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Scroll down for short takes from Council Partners…Itron wins Bangladesh contract: Itron will supply 8,600 prepaid gas meters to the national utility of Bangladesh, Titus Gas Transmission and Distribution Co. According to a report at metering.com,...
Article - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Joel Cherkis, GM of Microsoft's Worldwide Government team, notes in a recent blog post that there are a lot of ways cities can address the challenges of urbanization. But what he hears from city leaders is there aren't a lot of options to pay for...
Article - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Finance and procurement
The smart folks at ProgrammableWeb published an excellent primer detailing why and how smart cities are opening up public transport data so developers can create useful tools that enhance city living. As author Mark Boyd explains, "Public transport...
Article - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Data management
An effort launched this week by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) wants to get city leaders from the U.S. and abroad to identify standardization priorities for smart and sustainable cities. The Smart Cities Council is a founding...
Article - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Interoperability, Policy and leadership
Reprinted with permission from Smart Grid News...It sometimes takes a crisis to get people thinking seriously about smart water networks. And California certainly has a crisis on its hands in terms of its historic drought. See below how San...
Article - 05/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Approaches to financing infrastructure projects vary around the world, so it's always useful to see what's working elsewhere.An interesting glimpse at a financing tool being used successfully in Latin America comes from Folha de S.Paulo columnist...
Article - 05/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Finance and procurement
Let’s say a caustic gas leak occurs in an office building when a contractor inadvertently cuts the wrong pipe in the ventilation system. A 911 call is placed and the city’s first responders quickly show up on the scene.But how can the city ensure...
Article - 05/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Public safety and security
Scroll down for short takes from Council Partners…Enel's big PV move in Chile: The utility giant's renewables division started construction on two photovoltaic (PV) plants in northern Chile. The Lalackama plant, with an installed capacity of 60 MW,...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Cisco and Streetline jointly developed a first-of-its-kind camera-based parking spot detection solution that can work in conjunction with or in lieu of in-ground sensors.While in-ground sensors are highly effective for detecting vehicles in...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
As the Council's Smart Cities Readiness Guide points out, it's one thing for a city to deploy smart infrastructure. But a smart city also needs highly trained workers in both the public and private sector to operate that infrastructure. And skilled...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Policy and leadership
Is it possible to create a better bus system without incurring higher operating costs? Transit planners in Houston are out to prove you can.Houston Metro, burdened with a transit system devised in the 1970s, has proposed an extensive makeover of the...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement
Power outages are costly – even those brief blips when the lights flicker momentarily. S&C Electric VP Mike Edmonds suggests what may seem like a momentary nuisance to most of us can cost the U.S. economy $52 billion each year.How? Here are his...
Article - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
HandUp, a young San Francisco company that uses crowd-funding to help the homeless, won top honors in the smart cities sector of the first annual Challenge Cup, a business competition hosted by Washington, D.C.-based startup hub 1776.Launched last...
Article - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Computing resources
An organization that promotes the benefits of compact and connected communities has published a report that ranks 221 metro areas on the amount of sprawl included in their development patterns.Council Advisor Smart Growth America just released ...
Article - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Transportation
Those tediously detailed documents called “ISO standards” set out requirements and technical specifications for everything from food packaging, to car ergonomics, to blood transfusion equipment. They help reassure consumers that products are safe,...
Article - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Interoperability
Scroll down for short takes from Council Partners and Advisors....Bechtel lauded by DOE for safety work at Hanford: Council Global Partner Bechtel has once again earned the highest recognition for excellence in safety from the U.S. Department of...
Article - 05/16/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Connectivity
AmLegal Decoder is a new tool that promises to seamlessly transform hard-to-use city laws and legal codes into user-friendly open data. It was first deployed in San Francisco after the Mayor's Office of Civic Innovation, The OpenGov Foundation and...
Article - 05/16/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Data management, Smart City Tools
Many young people could care less about city planning or wrapping their brains around how to make their communities better places to live. They've got other things on their minds in their teens and twenties. But since they are the ones who will...
Article - 05/16/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Citizen engagement
Microsoft is teaming with Facebook and SpectraLink Wireless to enable low-cost wireless connectivity to university students and faculty in Korforidua, Ghana. It's a component of Microsoft's Afrika Initiative that aims to to empower African students...
Article - 05/16/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
In the first of a series on smart cities, GreenBiz.com cites the Council's definition of smart cities and the framework outlined in the Smart Cities Readiness Guide. Below is a brief excerpt; click here to read the full article. ICT is at the core...
Article - 05/15/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Just last week we reported on the World Health Organization's study of cities with the dirtiest air. Now comes word from engineers at Peru's University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) that they've created a billboard that uses basic...
Article - 05/14/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Health and human services
Sandra Baer, the Council's Cities Director, moderated a panel on enhancing sustainability in urban development projects during the Arab Future Cities Summit in Doha, Qatar in April. Council Global Partners Cisco and Microsoft and Associate...
Article - 05/14/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
(Washington, DC) May 13, 2014 – The Smart Cities Council, an industry coalition to improve the livability, workability and sustainability of the world's cities, continues to round out its impressive roster of partners with four new members:...
Article - 05/13/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
How can cities connect residents with economic opportunity? How can they give local businesses a boost? One solution may be as close as the nearest web browser or smartphone. More and more cities are building applications for citizens to...
Article - 05/12/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
A study by the World Health Organization (WHO) to measure pollution levels in 1,600 cities around the world revealed some dreary news. WHO says pollution has gotten worse, not better, since its last survey and that poor countries are hit the hardest...
Article - 05/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
S&C Electric engineers Britain's biggest battery farm: Reuters calls it Britain's most ambitious smart grid project yet – a giant battery farm that will power the fast-growing town of Leighton Buzzard north of London. Council Global Partner S...
Article - 05/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Computing resources
New York City kicked off its fifth Big Apps challenge this week with a special plea from Mayor Bill de Blasio that entrants develop ways to reduce traffic fatalities in the city. Toward that end, the city released a database of all traffic...
Article - 05/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
Researchers at the UK's University of Sheffield teamed with GSMA, an organization that represents mobile network operators, to develop a common index for measuring a smart city's smartness. Leveraging a set of 31 indicators developed by GSMA that...
Article - 05/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Every year since 2010 the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Council Advisor, has captured the year's climate change impacts in a short video. And each year, NRDC Executive Director Peter Lehner notes on his blog, it becomes more daunting to...
Article - 05/07/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Water and wastewater, Policy and leadership
By Chris NoonanSenior Program Advisor, Institute for Energy & Sustainability* The way we live and interact with everyday things like buying milk or using a crosswalk, to complex equipment like satellites or the international space station,...
Article - 05/07/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Analytics, Data management, Security and privacy
Organizers say the second National Day of Civic Hacking already has more than 100 events scheduled around the world and expects thousands of participants to show up to help turn data sets from local and federal agencies into impactful, technology-...
Article - 05/07/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity
You can find a Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) in more than 100 countries around the world. But, until now, you couldn’t find one in the United States.Microsoft has announced the opening its first U.S.-based Innovation Center in downtown Miami...
Article - 05/07/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Economic development
Hamburg, Germany is no slouch when it comes to smart approaches. In fact, Cisco's chief globalization officer Wim Elfrink said the other day that Hamburg is quickly emerging as one of the world's smart city showcases. And Cisco, a Council Global...
Article - 05/02/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
A new report from Navigant Research anticipates that light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will be the leading lamp type for outdoor lighting systems in just 10 years. This isn't a big surprise, given LED prices continue to fall and cities are starting to...
Article - 05/02/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Instrumentation and control, Research, publications and web sites
Sustainable cities are cities that make it reasonably easy to get to your job. And residents in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan region now have a tool that helps them see exactly how reasonable -- or not -- job travel is.DataHaven...
Article - 05/02/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Computing resources
Oracle provides public sector leaders with a complete, open and integrated suite of applications, servers and storage solutions engineered to work together to optimize every aspect of government operations. Oracle Public Sector enables the next...
Company Information - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): India, Main, Readiness Guide, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities, RG Global, RG ANZ, RG Europe
Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) is a national association of business leaders who are making the global energy system more secure, clean and affordable. Advanced energy encompasses a broad range of products and services that constitute the...
Company Information - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
The EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration Initiative was a seven-year international collaborative research program which studied many different aspects of modernizing the world’s energy grid. Twenty-four utilities from Australia, Canada, France, Ireland,...
Resources - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
In this short video, Laurent Schmitt of Alstom Grid, a Council Global Partner, explains how big data and security are paramount to Alstom's business and future objectives for smart grid systems. He also discusses how Alstom's collaboration with...
Resources - 05/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Security and privacy
According to Council Global Partner IBM, in five years the city will help you live in it. You'll play a direct role in the decision-making process, and your city will become a direct reflection of everyone who lives there. Every year IBM makes...
Resources - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
In this video, Adam Shaw of News Super Videos visits Tianjin Eco-City - a city from scratch under development in north east China - to see how it plans to balance urban expansion and the impact on natural resources and the environment. Council...
Resources - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Examples and case studies
Tens of billions of devices and systems are connecting in the Internet of Things, bringing revolutionary changes to cities -- improving traffic flows, boosting building efficiency and maximizing water use, for example. Listen to this Fortune...
Resources - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Connectivity
When a water audit found 39% of the water coming through the Town of Olds' supply line couldn’t be accounted for, it appeared leak repairs might recover enough water to delay the need for expensive infrastructure expansion. The town deployed a...
Resources - 05/10/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
If you've wondered how self-driving cars would fare on city streets, this video is your chance to take a look. Google is testing its self-driving cars on the streets of Mountain View, California where its headquarters are located. For more on self-...
Resources - 05/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment
The utility serving Madison, Tennessee used to read its water meters manually every other month, estimating usage in intervening months. Even so, the process took eight to 10 readers, in four to five cars, more than 20 hours. After switching to RF...
Resources - 05/06/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control