So how do you make that happen?Two Council...
Article - 12/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Computing resources, Interoperability
Malaysia's Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) has proposed to invest $ 30 billion in two urban development and housing projects in India, as per a statement from the Ministry of Urban Development.Malaysia's Minister of Works, Haji...
Article - 10/16/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Waste management, Computing resources, Financing and procurement tools
(Image source: Sany India website)China's construction equipment major, also the sixth largest heavy equipment manufacturer in the world, has committed to invest up to $ 5 billion in India.A delegation of Sany group and Chinese businessmen led by...
Article - 10/16/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Energy, Computing resources
(L-R) Pratap Padode, Founder & Director, Smart Cities Council India; Kalyani Patil, Mayor, KDMC; E Ravendiran, Commissioner, KDMC; Apeksha Patil, Mayor, Ulhasnagar Municipal corporation; Praful Shah, President, MCHI-Kalyan DombiviliSmart Cities...
Article - 08/28/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
"CRG doesn't build one-off applications such as standalone parking apps that don't connect to anything else ... and inevitably become stale," explained Dr. Gregory G. Curtin in announcing Civic Resource Group International's new CivicConnect™...
Article - 08/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity
Imagine a day where people could instantly harness and interact with the abundance of data around them. What if a bus stop became a source of real-time departure updates? Or if a pothole on your walk to work became a platform for good citizen...
Article - 07/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity
Virtual buildings inspections are relatively new but the technology looks promising -- promising enough for San Bernadino County's Building and Safety Division of the Land Use Services Department to take it out for a spin."Using technology to make...
Article - 05/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Computing resources, Connectivity
At a time when budgets are tight and urban populations are growing, city planners and developers don't have the luxury of taking on major projects and simply hoping for the best outcome. Fortunately, new tools are continually being developed to take...
Article - 05/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Computing resources, Connectivity, Smart City Tools
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
InformationWeek this week announced its Elite 100, an annual ranking of the most innovative users of technology. While many of the winners are businesses — FedEx, for example, won for using text messages to see if someone is home before it tries to...
Article - 05/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
A National Geographic series on smart cities will showcase San Diego in an hour-long documentary scheduled to start airing on the National Geographic Channel in 60 countries beginning April 25. A Times of San Diego report says the documentary "...
Article - 04/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity
There’s no doubt that 3D printers are closer than ever to becoming mainstream. As the printers drop in size and price, people are now using them in ways that would have been obscenely wasteful just a few years ago, such as making their own action...
Article - 01/30/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Computing resources
When it comes to wasting energy, offices are among the biggest offenders. Just look around city hall or other public facilities for examples. Between lighting conference rooms no one is using and air conditioning offices where no one is working, a...
Article - 01/02/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Computing resources, Connectivity
A London based property company is on a mission to find the next smart city and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Canary Wharf Group announced this week it is putting £300,000 into its Cognicity Challenge – a series of themed international...
Article - 10/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity
Technology gadgets that help the vision impaired navigate unfamiliar spaces and environmental watchdogs sniff out sources of pollution are among the ideas swirling around a break-through computer chip developed by Council Lead Partner IBM.Called...
Article - 09/10/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Computing resources
Developers working on Saudi Arabia’s next smart cities are also getting smart about the construction of them. The same mobile technologies that help the smart cities operate are also helping to make development easier and at less cost.They’re...
Article - 09/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Built environment, Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control