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World-leading technology companies have signed on as Council partners to guide city leaders SEATTLE – (May 29, 2013) – Cities around the world have a new ally in the fight to achieve prosperity and sustainability. More than a dozen top technology...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Policy and leadership
We always celebrate when an important company opens up its application programming interfaces (APIs) so they can be used by other developers. Or better yet (as in the example below) an entire software development kit (SDK). It is one half of the...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control, Smart City Tools
Grist is a publication that promises "environmental news, commentary, advice." They recently hired a standup comedian to compile a list of the 10 U.S. cities that will be hardest hit by climate change.Dig past the relentless one-liners and you'll...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Policy and leadership
Bristol is a city of just under half a million people in the southwest UK. Its city council has just joined a consortium to develop home sensor systems to improve the health and wellbeing of its citizens.When it comes to health and human services, I...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Health and human services, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
Gordon Feller is one of the smart city sector's premier thought leaders. Formerly CEO of the Urban Age Institute, he is now the Director of Urban Innovations at Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group. Cisco is a Smart Cities Council Lead Partner...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
It was IBM's Rich Michos who first enlightened me to the crucial role smart phones play in the smart city. As he explained in his interview about building a smarter planet one city at a time, smart phones are showing up everywhere on their own, in...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control
It's no longer news when a major city announces its intention to be a world leader in smart city services. But it is illuminating to drill down to see what those cities mean by that announcement. And, especially, what kind of smart city applications...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
Everywhere I go I ask about the obstacles to smart city progress and the best ways to overcome them. If I had to pick a single roadblock that is named most often, I would choose "making the business case." The industry is still not doing a good job...
Article - 05/21/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership, Research, publications and web sites
We recently interviewed Alstom smart grid chief Laurent Schmitt. He revealed that partnerships with local universities are part of Alstom's secret sauce.Now we have this article from The Guardian that drills down a little further into the science of...
Article - 05/21/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Smart Cities Council Advisory Board member Architecture 2030 has gone into beta testing of its new tool to help cities "successfully adapt to climatic changes." The tool provides guiding principles for all aspects of urban planning, from region to...
Article - 05/21/2013
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Energy, Smart City Tools
If you have been following the progress of urban transformation over the past few years, then you have undoubtedly encountered the story of Zappos.com and its plan to renew Las Vegas old downtown area.Many publications have documented the project,...
Article - 05/21/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Health and human services, Finance and procurement, Examples and case studies
By most accounts, China has more smart city projects than any other region. Even so, many Westerners assume that the U.S. and Europe will be the leaders in digital government and e-services. Here's a story from China Daily that suggests otherwise...
Article - 05/21/2013
Active Region(s): Main, China, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
A coalition of global cities has combed through 2,500 smart city apps and 456 semi-finalists to choose 23 winners. Many of them are city-scale solutions, such as the proposal to offer free WiFi in the public areas of Lagos. But many are "lightweight...
Article - 05/21/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Telecommunications, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
By Jesse Berst Chairman, Smart Cities CouncilI come from the smart grid industry, where I saw both vendors and utilities act very dumb about the right ways to introduce smart technology. Many of them took a top-down approach, imposing new technology...
Article - 05/20/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Definitions and overviews, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Three things to note as you review this latest smart mobility success story from IBM:1. Most observers think transportation is the single biggest growth sector in smart cities. The pain is so immediate. The frustration is so high. As a result,...
Article - 05/18/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control
We told you recently about Hitachi's Ropits, one of several approaches to the idea of autonomous vehicles capable of reducing accidents and easing traffic congestion. Now comes a study from Cisco suggesting a majority of consumers surveyed are ...
Article - 05/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control
What's important in the story below isn't so much the $100 million the Rockefeller Foundation has pledged to support urban resilience – that won't go very far if the goal is infrastructure upgrades in 100 cities. What the Foundation brings to the...
Article - 05/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Finance and procurement
Even with bike-friendly initiatives popping up all over the U.S., we continue to lag behind Europe when it comes to encouraging bike riding as a serious alternative to cars. But if you scroll down toward the end of this story, you'll understand why...
Article - 05/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
City residents need certain essential services for their health, happiness and prosperity. At Smart Cities Council we call those services Responsibilities, since the city has a responsibility to ensure that residents have access. Perhaps one of the...
Article - 05/12/2013
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Health and human services, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership, Examples and case studies
As population in Pakistan increases the demand for electricity is growing rapidly – by some reports the country's energy consumption has spiked by almost 80% in the last 15 years. And Pakistan is not alone; according to the World Energy Outlook 2012...
Article - 05/12/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Data management