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The purpose of this Compendium is to provide policy makers, academicians, industry and all other stakeholders interested in 'Smart Cities' a collection of different types of resources pertaining to smart cities. It is a supplementary resource...
Resources - 10/15/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Responsibility areas, Built environment, Economic development, Examples and case studies, Research, publications and web sites
Seoul’s problem with seemingly constantly overflowing public trash bins seemed insurmountable no matter how many times waste was collected during the day. The solution the city government chose was Clean Cubes from Council Associate Partner Ecube...
Resources - 10/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management, Examples and case studies
Smart cities aim to reduce anticipated complexities and expenses that accompany future urbanization. Hence, integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), energy efficiency and sustainability form the backbone of these cities. For...
Resources - 09/26/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Computing resources, Examples and case studies, Visioning and roadmapping tools
A 'Smart City' is one that has processes in place to make service delivery better, faster and cheaper. Many times, the application of a new technology will provide this edge, but sometimes it is a low-tech solution that best meets the 'better,...
Resources - 09/18/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Built environment, Smart City Examples, Examples and case studies
In this Microsoft in Education video, a West Palm Beach, Florida middle school and a school in Oulu, Finland share their thoughts on using the Yammer private social media network and Corinth Classroom's interactive models for an international and...
Resources - 09/12/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Connectivity, Examples and case studies
Odense Municipality in Denmark wanted a way to streamline its governmental organization and replace an outdated email solution. The city needed a platform for communicating and collaborating that was easy and intuitive for both users and...
Resources - 08/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
Spring rains and snowmelt pour into the rivers and reservoirs that feed the Calgary’s water supply. As a result, downtown businesses and residents are faced with unpredictable floods that could do millions of dollars of damage. Read in this case...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources, Examples and case studies
How do you extend your reach, both locally and globally, while tightening your budget? For Edinburgh Napier University the answer is in bridging the gap between campuses, each approximately three miles apart. Without online collaboration tools, a...
Resources - 07/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
Property managers for Atlantic Station, a mixed-use complex in midtown Atlanta, GA, wanted instant and efficient data access to the energy measurements of each structure in the complex for billing purposes. Read about the solution they chose from...
Resources - 07/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
Hospitals are under enormous pressure to keep their costs down and improve the bottom line. They’re looking for ways to achieve greater operating efficiency to reduce costs. The “smart” bedside terminal can address most of these challenges. This all...
Resources - 06/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
Emerald ash borer infestation was detected for the first time in Canada in 2002 and in Quebec in 2008. According to Natural Resources Canada, “Canadian Forestry Service scientists estimate that the costs to Canadian municipalities for the treatment...
Resources - 06/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
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
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
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
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
Ten years ago, Gresham, Oregon's wastewater treatment plant was the city's largest consumer of energy. Now, as you'll read in the case study linked below from Council Associate Partner Veolia, the plant is making as much electricity as it consumes...
Resources - 04/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Examples and case studies
The Brazilian municipality of Bauru -- where soccer superstar Pelé grew up -- takes on high maintenance costs, crash safety and energy savings all in one brilliant play. Read in the case study from Council Lead Partner GE linked below how installing...
Resources - 04/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Examples and case studies
Transport for London (TfL) first introduced contactless payments on London buses in 2012 and two years later extended them to cover all modes of travel on the world’s largest contactless pay-as-you-go network – covering bus, rail, Tube and tram....
Resources - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Payments, Transportation, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
When Kanaiwa Hospital in Kanazawa, Japan, decided to introduce a comprehensive electronic health records system, it needed a smooth transition from its old paper record-keeping as well as a "non-stop" network to support the new system. In the case...
Resources - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
Listen to this brief video to hear John Ravitz from the American Red Cross talk about how Council Lead Partner MasterCard-branded prepaid client assistance cards helped people who were driven from their homes by a major fire.
Resources - 04/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Payments, Public safety and security, Examples and case studies
At the May 2013 World Economic Forum on Africa, the Nigerian National Identity Management Commission and Council Lead Partner MasterCard announced the planned issuance of 13 million National Identity Smart Cards as a pilot program. The case study...
Resources - 04/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Payments, Connectivity, Security and privacy, Examples and case studies
New Taipei city government began constructing and integrating the public cloud and service cloud, not only to strengthen city government operations and that of its subordinate agencies, but also to determine public sentiment regarding government...
Resources - 04/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
The city of Fès, Morocco, needed a way to more clearly quantify the needs of its citizens and the associated performance of its agencies. Because of the city’s strong leadership and its demonstrated commitment to IT innovation, the African...
Resources - 04/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Examples and case studies
The city of Redmond, Washington implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for public-sector organizations to streamline operations and empower employees with meaningful data. Learn in this case study from Council Lead Partner Microsoft about the...
Resources - 04/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Finance and procurement, Examples and case studies
Leeds Teaching Hospitals, one of the largest providers of emergency care services in Europe, wanted to gain better access to data so that it could identify trends and improve services. Read in this case study how healthcare solutions provider...
Resources - 04/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management, Examples and case studies
When Bethpage Water District (BWD) began its quest to improve its water metering system three years ago, its primary motivations for upgrading from its touch-read system (circa 1988) to Council Associate Partner Badger Meter's Advanced Metering...
Resources - 03/16/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
Proactive water leak detection is one of the main goals in reducing non-revenue water (NRW) in urban water distribution networks. Read in the case study linked below how the water utilities of two cities in Israel are proactively monitoring their...
Resources - 03/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) has a long history of self-reliance when it comes to energy. Today, the campus produces 92% of its own energy. It’s striving to go further with a combination of new clean energy resources, additional...
Resources - 02/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Analytics, Computing resources, Examples and case studies
To ensure its ability to deliver clean, reliable, water to households and businesses, Yorkshire Water depends on having access to a large pool of data but found that it needed a more scalable technology infrastructure. Read in the case study linked...
Resources - 02/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management, Examples and case studies
The IT network at Shrewsburgy School, a boarding school in the UK, was not able to keep up with the demands being placed on it, particularly by its digitally experienced students who were expecting more and more of their devices and connectivity...
Resources - 02/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
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
The GreenLys smart-grid development project, comprising Lyon and Grenoble, serves as the experimental platform for innovative solutions from energy generation to consumption. Click for a brief case study from Council Associate Partner Schneider...
Resources - 01/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
Learn about the collaborative, multidisciplinary approach used in the 18-month smart city initiative in Hong Kong designed to tackle the management of waste, water, energy and air quality in this case study from Council Associate Partner Schneider...
Resources - 01/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Examples and case studies
Council Partners Schneider Electric, Cisco and Microsoft were among those whose expertise helped Spain's second largest city realize its vision of “a self-sufficient city" by leveraging smart technologies. Click the link below to learn more.
Resources - 01/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Examples and case studies
With a population of 235,000 and growing, there are many more streets in Laredo, Texas than during its frontier past. And that was a problem for the city's utility department. It was walking those streets to read 67,543 water meters – which took a...
Resources - 12/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
With an expanding population, the second largest city in Illinois wanted to improve building inspection communications for increased efficiency with leaner staffing levels. Read in the "NaviLine Helps Aurora Do More with Less" case study linked...
Resources - 10/07/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
Nestled in the Canadian Rockies, the remote town of Field relies on one 25-kV distribution feeder, provided by BC Hydro, to supply its 300 residents with power. But providing reliable power to Field is challenging. Read about the solution that...
Resources - 08/18/2014
Active Region(s): Main, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Examples and case studies
With a local developer intent on Wisconsin's first utility-scale solar farm in the city of Jefferson, a couple of major obstacles had to be overcome. Click the "Utility scale solar project" pdf link below to learn how Council Lead Partner S&C...
Resources - 08/18/2014
Active Region(s): Main, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Examples and case studies
The Albemarle Ibuprofen plant is an anchor of the economy in the Orangeburg, South Carolina area. But power outages were providing the facility's biggest headache. The outages created “serious production losses and waste generation...
Resources - 07/15/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Energy, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
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
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
Officials with the San Antonio, Texas Municipal Court system wanted to ease courtroom congestion with virtual transactions identical to that of the municipal court. Working with Council Global Partner Cisco, they opened up audio and video...
Resources - 04/22/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
Dallas Primary School in Melbourne, Australia decided to explore how Web 2.0 teaching and learning tools might help improve literacy skills. In one project, teachers devised an alternative learning program using Microsoft Research’s Kodu –a video...
Resources - 04/08/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Examples and case studies
New Zealand's Ashburton District Council wanted a modern, mobile computing platform for employees who provide frontline services. Before it deployed smartphones to mobile workers, the council subscribed to the Windows Intune PC and device management...
Resources - 03/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Data management, Security and privacy, Examples and case studies
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 University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France, is among Europe’s foremost research universities and is the second-largest university in France with some 43,000 students. The University’s Energy Department needed to better manage facility...
Resources - 03/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Computing resources, Data management, Examples and case studies
In a typical year, over 35 million passengers and 96 thousand tons of cargo pass through the Barcelona El Prat Airport. AENA is responsible for airport operations, and its smart airport solution boasts a dynamic, intelligent infrastructure. The...
Resources - 03/06/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
This information-packed paper from Council Lead Partner Alstom Grid explains how smart grids are paving the way for a fresh approach to urban development, leading to the emergence of a new concept in environmentally responsible smart cities. It...
Resources - 02/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, 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
We see it over and over again with each technology wave. The advent of personal computers (PCs) created an urgent need for PC management software. The growth of computer networking led to a need for network management software. And now the onslaught...
Resources - 05/31/2013
Active Region(s): Main, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Security and privacy, Examples and case studies