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August 3, 2015—Clevest Solutions Inc., a leading provider of mobile workforce automation software, has announced that it has joined the Smart Cities Council as an Associate Partner. The Smart Cities Council is a coalition of industry thought leaders...
Article - 08/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
It typically isn’t easy to find money in the budget to put more police officers on the streets. But some police departments are finding a way to stretch their resources. They’re developing new camera networks that give their existing officers the...
Article - 08/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Council Lead Partner Verizon has just announced a cloud-based service that does away with the large capital requirements of a smart grid. Instead of building and operating a citywide communications network, a utility can now simply "rent" time on...
Article - 08/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Connectivity
With the U.S. Clean Power Plan now in full force, public officials will need a solid strategy for cutting greenhouse emissions by 32% from 2005 levels by 2030. According to the White House, the plan establishes the first-ever national standards to...
Article - 08/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Policy and leadership
As we age, we tend to get a little self-conscious about how we look. That’s also a bit true of Singapore, which is turning 50 this month. And it’s celebrating with a truly extreme makeover –- reinventing itself inside and out.The city state is going...
Article - 08/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Analytics, Examples and case studies
Schools, like cities, generally operate on tight budgets. So, how does a school efficiently and cost-effectively teach students at campuses miles apart?Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland had to deal with that question. Its local campuses are...
Article - 08/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Telecommunications, Computing resources, Connectivity
Members participate free of charge with many benefits, including:Access to news: Online publication, email newsletter, social media feedsAccess to information: Web portal, online library, presentations from past conferences, reduced fee for research...
Article - 08/03/2015
Active Region(s): India
IDC’s Smart Cities research practice focuses on the role of technology in improving citizen services, fostering innovation and civic engagement and building successful models for the evolution of a smart city. IDC’s global team of analysts provides...
Company Information - 08/19/2015
Active Region(s): Readiness Guide, North America, Compassionate Cities, RG Global
The Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC) based in Cary, North Carolina is an industry-funded, industry-led initiative of business, government, academic and nonprofit leaders focused on accelerating cleantech innovation and our cleantech...
Company Information - 08/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
The CORE Smart and Sustainable Cities program located at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is a network of scientific experts in areas related to the management of urban environments sustainably. Topics of interest in the network...
Company Information - 08/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
TM Forum's Smart City Global Network brings together the world’s leading smart cities, service providers, technology vendors and innovators to accelerate the deployment of smart city solutions to improve lives and sustainability. We act as the...
Company Information - 08/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association, advances policies that drive innovation and growth in the digital economy. CompTIA Advocacy supports policies that advance free and open competition, promotes a highly educated and technical...
Company Information - 08/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
Here is the list of Smart Cities released by the government today:
Resources - 08/28/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Information Center
When a California wind farm needed to greatly increase its production capacity to comply with the state’s renewable energy requirements, it turned to Council Lead Partner S&C Electric for help. S&C provided end-to-end project and...
Resources - 08/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy
This video from Skift, a travel industry intelligence and marketing publication, and Council Lead Partner MasterCard share how the city of Amsterdam is responding to a population boom brought about by its status as a progressive and central urban...
Resources - 08/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Policy frameworks and tools
Part of a series by travel industry marketing and intelligence publication Skift and Council Lead Partner MasterCard, this video depicts how Singapore is developing a Smart Nation Program to conveniently move people throughout the city and provide...
Resources - 08/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation
Cities everywhere are challenged by congestion, pollution, crime, aging infrastructure, falling budgets and many other issues. They need new strategies and new technologies to address those challenges.Certainly smart technologies are a solution. But...
Resources - 08/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Member Premium Resources, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership, Financing and procurement tools
Citizens today are demanding more accountability from their government. They want to see how their tax dollars are spent. They want to put a stop to waste and bloated bureaucracies. And they want their civil servants to be like the clerk at the...
Resources - 08/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Member Premium Resources, Smart City Concepts, Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
The Smart Cities Readiness Guide® is the first collaborative and comprehensive framework for a smart city, against which cities can assess their readiness to innovate – identifying a path, taking next steps and measuring their progress. The Guide is...
Resources - 08/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Member Premium Resources, Smart City Concepts, The SCC Readiness Guide
Using the PI System from Council Associate Partner OSIsoft, the Minnesota Wild Hockey Club now has unique insight into the operations within its arena. From monitoring ice conditions, to air temperature and humidity, to energy consumption...
Resources - 08/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Data management
When Arlington, Massachusetts Public Schools consolidated its summer school operations into one school building, officials were concerned about possible large increases in their power bill. They turned to Council Lead Partner Microsoft and adopted...
Resources - 08/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Computing resources
A massive urban growth boom is occurring throughout the world, forcing city leaders to grapple with stretching their resources and finding others to help cover the costs of critical development priorities. In this video moderator Arvind Satyam,...
Resources - 08/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Finance and procurement
Odense Municipality in Denmark wanted a way to streamline its governmental organization and replace an outdated email solution. The city needed a platform for communicating and collaborating that was easy and intuitive for both users and...
Resources - 08/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
With more than 4 billion people in the world lacking Internet access, Mawingu hopes to provide a solution. Watch in this video from Council Lead Partner Microsoft how the company uses TV white space, or the gaps in between TV channels, to deliver...
Resources - 08/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity
This year (2015) marks 100 years of Black & Veatch providing critical infrastructure solutions for clients around the world. Founded in 1915 by Ernest Bateman Black and Nathan Thomas Veatch with 12 employees, the company now provides energy,...
Resources - 08/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater
One of the biggest pain points during a visit to the mall is having to pay for parking. It's not the paying that's the problem; it's the inconvenience of having to pay using cash that is the real problem. Watch this video to learn about the...
Resources - 08/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Payments, Connectivity
This video highlights the Bristol Whales monument, designed to represent the beauty and fragility of our oceans and the increasing human threats that they face. Using 70,000 recycled plastic bottles, it was designed and built by Cod...
Resources - 08/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Waste management, Water and wastewater
One of the greatest challenges faced with Big Data analytics of sensor data is acquiring the sensor data in a scalable, reliable and consistent manner. This white paper from Gartner and Council Associate Partner OSIsoft discusses a strategic...
Resources - 08/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
In December 2014, a fire broke out at the Maldives Water and Sewerage Co. generator unit located on the island capital Malé, cutting off drinking water to over 150,000 people. Read in this case study how communications giant Ooredoo, a Council Lead...
Resources - 08/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
At a roundtable hosted by the Guardian, experts discussed how long it will take for all cities to become smart. In this video, Council Lead Partner Cisco's Rod Halstead, Capita's Catherine Howe, Innovate UK's Niraj Saraf and Sarah Gonsalves of...
Resources - 08/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts
Watch how Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas is using the Extricom Series wireless technology from Council Lead Partner Allied Telesis to connect tens of thousands of convention attendees seamlessly throughout one of the largest meeting...
Resources - 08/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Connectivity
Dan Girard of Council Lead Partner S&C Electric Co. and Ed Pinero of Associate Partner Veolia are among the experts in this Direct Energy video from ETS@Chicago discussing energy infrastructure in the Midwest, and the complex interactions...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy
If you could invent anything with the tech in front of you, what would you invent? This video describes how two teams, in five days had the chance to invent something that could change the world. The event was the Why Wait Invent-Off powered by...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity
This video explains how, with the help of IBM Watson, doctors are pioneering smarter medicine. Watson, developed by Council Lead Partner IBM, is helping doctors find hidden correlations across all types of data like medical history, genetics,...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Computing resources
How can a residential electric vehicle charger improve grid reliability, reduce emissions and support clean energy? In this paper, Dr. Valery Miftakhov explains how eMotorWerks uses the PI System from Council Associate Partner OSIsoft to enable "...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy
A common challenge for utilities today -- and other industries as well -- is how to adapt their current operations to address the shifting generational workforce as baby boomers retire. In the commentary linked below, Mike Varney, Senior Director of...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Computing resources, Connectivity
Hisashi Fukuda, General Manager of Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation, discusses how OSIsoft’s PI System has enabled Itochu to use data-driven approaches to deliver services across Japan’s dynamic energy market. He also details how Council...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Computing resources, Connectivity
Spring rains and snowmelt pour into the rivers and reservoirs that feed the Calgary’s water supply. As a result, downtown businesses and residents are faced with unpredictable floods that could do millions of dollars of damage. Read in this case...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources, Examples and case studies
In the commentary linked below, Chief Technology Officer Kai Hui of Council Associate Partner Bit Stew Systems explains how software can help organizations analyze massive amounts of data into a single source of truth, while also automating key...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Computing resources
Author: Amrit P. Singh (AußenwirtschaftsCenter New Delhi 2015)Urbanisation in India2/3 of national GDP comes from urban IndiaThere are about 8,000 cities and towns in IndiaShare of urban population in 2011 was 31%50% in China, 78% in Mexico, 87% in...
Resources - 08/03/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts