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Surat, being the centre of opportunities for laborers and investors, has attracted migrants from nearby rural areas and cities. This has increasing the demand for intra-city transportation. In the year 2006, Surat Municipal Corporation’s (SMC)...
Article - 07/21/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Transportation, The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Interoperability
Slowly but surely, the walls are coming down between silos to allow cross-cutting solutions. Slowly but surely, companies are moving those solutions into the cloud, where they can grow as big and as fast as needed. You'll see both of these trends...
Article - 06/08/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Instrumentation and control, Interoperability
Travelling in urban India is very stressful, because of the heavy traffic, bad roads, lack of timely public transport service, wrongful parking, unnecessary honking, pollution, erratic motorists driving and so on and so forth. The reasons can be...
Article - 09/26/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Transportation, Interoperability, Smart City Tools
London and Bangkok are at the top of MasterCard’s latest Global Destinations Cities Index. Just like last year, the year before that and the year before that. In fact, they’ve always topped the list. But instead of stopping there, the annual ranking...
Article - 06/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Payments, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Interoperability, Policy and leadership
When cities ask me to boil down my advice to a word or two, I often answer "multi-purpose." Cities need to leverage their investments so they buy once and use many times. This is true for their physical infrastructure. And it is true for their...
Article - 03/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Interoperability
Q&A with Rob McGreevy, VP Platform and Applications, Software SolutionsRob McGreevy has always had an interest in automation. As a student at the University of Iowa, he liked to experiment with early home automation products. He then took a part...
Article - 02/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control, Interoperability
The organizations building smart city platforms continue to proliferate in both the private and public sectors. One of the most intriguing is a collaboration between European and Japanese companies, cities and research institutions. Their goal is...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Interoperability
By Jesse BerstThe smart cities market took a major step towards mainstream status with an announcement this morning from Smart Cities Council Lead Partner Microsoft. The company is launching a global initiative labeled "CityNext." The company-wide...
Article - 07/09/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Interoperability