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When improving citizens’ quality of life, the challenge of providing suitable and sufficient parking ranks consistently at the top of issues to solve for today’s cities. This problem is also constantly expensive for citizens: drivers spend...
Article - 11/07/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity, Data management
Joining the league of cities with smart solutions, Coimbatore from now will monitor air quality for its citizens. The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation has installed 30 solar-powered air quality monitoring devices to address city’s air pollution...
Article - 07/17/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control, Smart City Tools
In a ground-breaking innovation, IIT Kharagpur has developed a fog algorithm that aims to cut delays and cancellations of flights and trains, by clearing hazy visuals caused by rain, fog or smog, all in real time!Current vision systems are designed...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Information Center, Built environment, Health and human services, Public safety and security, Transportation, Data management
Predictive policing, the process of using data and analytics to anticipate where and when crimes will occur, has taken a lot of heat from critics who say it encourages discrimination against certain segments of the population and racial profiling....
Article - 11/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management
The idea of using geographic information systems (GIS) isn't entirely new in the smart cities environment. But the way the city of Los Angeles went about collecting the 500 or so kinds of map data it has and turning it into an accessible and useful...
Article - 02/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Data management
When was the last time your city updated its emergency plan? The way we communicate has changed a lot even over the past few years, so if your city’s website and social media aren’t key parts an emergency plan, it may be time to update it.Like it or...
Article - 07/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Citizen engagement, Data management
Security breaches are growing more common and more threatening. A recent breach of U.S. government systems may have put the personal information of every federal employee -- past and present -- in the hands of hackers. Despite the risks, many cities...
Article - 06/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Computing resources, Data management, Security and privacy
Data lies at the heart of many city services and smart cities are collecting ever increasing amounts of it. While cities use the data to streamline operations and make people’s lives easier, more people are seeing the efforts as creepy.Experts say...
Article - 06/12/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Citizen engagement, Data management
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
In most parts of the world, this would be a completely useless description of a bank robber: white male, 30-45 years old, bandage on the left side of his neck. Thanks to advanced database technology, however, that’s all detectives needed to find the...
Article - 02/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
Efforts to reform the Los Angeles fire department have been anything but easy. As the city reiterates its pledge to improve response times, it’s becoming more transparent than ever about how well it is – or isn’t – performing.The city has launched a...
Article - 11/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management
Smart grids and smart cities share many things, including a common mistake. Executives often think they can't get "smart" until they install a whole bunch of sensors. In fact, most grids and most cities already have mountains of data. For instance,...
Article - 09/25/2013
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management, Policy and leadership
We recently warned you not to let your police department become a guinea pig for the unproven Google Glass technology. Now comes Government Technology magazine with a sneak preview of an upcoming trade show showcasing ideas that ARE ready for prime...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
You will want to skim this Economist article on smart cities for its warnings about what could go wrong; for its hints on the things that are stalling the market; for its anecdotes of cities doing it right; and for its optimistic conclusion that the...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management, Policy and leadership
Property crime down 24%. Violent crime down 9%. Those reductions came as a result of the Vancouver PD's gradual adoption of analytics-led policing starting in 2008. Nor are such results unusual -- I hear similar numbers from police departments all...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management
Here at the Smart Cities Council, we recommend that cities implement a citywide privacy program. The example below explains why. This UK city was just fined roughly $150,000 when a social services employee accidentally published sensitive...
Article - 09/04/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Data management, Policy and leadership, Security and privacy
Video evidence solution provider IRSA wanted to help police departments scale to store more video data in a cost-effective way. To do that, IRSA developed Veretos Cloud, an evidence management solution based on the Microsoft Azure Government cloud....
Resources - 01/23/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Data management
There are several risks associated with mutual aid programs in which a city experiencing a major emergency such as a large power outage calls upon other cities and contractors for help. The vehicle operators and contractors are often unfamiliar with...
Resources - 09/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Data management
The safety of both officers and citizens depends on real-time situational awareness and immediate contact with colleagues and support personnel. Learn in this case study linked below how Council Lead Partner Verizon worked with Charleston, S.C. to...
Resources - 05/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management, Examples and case studies
With analytics technology from Council Global Partner IBM, the Durham, N.C., Police Department reduced the amount of violent crime in a two square mile region of the city by more than 50 percent during a four-year span from 2007-2011. Based on...
Resources - 03/18/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management