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That’s exactly what Council member IBM did in conjunction with its Smarter Cities Challenge grant program, a multi-year, 100- plus city initiative designed to get them started on ambitious projects. IBM has donated millions of dollars in employees’...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 12/03/2015
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When Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (KC BPU) installed a water and electric AMI system in 2013, in addition to improving service and reliability, they hoped to empower customers to be wiser energy and water consumers. That goal prompted the...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 12/03/2015
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One of the roles of Direction Générale de Modernisation de l’État (DGME), the French agency responsible for modernization, is guiding French ministries and agencies in their e-government initiatives.The problem DGME faced in the past was that many...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 12/02/2015
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As a leader in public sector IT, the London Borough of Newham wanted to improve its service delivery and digital engagement with citizens, while reducing costs. By sharing services with the neighboring local authority of Havering, Newham is...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 12/02/2015
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California utility companies are required to meet one-third of the state’s electricity needs with power produced by renewable generation sources by 2020. But the high penetration of renewable generation has created concerns regarding grid...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/11/2015
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With over 3.9 million citizens and more than 500 administered institutions and schools, New Taipei city government began constructing and integrating the public cloud and service cloud, not only to strengthen city government operations and...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/11/2015
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Roy Buol will tell you that the theme of making Dubuque a more sustainable city was central to his successful run for mayor in 2005. He’ll tell you how much the issue resonated with the thousands of voters he spoke with in the course of...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/11/2015
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Portland, Oregon-based EcoDistricts seeks to inspire cities to remake themselves from the neighborhoods up. The nonprofit organization works with city builders and entrepreneurs, policymakers and innovators to create vibrant...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/11/2015
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With the ability to visualize infrastructure and analyze maintenance costs - including how long major assets such as roads or pipes will last - cities can save time and money in the planning process and millions in construction and maintenance...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/11/2015
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As in any modern city, the government of Fès must support a host of civic needs, manage its budget and attract private and foreign investment, all while coping with a population migration from rural areas to the urban core. In 2013, the...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/11/2015
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The city of Redmond, Washington – home to Council member Microsoft’s corporate campus and a number of the software giant’s partner companies – is proud of its responsiveness and the wide range of services it offers to constituents. Aiming to...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/11/2015
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King Township, in Ontario, Canada, became one of the first municipalities in Canada with a fully integrated mobile app that works in conjunction with its web portal and online services to provide Anytime, Anywhere and Any Device access to...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/11/2015
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The Community Geomatics Centre (CGC) is a division of the nonprofit Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre, a Council Advisor located in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The CGC is unique in Canada and promotes and establishes partnerships and...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Established under Thailand’s Ministry of Justice, the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is a national law enforcement agency dedicated to stopping serious criminal activity. DSI needed better tools for mining large sets of structured...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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On March 11, 2004, Madrid suffered a major terror attack when several commuter trains were bombed. As with the 9/11 attacks in the United States, this tragic incident highlighted the need for greater coordination among first responders.“The...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Like many cities, Hayward, California’s IT department faces growing demand for services while budgetary resources recede.Located in California’s Bay Area, Hayward has a population approaching 150,000 and is the third largest city in Alameda...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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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...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Wireless mesh communications technology from Smart Cities Council member ABB deployed in Rock Hill, South Carolina allows city police officers to spend two more hours per day in the field.Rock Hill fire department vehicles are equipped with...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Cambridgeshire Constabulary is an English force of around 1,400 officers and 200 police community support officers responsible for an area of approximately 3,500 kilometers and a population of 0.7 million.Cambridgeshire officers depended on...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Like many cities, Charleston, South Carolina, faced a need to improve its public safety-related IT and communications infrastructure to help deliver more efficient public safety services for its fast-growing population. Above all,...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Bradford Royal Infirmary and St. Luke’s Hospital are teaching hospitals in the United Kingdom that serve the healthcare needs of 500,000 citizens, of which 22% are from black or minority ethnic (BME) origins. Many of them do not speak or understand...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Consider a cloud computing framework. Migrating to a new centralized IT infrastructure based on a private cloud model is expected to save Tainan City US$344,000 per year and improve educational resources in classrooms.Tainan City...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Based in Bolton, England, Ascribe is a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) and clinically focused IT solutions and services for the healthcare industry. Ascribe estimates that 82% of National Health Service (NHS) trusts in the United...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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When Kanaiwa Hospital in Kanazawa, Japan, decided to introduce a comprehensive electronic health records (EHR) system, it needed a smooth transition from its old paper record-keeping as well as a “non-stop” network to support the new system....
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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For the Hamilton County, Tennessee Department of Education, the essence of educational intelligence is insight through granularity. And it’s one reason the county’s graduation rate has increased and standardized test scores are up too.The...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Wi-Fi is as much a part of university life as classes and exams. Originating as a “hotspot” accessory, wireless networking has become a baseline technology that students expect. And once installed campus-wide, WLANs are swamped, with more than...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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The Community Geomatics Centre (CGC) is a division of the nonprofit Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre, a Council Advisor located in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The CGC promotes partnerships and technological means to efficiently share...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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When the city of Ballarat in New South Wales, Australia was chosen as one of 16 IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grant recipients in 2014, it had access to five of IBM’s top experts, who spent three weeks living there and immersed in the city to...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Established in 1755 as a colonial city of New Spain, Laredo, Texas has a history as colorful as the seven different flags which have flown over it. Today it stands on the north bank of the Rio Grande as the U.S. principal port of entry into...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Ten years ago, the wastewater treatment plant in Gresham, Oregon was the city’s biggest energy-consumer,. But a lot has changed since then.The plant is now making the same amount of electricity as it consumes in a year, using biosolids from...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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San Diego faced a major challenge: It wanted to promote and support water conservation through accurate consumption targeting, tracking and billing, while dealing with the daunting task of working with many local agencies, many different data...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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The Long Beach, California water department is responsible for keeping the city’s 487,000 residents adequately supplied with clean, good-tasting water. It is also responsible for the safe delivery of wastewater to its nearby sewage treatment...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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The Royal Commission for Jubail is a special-purpose government agency empowered to develop and operate industrial cities. Council member Bechtel has provided engineering and construction management services to the Royal Commission since its...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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California Natural Resources Agency manages the state’s natural resources, including water. One of its largest departments is the Department of Water Resources (DWR), with about 3,500 employees. DWR supplies and manages the water delivery...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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The Netherlands is working with Council member IBM to transform flood control and the entire Dutch water system. The need is high. Of the total Dutch population, 66% live in flood-prone areas. More than 4,000 square miles (26% of the country)...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Syndicat Mixte Autolib is an electric car-sharing program established by the city of Paris and 46 surrounding municipalities to relieve traffic congestion, reduce noise and air pollution and provide people with more flexible transit options....
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Council member Cisco has teamed with the city of Nice, France, to pilot a next-generation smart street they are calling “Connected Boulevard.”Boulevard Victor Hugo, located in the center of Nice, is host of the proof-of-concept zone and almost...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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In 1998, Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation in Bentonville, Ark., installed one of the world’s first IntelliTeam® Automatic Restoration Systems at the then-new Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. The system from Council member S&C...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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To complete the 120-kilometer Beijing-to-Tianjin line in time for the 2008 Olympic Games, the China Ministry of Railways selected solutions from Council member Schneider Electric to help run its passenger information system. The...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Unlike some other major cities, Helsinki has a transportation system that is operated by multiple vendors rather than a single private company or municipal department. So although bus company Helsingin Bussiliikenne Oy (HelB) is fully owned by...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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With the goal of improving rail capacity, reducing traffic congestion and reducing public transit travel times in London, Crossrail Ltd and Transport for London (TfL) –the companies responsible for delivery and rail operations in London,...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Leicester City Council provides universal public services to the largest city in the East Midlands, UK, with a population of more than 300,000.Connect devices with a multi-service communications system. The Leicester City Council’s...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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In 2013, Silicon Valley Power (SVP) opened up its existing Tropos wireless communications network provided by Smart Cities Council member ABB to providefree public outdoor WiFi access throughout the city of Santa Clara. Residents and visitors...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/10/2015
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Amsterdam, the financial and cultural capital of the Netherlands, strives to be one of Europe’s greenest, most sustainable cities while continuing to maintain economic growth. Over the past decade, the city developed a plan for collaborating,...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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Nagahama City is located in the Shiga Prefecture of Japan. In 2006, Nagahama City, Asai Town and Biwa Town were merged into one city. Then in 2010, the city merged with a further six municipalities. All of these now form the current Nagahama...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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Charlotte, NC-based Duke Energy – along with the local organization Charlotte Center City Partners – launched a new partnership called Envision Charlotte in 2010. It’s a rare public-private partnership between heads of business, building...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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Like many developed areas, there are traffic jams in Qatar that not only aggravate commuters but can also be costly for companies with fleet vehicles that move goods and services around the region.Enhancing mobility. Smart Fleet combines...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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Belfast Health and Social Care Trust operates in Northern Ireland through a network of six organizations and more than 100 physical locations with an annual budget of about £1 billion (US$1.5 billion) and a staff of around 20,000. It wanted to...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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Despite being one of the most advanced cities in the world, New York City has an antiquated and broken communications infrastructure with approximately 7,500 payphones located throughout its five boroughs. The city recognized an opportunity to...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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When energy demand is high and supply is short, San Francisco, California-based Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) offers financial incentives to companies that reduce their load in response to a request.NetApp, a Sunnyvale,...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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In 2011 the Electric Power Board (EPB) installed a smart grid in Chattanooga, Tennessee that has achieved a 55% reduction in outage time. The area’s businesses will save an estimated $40-$45 million a year, while the overall savings are likely...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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A consortium of companies is taking energy conservation to the next level by creating an entire eco-minded neighborhood just outside of Paris, France.Consider a cloud computing framework. IssyGrid collects energy consumption data and processes...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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Microgrids have been called “the impatient upstarts of our energy future”. They are independent, small-scale electricity systems for communities, towns, campuses and even individuals, delivering integrated distributed renewable energy,...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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9REN Group designs, develops, builds and operates renewable turnkey power plants using photovoltaics, solar thermal energy and wind. The Spanish company operates some 570 photovoltaic installations, mainly in Spain and Italy. In addition to...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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Siemens teamed with Duke Energy to demonstrate the results of an 18-month effort to reduce the cost and expand electric vehicle charging technologies.Council member Siemens provided the first Underwriters Laboratories (UL) approved residential...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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Pepco Holdings needed to enhance its electrical system in the Washington, D.C. area. The regulated electric utility turned to Council member Black & Veatch for improvement to a substation and underground transmission system. The...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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In 2013, GE and Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) celebrated completion of Energy Smart Florida (ESF), an initiative implemented to modernize the electric grid and build out a more reliable and efficient electrical...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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Eight Spanish cities reduced their electricity consumption by 64% and saved over 4,300 tonnes of C02 in 2014, thanks to efficient street lighting systems and technologies that both cut costs and benefit the environment.According to ...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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As the first American utility to receive smart grid stimulus funding and as the first to be “completely operational with smart grid technology,” Glendale Water and Power (GWP), located in Southern California, is a bit of a smart grid...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/09/2015
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An “intervention” staged at a long-abandoned building in Molise, Italy was designed to bring it up to current energy efficiency standards and to give it a useful life again.Toward that end,...
Readiness Guide Case Studies - 11/07/2015
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