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Smart cities are designed to be safe places to live, and many things contribute to public safety, from improved street lighting to enhanced police and fire protection, and much more. Unfortunately, the connectivity and intelligent technologies that...
Article - 11/30/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Responsibility areas, Security and privacy, Policy frameworks and tools
China’s stated intent to be the world’s smart city technology leader in five years is certainly ambitious. It also seems to be a matter of necessity for the country.As readers know, people are moving from rural and other outlying areas into the...
Article - 11/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
Police officers are under the public’s microscope. After high-profile brutality cases, people are quick to reach for their smartphones to record any questionable interaction with law enforcement.Now a new app makes it even easier for people to...
Article - 11/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Citizen engagement
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners …S&C Electric Co. named founding sponsor of energy innovation effort Council Lead Partner S&C Electric Company has been named a founding sponsor of the Performance Excellence in Electricity...
Article - 11/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
While dry conditions are expected to end or lessen considerably soon in some parts of the country, they are expected to continue into next year for much of the Pacific Northwest. And while California is expecting relief from its extreme drought...
Article - 11/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement
The Council's motto is "livability, workability and sustainability." Better health is a key part of better livability. Cities can contribute to better health in a lot of ways, including environmental improvements that make air and water safer.You...
Article - 11/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics
Council Lead Partner GE won the prize in competitive bidding to supply Indian Railways with the locomotives, construction and maintenance facilities it needs to upgrade its system. GE plans to invest $200 million in the project, and anticipates a...
Article - 11/18/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Economic development, Transportation
More and more cities are setting ambitious targets for renewable energy. San Diego, for instance, wants to be 100% renewable by 2035. But how do you achieve such ambitious targets? "One neighborhood at a time" may prove to be the right answer. As...
Article - 11/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy
In just the past few years, we’ve seen just how devastating severe storms can be to coastal areas. And as sea levels rise, that threat is only going to get worse.So what can you do to mitigate the risk? Council Lead Partner Bechtel is finding that...
Article - 11/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Water and wastewater
At 55%, Tacoma's high school graduation rate was well below the national average of 81%. Fortunately, with help from Council Lead Partner Microsoft and its integrated IT solutions -- and the data available in existing school records, the graduation...
Article - 11/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Responsibility areas, Health and human services, Analytics, Data management
Most renewable energy is intermittent. To be fully effective, therefore, it needs to be teamed with energy storage.Until recently, energy storage has been too expensive. Now, however, prices are beginning to drop.Electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla...
Article - 11/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy
Urban planning is often an exercise in extrapolation. We extend current trends to guess where they will be in the future. But that may not work for traffic planning, at least according to a survey of Boston professionals. The younger generation...
Article - 11/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Examples and case studies
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners …Microsoft to open UK data centers Council Lead Partner Microsoft announced plans to open data centers in the UK, a move that will open its cloud-based services to government customers there and...
Article - 11/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
It's bad enough that cities typically struggle with limited budgets and stretched resources to maintain the services and systems their residents need and expect, but the task is even harder against the background of a sluggish global economy.Roland...
Article - 11/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Economic development, Citizen engagement
New "collaborative" robots are taking work away from humans, as you'll read below. Unless you want to see your city's unemployment rate rise, you'll want to take steps to stem the tide. Especially since the best fight-back tactic is something you...
Article - 11/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Computing resources
For more than a hundred years, the electric power industry worked exclusively on the supply side. When demand grew, they simply built more power plants. But electricity demand is subject to severe peaks (think of a hot summer day where everybody's...
Article - 11/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement
Blazing fast 5G wireless technology is generally expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, although it may come sooner. Hopes are high for the new technology because of its speed and bandwidth. And several companies are working together to make...
Article - 11/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners …Silver Spring Networks introduces Operations OptimizerSilver Spring Networks, a Council Associate Partner, has introduced its Operations Optimizer, which analyzes data from over 30 million water,...
Article - 11/06/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Anyone familiar with the terms 'analytics' or 'Big Data' knows how valuable the data collected from all those meters, sensors and other smart devices can be when it is translated into intelligence cities can actually use to help both employees and...
Article - 11/06/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management
Navigant Research says global smart energy for smart cities revenue is forecast to grow from $7.3 billion in 2015 to $20.9 billion in 2024.The reason? City leaders are increasingly active in developing climate change mitigation and adaptation...
Article - 11/06/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy
Power outages are expensive. In the U.S. alone, outages may add up to more than $100 billion in an average year, and significantly higher in years with severe weather.Council Associate Partner Space-Time Insight is among those working to help lower...
Article - 11/06/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Council Lead Partner Ooredoo may be best known for its communications services ranging from super-fast 4G mobile Internet to its nationwide fiber home broadband network, but it has also established a presence in the energy industry.The company took...
Article - 11/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications
Poverty. Infectious disease outbreaks. Preparations for natural disasters. All are big problems that may not seem to have answers.But a new effort helps to show governments of all levels that they may already have the answers. The key is to pull...
Article - 11/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
Biometrics, a collection of technologies designed to recognize people by their faces, voices, DNA and fingerprints, is growing across a broad range of industries, including law enforcement, finance, consumer devices and healthcare. Governments and...
Article - 11/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Complex legacy city infrastructures present an obstacle for cities struggling to provide better service to their citizens. And often governments focus on IT while operational technology is overlooked. This Schneider Electric white paper examines the...
Resources - 11/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Instrumentation and control
Cost isn't the only reason many cities are switching to LED lighting systems. They're less expensive to operate and maintain, but think of them as a gateway too. Integrated lighting technologies from Council Lead Partner Verizon offer a way to...
Resources - 11/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Connectivity, Interoperability
Getting video surveillance protection for critical infrastructure or often unattended facilities can be daunting, in terms of equipment, personnel costs and data storage. Intelligent Video surveillance-as-a-service from Verizon for infrastructure...
Resources - 11/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Security and privacy
To provide smart cities with water infrastructure systems, Hitachi is promoting its intelligent water system concept for integrating water treatment systems with information and control systems for the efficient utilization of recycled water.
Resources - 11/05/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Water and wastewater, Policy frameworks and tools, Research, publications and web sites
The government of India has launched an ambitious and transformational scheme to develop 100 Smart Cities. These smart cities will be enabled by a number of smart solutions including those targeted to infrastructure, energy, transport, utilities,...
Resources - 11/05/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Computing resources, Smart City Tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools