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Demand for clean, energy-efficient renewable energy is growing in several fields, including supplying power for communications systems. When traditional hybrid renewable power solutions can't always meet customers' needs, integrated hybrid power...
Resources - 03/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Telecommunications
The next generation of operations/business support system (OSS/BSS) will not be an OSS/BSS at all, but rather a platform where telcos can develop customer-targeted products and solutions, and carry out their internal operations -- a tool where open...
Resources - 02/26/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Telecommunications
The main goal for a Smart Sustainable City is to enhance the quality of life of the citizens across multiple, interrelated dimensions, including the provision and access to water resources, energy, transportation and mobility, education, environment...
Resources - 10/30/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Telecommunications, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management, Interoperability, Policy frameworks and tools
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
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
This video explains how CivicConnect™ Mobile from Council Associate Partner Civic Resource Group International enables rapid deployment of dynamic mobile websites and applications for smart government on the go.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity
Texas State Technical College (TSTC) Waco wanted a wireless system flexible enough for the day-to-day demands of 5,000+ students and that could support any application the college might deploy in the future. It chose the Extricom Series’ WLAN from...
Resources - 05/30/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
In 2010, Charlotte, NC–based Duke Energy -- along with the local organization Charlotte Center City Partners -- launched a new partnership called Envision Charlotte. Unveiled during the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting, the program...
Resources - 05/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
The city of tomorrow is a city of information. Smart cities are greener, safer, faster and friendlier. Watch this video to learn how Council Lead Partner Verizon has been helping to transform cities into smarter cities for more than a decade.
Resources - 05/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust wanted to improve workflow and communications throughout its services to help doctors and nurses connect more efficiently and deliver higher levels of care. Belfast Trust deployed Lync Server 2010 from Council...
Resources - 03/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Telecommunications, Connectivity
Snapdragon Sense ID is the first comprehensive mobile biometric solution based on ultrasonic technology. Watch this video from Council Lead Partner Qualcomm to learn more about this cutting-edge fingerprint authentication breakthrough.
Resources - 03/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Connectivity
Nagahama City, Japan, wanted to reduce ICT costs and simplify network operation and management. As part of an upgrade they planned to converge their information and digital telephony systems onto a single network. Read in this case study how...
Resources - 01/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Telecommunications, Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
As one of Europe’s oldest cable operators, Melita delivers a seamless broadband service with Council Lead Partner Cisco’s Universal Wi-Fi, and together they are helping turn Malta into a smart island. Watch this video to learn more.
Resources - 01/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity
Why does broadband matter in countries that have so many other pressing issues? Ooredoo Chairman Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al Thani answers that and other questions about connecting people to the Internet in this video interview by the...
Resources - 10/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity
ABB has commissioned a high-performance wireless broadband network for the historic city of Venice, Italy. The wi-fi solution comprises a network of fixed and mobile nodes that can handle more than 200 gigabytes of data and 40,000 subscribers a day...
Resources - 03/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
The motto of the Smart Cities Council is "Livability, Workability, Sustainability." That middle piece -- workability, aka global competitiveness, aka economic development -- may be the most powerful driver of all as the world emerges from a tough...
Resources - 07/18/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Examples and case studies
Q&A with Jochen Kreusel, Head of sector initiative Smart Grids, ABBJochen Kreusel is an exemplary German technology expert -- someone who combines deep technical proficiency with strong managerial skills. His conversations are often marked by a...
Resources - 06/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation
Reed Pangborn is AT&T's area vice president for government, education and medical. In that role, he is responsible for helping cities "mobilize" their applications. An active runner, hiker and skier, he is a happy resident of Phoenix, where it...
Resources - 05/04/2013
Active Region(s): Main, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Finance and procurement
Philip Mezey combines a distinguished countenance with boyish curiosity and enthusiasm. In 2012, after an external search to find a replacement for the retiring LeRoy Nosbaum, the company realized it had the ideal candidate in house and named...
Resources - 04/19/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control