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This past weekend has seen a Scott Morrison-led Liberal-National Coalition returned to Government. Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand (SCCANZ) congratulates Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Coalition, and in our role as the peak...
Article - 05/20/2019
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Data shows, the police in India take a minimum of 8-10 hours to track the path of the criminal. To keep a watch on criminal activities, the Pune Police has connected and geo-tagged 10,000 private CCTV cameras in the city to their system to improve...
Article - 05/20/2019
Active Region(s): India
In many cities, one of the biggest sources of water waste is the city’s own water infrastructure. Aging infrastructure is often leaky infrastructure — an especially expensive problem since the water that’s lost is water that the city has already...
Article - 05/17/2019
Active Region(s): North America
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. Here’s a wrap-up of some of March’s biggest projects, compiled by GovWin from Deltek...
Article - 05/17/2019
Active Region(s): North America
Solid waste management is the biggest challenge faced in metropolitan cities. The simplest solution to this problem is waste segregation at households. With Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) having made it compulsory to segregate waste at...
Article - 05/17/2019
Active Region(s): India
It is becoming increasingly clear that smart, digital cities will have an economic advantage over old-fashioned, analog communities. If you’re looking to accelerate your progress, there’s no better place to look than your local power utility.There...
Article - 05/17/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Maharashtra’s Aurangabad Industrial City (AURIC) is wooing businesses from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to set up operations at the upcoming facility. AURIC is termed as a one-of-its-kind greenfield smart industrial cities in the country.In...
Article - 05/16/2019
Active Region(s): India
Spitting and littering in public places not only creates a filthy environment but also earns the country a bad image. Very soon, throwing garbage and spitting in Ahmedabad streets can soon become an expensive. In its drive to make the city clean,...
Article - 05/16/2019
Active Region(s): India
Kulathummal Canal in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala is on the road to restoration. The Government of Kerala is coming up with a project to improve and restore the soil quality and increase the groundwater table. The canal, over the years, has...
Article - 05/14/2019
Active Region(s): India
The processing of waste plastic products has a significant impact on the environment. Most plastics are not degradable. Moving forward on its commitment towards Environment, Dabur, a producer of Ayurvedic products, has plans to expand its mega...
Article - 05/14/2019
Active Region(s): India
India generates approximately 0.025 MT of plastic waste every day. Out of this, 94 per cent is thermoplastic content, which includes polyethylene terephthalate PET, low-density polyethylene (LPDE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polyvinyl...
Article - 05/02/2019
Active Region(s): India
Decentralized approach of managing solid waste is an approach by various small waste management centers within the community. The individual micro-management centers engage informal sector i.e., rag-pickers for collection and transportation of waste...
Article - 05/02/2019
Active Region(s): India
Cybersecurity for Industry 4.0, a joint study conducted by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) with global professional services firm Ernst & Young (EY) noted that the focus of the current governments and...
Article - 05/02/2019
Active Region(s): India
Greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants have been a critical challenge for India and it is a challenge that needs to be addressed heads-on given the country’s increasing demand for electricity. For example, electricity consumption grew from...
Article - 05/02/2019
Active Region(s): India
The current method of monitoring the construction process and delivering information involved a lot of manpower and needed to be done on a regular basis. This also sometimes involved disrupting operations for days on the end, thereby decreasing...
Article - 05/02/2019
Active Region(s): India
India is known for its haphazard waste management skills and disposing of the garbage in an eco-friendly manner. However, gradually the scenario is changing.Tawang district in Arunachal Pradesh has been declared as the cleanest district in the...
Article - 04/29/2019
Active Region(s): India
A call for abstracts has been released by Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand for its signature event - Smart Cities Week Australia. The event will be hosted in Sydney from October 30 - November 1 2019. The call for abstracts is associated...
Article - 04/28/2019
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
By Nick Schiffler, DeltekHere are 10 smart city projects from the past month that were awarded to a vendor, recently put out to bid or included in an agency’s future spending plan:Recent Contract Awards GovWin IQ tracks government projects through...
Article - 04/26/2019
Active Region(s): North America
By Mueller SystemsManually connecting and disconnecting water service for the transient “snowbird” residents has been a longtime administrative hassle for the Charlotte County Utilities (CCU), but far more costly and labor-intensive have been the...
Article - 04/26/2019
Active Region(s): North America
We hope that you were able to join us for Smart Cities Week San Diego, April 15-17. If you want copies of infographics created during sessions you attended or just want to see what you missed, we’re providing high-resolution versions for you to...
Article - 04/25/2019
Active Region(s): North America
Transportation plays a significant role in the transformation of a smart city. An intelligent transport management system is the one which is integrated with Information and Communication Technology that ensures easy commute options for the people...
Article - 04/25/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Smart Cities Mission was launched by the Indian government in 2015, with an estimated project value of approximately $14 billion. The scheme aims at developing a number of urban financial centres across India, each of which is endowed with the...
Article - 04/25/2019
Active Region(s): India
Tamil Nadu is the most urbanised state in India, with 48.5% of its population living in urban areas. The Commissionerate of Municipal Administration (CMA) has under its purview all municipal corporations (11 in number) other than Chennai and all 125...
Article - 04/25/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has started receiving solar power from the Rewa Solar Power Project from today onwards. Today, DMRC received 27 MW power from the project based in Madhya Pradesh and the same will gradually increase to 99 MW....
Article - 04/25/2019
Active Region(s): India
Commercial drones (remote-controlled unmanned aircraft systems) are too small to be tracked with radar systems and pose a serious risk to pilots. Not only can they cause accidents with aircraft, but they can also be used for a crime-related activity...
Article - 04/20/2019
Active Region(s): Europe
The growing economies across the globe are observing an increase in urban population, rise in per capita income level and increasing consumption level. With India growing on similar grounds, increase in purchasing power has led to more affordability...
Article - 04/19/2019
Active Region(s): India
Namami Gange is the Indian government’s ambitious programme to restore water quality in the Ganga and its tributaries. The main objective of Namami Gange is to prevent the flow of untreated sewage into Ganga and its tributaries. The Prayagraj...
Article - 04/19/2019
Active Region(s): India
A leading industry report predicts that utility firms are forecast to reduce their expenditure by nearly $157 billion by 2035 through smart meter applications, thereby stimulating Internet of Things (IoT) utilities market trends in the years ahead....
Article - 04/19/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Smart Cities Council has named the winners of its annual Smart Cities Readiness Challenge, honoring five communities across North American for ambitious smart cities visions that are impactful, collaborative, inclusive and sustainable.The...
Article - 04/17/2019
Active Region(s): North America
The Smart Cities Council has named the winners of its annual Smart Cities Readiness Challenge, honoring five communities across North American for ambitious smart cities visions that are impactful, collaborative, inclusive and sustainable.The...
Article - 04/17/2019
Active Region(s): North America
Tata Steel is committed to play a leading role in conservation of water and significantly reduce its impact on water. The steel company, which has setup a 30,000 cubic meters a day (m3/d) tertiary-level treatment plant in 2018, has now resulted in a...
Article - 04/16/2019
Active Region(s): India
At a time of widespread agricultural distress caused by successive droughts, unremunerative farming and debt-trapped rural economies, a young man with his mobile app is showing how change can be brought in the life of farmers at the grass-root level...
Article - 04/16/2019
Active Region(s): India
By IESThe built environment currently accounts for 40% of the world’s energy use, meaning buildings and cities have the potential to make the biggest impact in reducing carbon emissions globally.Climate reports over the last 6 months have made clear...
Article - 04/14/2019
Active Region(s): North America
Most people, upon hearing the words “smart city” will think of some of the large-scale projects that have recently been announced from such cities as New York, Boston, Barcelona and Singapore. However, thinking that the smart city phenomenon only...
Article - 04/14/2019
Active Region(s): North America
Deployment of wireless smart sensors to monitor the integrity of bridges and identify leakages in water distribution pipelines helps the city authorities to prioritise their limited investments. Early this year, AT&T launched a service in...
Article - 04/11/2019
Active Region(s): India
There are a variety of frameworks that city councils can pursue in order to realise their Smart Cities, all with differing extents of private sector involvement. The public sector can choose to deliver the project directly, but this is reliant on...
Article - 04/11/2019
Active Region(s): India
Karnataka’s Shivamogga Smart City has come up with a tender to procure 100 electric rickshaws. The bid submission deadline is May 6, 2019.To participate in the bidding process, the prospective bidder must be a manufacturer or an authorized dealer...
Article - 04/11/2019
Active Region(s): India
From dairies to smart cities, India is steadily transforming into an IoT country. According to a NASSCOM report, India will be home to 2.7 billion connected devices by 2020. With this increase, India is also witnessing a spurt in the number of...
Article - 04/11/2019
Active Region(s): India
With India's the Internet of Things (IoT) market poised to touch $15 billion USD by 2020, new and cost-effective solutions are an integral part of driving the market growth and IoT adoption in India. With over 90 million commercial refrigeration...
Article - 04/10/2019
Active Region(s): India
Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) will soon use drones for aerial site photography to monitor the progress of ongoing construction projects. The drones will take aerial photographs of the New South Parallel Runway (NSPR) project area (624 acres...
Article - 04/05/2019
Active Region(s): India
Sean Chiao, President, Asia Pacific, Aecom said that when the smart cities mission of the country is implemented completely, Indian cities will have much to learn from each other’s successes and failures.What are the opportunities in India’s smart...
Article - 04/05/2019
Active Region(s): India
Students will be introduced to scientific waste disposal for the first time from the academic year 2019-20. The syllabus, prepared by the Pune-based Mutha Foundation with inputs from the state department of science and technology, will be part of...
Article - 04/05/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Mumbai Metro, run by Reliance has partnered with several private and public banks that offer their regular commuters with the Mumbai Metro smart card which incorporates dual purposes. Each of these banks has various benefits to offer the users,...
Article - 04/05/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled smart watches introduced by the Lucknow Municipal Corporation to keep track of the workers has caught red-handed 13 sanitary workers who skipped their duty.Smart watches are being distributed to sanitary...
Article - 04/05/2019
Active Region(s): India
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. Here’s a wrap-up of some of March’s biggest projects, compiled by GovWin from Deltek...
Article - 04/05/2019
Active Region(s): North America
By most measures cities are thriving. A new report from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program finds that of the 100 largest cities in the U.S., almost all of them have growing economies.But while their economies might be red hot, the benefits...
Article - 04/05/2019
Active Region(s): North America
Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand (SCCANZ) has called on all political parties to position the nation for global competitiveness and leverage the opportunity of technology strategies and data insights to deliver more prosperous, and...
Article - 04/02/2019
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
The Human Resource Development Ministry’s assessment of learning levels among India’s 10th standard students in 2015 placed Tamil Nadu’s students close to the bottom in every subject. In Chennai, government-run schools have shown poor performance...
Article - 03/28/2019
Active Region(s): India
To improve connectivity between Diu (Old City) and Ghoghla Beach and to leverage the waterfront location and the beach destinations in order to improve the tourism potential of Diu, the Diu Smart City has proposed to build a 300 meters Diu Ghoghla...
Article - 03/28/2019
Active Region(s): India
To empower citizens to co-create and manage their neighborhoods and open spaces, the Bhubaneswar Smart City Ltd (BSCL) is developing B-Active project. The project aims at improving the quality of life of citizens by developing public open spaces. It...
Article - 03/28/2019
Active Region(s): India
To improve a shared community infrastructure as well as augmenting social and technological capacity to achieve the goal of a ‘slumfree’ Puducherry, the Puducherry Smart City Corporation Ltd (PSCCL) has launched “Our Neighbourhood is Your...
Article - 03/28/2019
Active Region(s): India
In the wake of growing geopolitical tensions, population explosion and ever-changing climatic conditions, nations, and the big companies instrumental in driving their economies cannot afford to ignore the need to develop resilient infrastructure. On...
Article - 03/28/2019
Active Region(s): India
Our 2019 North American Smart Cities Readiness Challenge was our biggest yet. More than 100 cities throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico participated and three dozen delivered very strong applications detailing numerous smart cities projects they...
Article - 03/25/2019
Active Region(s): North America
The Steel Authority of India (SAIL) has launched Internet of Things (IoT)-driven garbage bins across South and North Delhi Municipal Corporation area, which automatically sends a signal to the waste collection authority once the bins are full.One of...
Article - 03/22/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Surat Smart City Development (SSCDL) has developed that will create a digitally-inclusive urban space through interactive service delivery points. The project targets space creation in public open spaces, the creation of additional service...
Article - 03/22/2019
Active Region(s): India
To impact as many school students as possible with education support, improve student retention rate in schools by strengthening education systems, and to provide user-friendly mobile community development centre as a learning space, the Bhopal...
Article - 03/20/2019
Active Region(s): India
In a quest to improve the overall mobility of the city, the Thane Smart City (TSCL), a special purpose vehicle, is developing a mobility improvement plant as a part of its area-based development plan. The project proposes station area improvement to...
Article - 03/20/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Smart City Ahmedabad Development has developed a last mile connectivity model using dockless bikes for Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) and along with Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Services (AMTS).The project aims to ease last mile connectivity...
Article - 03/20/2019
Active Region(s): India
The project aims to develop a identity management system using Blockchain and Aadhaar as a backbone for a secure platform and improve public service delivery in Puducherry.The project will be undertaken in two phases as follows:In phase-I, the...
Article - 03/18/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation (NSSCDCL) has envisaged to implement a integrated digital governance system to effectively deliver the applicable municipal services to anyone, anywhere, anytime irrespective of their...
Article - 03/18/2019
Active Region(s): India