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Much has been written about India's quest to build 100 smart cities. This brief video from India's Ministry of External Affairs provides a high-level overview of India's plans to tranform its urban landscape and its diplomatic efforts to reach out...
Resources - 01/30/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Policy and leadership
The city of Las Vegas saves money and enables self-service among business users by leveraging Oracle BI Cloud Service. Raghav Venkat, senior systems analyst with the city of Las Vegas, describes how decision-making capabilities drastically improve...
Resources - 01/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
Street lights are ubiquitous in cities today. They light downtowns, parks and public gathering places. They light industrial centers and suburban malls. And they light residential neighborhoods. In fact, street lights stretch into almost every nook...
Resources - 01/29/2015
Active Region(s): North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment
This brief video is the first installment in a new ad campaign from Council Lead Partner Cisco showcasing how the Internet of Everything is ushering in many firsts, but its legacy will be measured in the lasts it creates - the last blackout, the...
Resources - 01/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity
Nagahama City, Japan, wanted to reduce ICT costs and simplify network operation and management. As part of an upgrade they planned to converge their information and digital telephony systems onto a single network. Read in this case study how...
Resources - 01/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Telecommunications, Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
A new infographic developed by the Smart Water Networks Forum (SWAN) -- a member of the Council's Advisory Board -- highlights the multiple benefits utilities and their customers gain by implementing smart technologies in water distribution networks.
Resources - 01/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
California’s utility companies are up against a 2020 deadline to produce one-third of the state’s electricity using renewable generation sources, and this is generating concern about the stability of the state’s electric grid. In a California desert...
Resources - 01/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
As one of Europe’s oldest cable operators, Melita delivers a seamless broadband service with Council Lead Partner Cisco’s Universal Wi-Fi, and together they are helping turn Malta into a smart island. Watch this video to learn more.
Resources - 01/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity
Today’s dynamic power distribution systems require a solution that provides utilities with the visibility and control needed to perform work, share information in real-time, respond to outages efficiently and safely, and optimize performance of...
Resources - 01/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Listen in as Laurent Schmitt of Alstom Grid, a Council Lead Partner, joins Gilles Rocchia of Socomec and Christine Pellen of RTE in a discussion of smart grid progress in France, where pilots and projects are getting citizens involved in smarter...
Resources - 01/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control
To meet greenhouse gas reduction goals, the city of Boston sought to reduce energy consumption through efficiencies and behavior change. Read in this case study how Boston leveraged Schneider Electric's StructureWare software for citywide energy,...
Resources - 01/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement
Leaders wanted to make Bilbao in Northern Spain a better place to live by promoting public transport, more efficient urban freight improvement, deployment of smart mobility services and by making traffic and mobility data available to citizens. Read...
Resources - 01/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Learn about the collaborative, multidisciplinary approach used in the 18-month smart city initiative in Hong Kong designed to tackle the management of waste, water, energy and air quality in this case study from Council Associate Partner Schneider...
Resources - 01/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Examples and case studies
Council Partners Schneider Electric, Cisco and Microsoft were among those whose expertise helped Spain's second largest city realize its vision of “a self-sufficient city" by leveraging smart technologies. Click the link below to learn more.
Resources - 01/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Examples and case studies
This is part one of a webinar series from Council Associate Partner Elster that gets under the hood of the Advanced Meter Fort Collins (AMFC) project, where the successful implementation of technology is integrating and leveraging AMI data to create...
Resources - 01/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control