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The Slovak capital of Bratislava has already introduced a slew of smart technology pilot projects such as solar benches that charge mobile phones and offer Wi-Fi, but despite all of its smart city advances, Bratislava still falls behind the other...
Article - 09/28/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Energy
Back in 2013, smart lighting wasn’t a mainstream topic like it is today. The historic city of Helmond in North Brabant in the southern Netherlands, however, was one of the first cities to adopt intelligent lighting technology as a way to solve its...
Article - 09/28/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Energy, Connectivity
The Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority has mapped nearly 4,500 of the 16,000 projects registered with it under the Geographical Information System (GIS), enabling citizens find minute details of homes of their choice just by selecting the...
Article - 09/28/2018
Active Region(s): India
As urban areas are getting more crowded and falling increasingly short on future development potential, development of new self-sustaining cities are emerging as an alternate solution to these problems. Technology is at the heart of these new self-...
Article - 09/28/2018
Active Region(s): India
Open data, data that is made public, is valuable for cities internally because it enables different departments to share information conveniently and quickly among themselves. And it also can be a valuable resource for the community. New York City...
Article - 09/28/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Data management
Enterprise networks are getting bigger, and more complex as they grow. The responses to a survey of IT and telecommunications leaders conducted by Council Global Lead Partner Cisco yielded some very serious concerns — and hope that a solution would...
Article - 09/28/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Security and privacy
Water scarcity is undoubtedly one of the key issues facing the world today. Research published last year in Science Advances concluded that four billion people worldwide (two-thirds of the global population) are affected by severe water scarcity for...
Article - 09/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
Technology is disrupting different industries across the world, and real estate cannot be far behind. Already, real estate consultants have moved beyond the traditional ways of prospecting, with the Internet opening up the market in unprecedented...
Article - 09/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
Singapore's 'One Nation' Initiative and its position as a city-state makes it unique in its ability to execute its smart city vision. Its transformation, over the remarkably short time after its split from Malaysia, to the world's leading smart city...
Article - 09/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
Fast download speeds are just the start, as the fifth-generation wireless network fast-tracks the “smart city”. As drone deliveries and driverless cars, remote surgeries and automated factories take off, what does 5G mean for property?“5G is a big...
Article - 09/25/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
There’s a tried-and-tested formula for any company wanting to seize the lead in the smart cities race: equal parts vision, nerve and old-fashioned hard work.How do I know this? Because I watched the market leaders surge ahead in the sustainability...
Article - 09/25/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Europe’s third-smallest state, San Marino, is poised to be the first in the continent to roll out a 5G network. The 61-square-kilometer microstate, encompassed by Italy, will serve as a living lab for the network’s services, launching public safety...
Article - 09/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Telecommunications
For the first time in India, the construction of the D-wall for an underground metro station was accomplished by the overcut method using a hydromill, conventionally used for irrigation projects.Chennai’s urbanscape will be transformed when one of...
Article - 09/21/2018
Active Region(s): India
After once-in-a-century rainfall in Kerala, CW looks into what could have led to the disaster that ensued, and what has this resulted into.In 2013, floods and landslides devastated the northern state of Uttarakhand. The build-up of sediment in...
Article - 09/21/2018
Active Region(s): India
By setting up state-of-the-art Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) to make sure that every drop of waste water is treated and reused for purposes other than drinking, Surat is truly setting up an example on water management for every city and nation.In...
Article - 09/21/2018
Active Region(s): India
Photo credit: City of Las VegasThey're referred to as autonomous vehicles, self-driving vehicles, AVs and driverless vehicles. What they are is a combination of technologies and connectivity that enable them to drive safely and efficiently on city...
Article - 09/20/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Transportation
One of the best ways to see what’s happening in cities is to look at the projects they are planning and implementing. Our monthly Inside Look series does just that. It’s compiled by GovWin+Onvia from Deltek. — Kevin EbiHere are 10 smart city...
Article - 09/20/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Finance and procurement
LiDAR solutions is on its way to revolutionise Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS). LiDAR, a technology that uses beams of laser light to detect objects and measure distances, has played a pivotal role in the development of self-driving vehicles. This...
Article - 09/20/2018
Active Region(s): India
Jaipur has bagged the third position in the list of the world’s top 10 Smart Renewable Cities (SRCs), with Bengaluru being ranked sixth. While America’s San Diego topped the list, Paris was ranked at the bottom.“Jaipur is a nationally-driven SRC....
Article - 09/20/2018
Active Region(s): India
Climate change has caused intense heat waves, hurricanes and cataclysmic destruction in several parts of the world. Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico a year ago claiming almost 3,000 lives and causing roughly $90 billion in damages. In many...
Article - 09/20/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy
The devastating 2011 earthquake in Christchurch took 185 lives, resulted in the demolition of 1,300-plus buildings, destroyed many homes and delivered a $40 billion hit to the New Zealand economy.In the years since, Christchurch has been future-...
Article - 09/17/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
In order to set up the International Centre for Transformative Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) model for developing and deploying AI-led application-based research projects, NITI Aayog, Intel and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) has...
Article - 09/14/2018
Active Region(s): India
Andhra Pradesh has deployed world’s largest lithium-ion Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) solution. The UPS system was deployed by Consul Neowatt. According to the company, these UPS systems provide a battery backup when the electrical power fails or...
Article - 09/14/2018
Active Region(s): India
CV Jawahar, a computer vision scientist along with his team at IIIT- Hyderabad, readied the world’s first public dataset of Indian driving conditions. This dataset not only aims to help the computer vision researchers from across the world to train...
Article - 09/14/2018
Active Region(s): India
In India, getting official documents is definitely not an easy process. Not only it involves a lot of paperwork but one needs to manage to cross the prolonged level of hierarchies that consists of bureaucracy, different identification processes, etc...
Article - 09/14/2018
Active Region(s): India
Calling all Smart Cities startups!If you have a startup focused on improving communities, apply to pitch your solution at Smart Cities Week Australia, 29-31 October in Sydney. Over two sessions on October 30 and 31, selected startups will...
Article - 09/14/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
We were in Louisville, KY, this week — one of the winners of our 2018 Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge. In nearly every city we go, public safety is one of the key focus areas. It makes sense. Safety is one of the key services that cities...
Article - 09/14/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation, Citizen engagement
Scroll down for quick news takes and developments involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Enel to co-develop South Australia solar farm Council Global Lead Partner subsidiary Enel Green Power Australia has been awarded a 15-year support agreement to...
Article - 09/14/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Transportation
Ride-hailing services are one example of how urban transportation is changing. Their rapid growth is easy to understand. The people who use them like the convenience of being able to summon a ride on-demand with a smart phone app. There's also a...
Article - 09/13/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Transportation
Ten medium-sized European cities—including Bruges, Delft and Mechelen—have partnered up with Cambridge Cleantech to develop solutions for urban environment challenges revolving around one main concept: open data. The multi-million-euro project will...
Article - 09/13/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Data management
In today’s world, communication via social media is sometimes even preferred over a standard phone call, as people share everything from life updates to photos via platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Social media is one easy, cost-...
Article - 09/13/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
At the Bengaluru airport, soon your face will be your boarding pass. The airport is set to become the first airport in India to have an end-to-end solution for paperless air travel.The Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), operators of the...
Article - 09/11/2018
Active Region(s): India
In eastern France, Dijon is looking to step up its smart city game by getting its neighbours involved. The French city is joining forces with surrounding towns to embark on a €105 million information technology project that will improve city...
Article - 09/09/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Built environment, Energy, Telecommunications, Connectivity
Scrapped e-waste, which often lands next to river beds in India polluting both the land and water bodies, can be used as a raw material to create daily use products. All thanks to Indian-origin professor Veena Sahajwalla! She is developing world’s...
Article - 09/07/2018
Active Region(s): India
A systematic approach to deal effectively with the solid wastes is lacking in most of the Indian cities. According to data presented by the government, about 24 per cent of the solid waste generated in the country was being processed as on January...
Article - 09/07/2018
Active Region(s): India
Industries such as energy, telecommunications and water and wastewater have a common problem. Their workforces are retiring at an alarming rate and replacements for those skilled employees are increasingly hard to find. The College of the Canyons (...
Article - 09/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Water and wastewater
Food rescue and recovery programs aren't new. We've reported on their strategies and technologies they use before. The benefits to keeping food that restaurants, stores and others can't use out of landfills are numerous: feeding the hungry, reducing...
Article - 09/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Wellness, Economic development, Citizen engagement
Pick 10 Americans at random and you’ll find that at least one of them doesn’t use the internet. The latest research from the Pew Research Center finds 11% of Americans don’t go online. There are some common traits among them. They tend to be older,...
Article - 09/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity
It has been an uphill climb for Kerala after the floods that ravaged the state, killed hundreds and left scores homeless. The state has slowly started returning to normal life, with the Cochin International Airport also resuming operations. But...
Article - 09/05/2018
Active Region(s): India
On the morning of January 31, 1953, the North Sea brew up a storm which would severely affect the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland. The prediction for the Netherlands looked worst. The Netherlands, literally means “lower countries”...
Article - 09/05/2018
Active Region(s): India