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Worrisome as the drought that's parched regions around the world is, a new global study from Council Associate Partner Veolia and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) finds rapidly deteriorating water quality will affect far more...
Article - 04/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Water and wastewater, Research, publications and web sites
What began as a disaster for a Michigan tribal community quickly became a transformative moment as government officials of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi realized something important: they needed to embrace new technology rather than mistrust it....
Article - 04/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity
As urban populations swell, as the number of singles increases -- and as city officials try to make their urban environments more sustainable, livable and economically successful -- down-sized housing provides a way to optimize use of increasingly...
Article - 04/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Built environment, Energy
By Alan Snook, GRID20/20The global evolution of smart cities is gaining tremendous momentum. Leaders are actively embracing the concept of revitalizing cities from a perspective of sustainability. Times are changing and metro-dwellers are...
Article - 04/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Here comes the NY Times with yet another security warning that — sadly — many cities will ignore.It makes a simple point: The more smart devices you have, the more vulnerable you are to hackers. Solutions are available, but only if cities spend the...
Article - 04/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
The Smart Cities Council has launched Smart Cities Council India (SCC India) with Pratap Padode, President of the Foundation of Infrastructure Research Studies Training ( FIRST ) and the SCC India founder. One of...
Article - 04/28/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts
The Smart Cities Council today will roll out a roadmap for smart cities at a Smart Cities Readiness Workshop in collaboration with the Dubai Real Estate Institute and Bechtel.Urbanisation is a key driver towards smarter cities. By 2050, over 70% of...
Article - 04/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
The latest initiative from Bloomberg Philanthropies aims to help mid-size cities better use data and evidence to make government more effective and improve people's lives. U.S. cities with populations between 100,000 and 1 million people are invited...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Who's disrupting the U.S. electric market? S&C, Schneider, Bit Stew among themGreenTech Media's Grid Edge 20ranking of the 20 companies "shaping the power sector's imminent transformation" sites...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
Ooredoo subsidiary Indosat -- a top telecommunications services provider in Indonesia -- has joined with Facebook to bring Internet connections to the many Indonesians who have never had them.The Facebook initiative -- Internet.org -- focuses on...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Some recent remarks from Gregory Curtin might grab the interest of companies developing smart cities solutions. Curtin is founder and CEO of SCC Associate Partner Civic Resource Group (CRG) International and recently spoke with CEOCFO Magazine. He...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Interoperability
California’s prolonged drought is drawing attention to San Francisco’s love for smart water meters. Even more so after the state’s governor recently mandated of a 25% cut in water use by the end of this year.Worried water officials from around the...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
At a very basic level, any city project is really an investment: projects are designed to provide more in benefits than they cost to produce. That’s now how investors are starting to see city projects and they’re increasingly willing to fund them...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
Council Advisor International Finance Corp. – a member of the World Bank Group – and Council Lead Partner MasterCard have agreed to develop a $250 million risk-sharing facility to enable emerging market banks to provide increased access to secure...
Article - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Payments, Connectivity
Please scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Bechtel wins Toronto subway extension project Bechtel has been awarded a contract to work with the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to deliver the Spadina subway extension that will extend the...
Article - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Payments, Transportation, Waste management, Computing resources, Connectivity
"It’s not just a scenario of a bored teenager, deciding to show off to his or her girlfriend. In many cases, these are organized gangs of thieves," said Caleb Barlow, IBM’s VP for mobile management and security, while describing the new face of...
Article - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Security and privacy
Many cities have big ideas. Few cities have the big resources needed to make them reality. But rather than sitting back and watching the world pass them by, some are finding enterprising ways to take on projects that would seem to be beyond their...
Article - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
As the buzz around climate change grows louder, cities around the world are celebrating Earth Day. To refresh your memory, Earth Day made its debut on this date in 1970 and, some would say, launched the modern environmental movement.Yet, while eco-...
Article - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Finance and procurement, Financing and procurement tools
A Digital Trends article on San Jose and smart city technologies an interview with Council Founder and Chairman Jesse Berst. You can read a couple of excerpts below and the full article here. “If we get the countryside just right and don’t get...
Article - 04/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
A National Geographic series on smart cities will showcase San Diego in an hour-long documentary scheduled to start airing on the National Geographic Channel in 60 countries beginning April 25. A Times of San Diego report says the documentary "...
Article - 04/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity
The app, referred to as Ten Types of Innovation by its developer, gives innovators a series of tools – and structure – to help them transform their brainstorms into a systematic approach that will yield tangible results.The iPad app was released by...
Article - 04/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Connectivity, Smart City Tools
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Panama City intends to get smart with help from Cisco Cisco and Panama City announce plan to work together to turn Panama City into a smart city using Council Lead Partner Cisco’s Smart+Connected...
Article - 04/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Construction season adds angst to already messy commutes. In Michigan, a combination of sensors and Bluetooth technology is helping drivers negotiate a major road construction project on a stretch of U.S. 31. IMPROVING MOBILITY Visit our one-stop...
Article - 04/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
While the switch to renewable sources of power, like solar, has great environmental benefits, they are more prone to fluctuations, which makes it more difficult to manage the overall electrical grid. A pilot project in Germany, however, may have...
Article - 04/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Connectivity, Interoperability
When you think of greenhouse gases, you tend to think of the stuff that comes out of a vehicle’s tailpipe. At power plants, you may think only of emissions at facilities that burn fuel. But all electrical facilities use them. They’re used as...
Article - 04/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
When Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took the wraps off the city’s new multi-faceted sustainability plan, it was clear that he wasn’t going to be timid about dealing with the city’s increasing temperatures and growing population density.The new 20-...
Article - 04/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Transportation, Policy and leadership
The sandstorms created by strong winds flowing through Inner Mongolia blow ever-shifting sand dunes eastward toward cities. The problem is that Inner Mongolia Power Group’s transmission lines provide Beijing with about a sixth of its power, and the...
Article - 04/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, China, North America
Category: Energy
Two recent announcements give us important hints about the future of microgrids. A microgrid encompasses a proscribed area such as a campus, district or military base. It includes some generation on-site or nearby and typically some energy storage...
Article - 04/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
The announcement below from Silver Spring Networks is another example of the company's strong push into street lighting. It also carries messages for cities and for other smart city suppliers. First, smart street lights are about way more than...
Article - 04/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
As technology rapidly improves, the services that citizens need and expect from their cities also grows. But even cities that use technology to make incremental improvements may soon be left behind -– if they haven’t been already. A new report finds...
Article - 04/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Seattle Center visitors may find the free Internet service at the popular park and entertainment venue more enchanting than the iconic Space Needle that towers over it.With help from SCC Lead Partner Microsoft, the city of Seattle is piloting a new...
Article - 04/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Connectivity
The Internet of Things (IoT) is already transforming homes and cities by giving people access to real-time data that they can immediately act upon. But factories are now starting to catch on, too.That transformation could pay off for cities, but...
Article - 04/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement, Computing resources
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Microsoft makes $3 million YouthSpark investment in Vietnam's digital futureThe investment is part of Council Lead Partner Microsoft's global YouthSpark commitment to empower young people with...
Article - 04/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Connectivity, Finance and procurement
Council Lead Partner Bechtel has had a long and successful presence in Saudi Arabia, spanning almost 70 years. In an interview that recently appeared in The Gulf Online, David Welch, the company’s president for Saudi Arabia, the Middle East and...
Article - 04/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation
In developed countries, people rely on the banking system all of the time and never even think about it. In developing countries, for some people banking is treated as a luxury even though it has really become a necessity. That’s holding residents...
Article - 04/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Broad-based technology giants such as IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and Siemens are often recognized as today’s leading smart city solution vendors.Yet two other tech heavyweights -- companies best known for their chip-making prowess -- are also gaining...
Article - 04/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Connectivity
There are almost 20,000 properties in Flint, Michigan in need of blight elimination, city officials say. Flint's ambitious five-year blight elimination framework includes a plan to launch a Problem Property Portal, giving community members the...
Article - 04/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Good reads department: IBM on Johannesburg as "a model of urban renewal" Writing for Forbes, IBM Chief Storyteller Steve Hamm puts the spotlight on Johannesburg, South Africa – in particular what he...
Article - 04/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Interoperability
Council Lead Partner Microsoft and one of Brazil’s biggest universities, Federal University of Minas Gerais, have joined forces to harness data from a variety of sources to figure out if it’s possible to predict traffic jams from 15 to 60 minutes in...
Article - 04/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Computing resources
Watch the WCNC.com interview with Amy Aussieker, Executive Director of Envision Charlotte, during the Council's March, 2015 Smart Cities Now forum in Charlotte. Click here to watch.
Article - 04/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
WFAE 90.7 -- Charlotte's NPR affiliate -- interviewed members of the Smart Cities Council during its Smart Cities Now forum in Charlotte, NC, in March, 2015. Click to listen in.
Article - 04/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Schneider Electric is taking its experience in energy management and automation to an Alabama school district where it will provide an extensive renovation that will ultimately result in a better environment for students and save the district a lot...
Article - 04/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
A recent ranking of the top bike-friendly cities in the U.S. on the BetterDoctor blog puts Washington, D.C. as No. 2 behind Portland, Oregon. It's based on the number of cyclists who commute to work, the number of bicycling fatalities and funds...
Article - 04/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation
Today the traditional ways cities approached healthcare are being challenged by several factors, all of which have converged to place an enormous strain on already tight budgets. Chronic diseases are more prevalent than ever. Many regions have...
Article - 04/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Connectivity
With numerous wind, geothermal, solar, biomass and hydropower plants operating throughout North America and elsewhere in the world, Council Lead Partner Enel plans to double its total installed capacity of renewable power generation over the next...
Article - 04/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
It’s been said that water is the new gold. California just imposed its first statewide water restrictions in response to a historic drought. Australia, which for a decade suffered from a severe drought it called the Big Dry, is still struggling to...
Article - 04/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control
A new report from the Green Investment Bank (GIB) highlights 10 innovative technologies that can modernize improve the UK's urban infrastructure. As all 10 are already being used in at least one UK city or town, the GIB suggests the technologies...
Article - 04/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Waste management, Finance and procurement
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Allied Telesis expands solutions for schools, hospitals, governmentsIP networking leader and Council Lead Partner Allied Telesis expanded its popular range of xSeries distribution switches. The x930...
Article - 04/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Waste management, Connectivity
Speaking at a smart cities conference last year, an Israeli Energy and Water Ministry official declared that the primary goal for smart cities should be to accommodate the needs of all citizens rather than be a collection of smart technologies. In...
Article - 04/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Smart cities are an important subset of the Internet of Things. In the early IoT days, many of the big players focused on building applications of their own. Since then, we've all realized that it will take an army of solution providers to code and...
Article - 04/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
Even for people with good vision, navigating cities can be a bewildering experience. For people who are blind, the task can be absolutely terrifying. A new project, featuring work from Council Lead Partner Microsoft, hopes to change that by letting...
Article - 04/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness, Health and human services, Public safety and security, Transportation
Driving in Qatar is not for the faint of heart. Like many developed areas, there are traffic jams. Qatar, though, is also notorious for unpredictable drivers who will bully you out of their way.A new effort by Council Lead Partner Ooredoo could help...
Article - 04/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation, Analytics
Bechtel’s Amos Avidan talks about the dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions on the massive Crossrail construction project in London through changes in his company's work processes. Bechtel is a Council Lead Partner.
Resources - 04/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment
Learn how Sacramento Municipal Utility District is using situational intelligence applications to increase grid reliability and integrate new energy technologies such as wind and solar power, electric vehicles, energy storage and demand response in...
Resources - 04/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
Watch this short video from Council Associate Partner Elster for examples of cities that are deploying advanced water metering systems to detect leaks and other water losses.
Resources - 04/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Take this video tour of openBerlin, a Cisco Internet of Everything Innovation Center where collaboration between partners, researchers and startups is powering innovative new solutions for the Internet of Everything. Cisco is a Council Lead Partner.
Resources - 04/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Connectivity, Research, publications and web sites
Listen as Ginni Rometty, CEO of Council Lead Partner IBM, talks to Charlie Rose about her company's new Watson Health project, and why she believes it will revolutionize healthcare.
Resources - 04/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources
If you ever wondered how sensors are tested, this video from Council Associate Partner Enevo demonstrates how its fill-level sensors are tested under a variety of conditions.
Resources - 04/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Instrumentation and control
A global study by Council Associate Partner Veolia and the International Food Policy Research Institute found that rapidly deteriorating water quality over the next several decades will increase risks to human health, economic development and...
Resources - 04/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Water and wastewater, Research, publications and web sites
Urban Integrated, [ui!] -- a Council Associate Partner -- has developed a cloud-based application that processes traffic-relevant data. The solution built on Microsoft Azure analyses the sensor data transmitted by traffic guidance systems at...
Resources - 04/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies