Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost jobs during the next two decades, except in manufacturing, transport and city administration. New research finds digital factories, intelligent mobility and smart cities will cause massive disruption in the period to 2037 with as many as one in four...
By the Köln Ost junction on the A3 motorway in the North Rhine-Westphalia region in Germany, a group of engineers has mocked-up a 25,000 square-metre roadway network with a mash-up of internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in order to find ways to predict faults and failures...
In the first phase of its Air Map Korea project, the telco has installed monitors at 1,500 telecom sites
Korean telecom operators KT has been using technologies such as the internet of things (IoT) and big data analytics to monitor and analyze air quality 24...
The city of Newcastle in the UK will procure a “technological partner” after the summer to set down the infrastructure to help it develop its connectivity and sensor capabilities and make it the “UK’s leading smart city,” it has said. Cisco appears to be...
The industrial internet-of-things (IoT) is at the heart of France’s new 5G roadmap, unveiled late yesterday by the French electronic communications and postal regulatory authority (Arcep). The new plan, presented by Arcep chair Sébastien Soriano, flanked by secretaries of state for economic affairs and...
The European market for cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communications will grow to 416.5 million connections by 2023, from 86 million at the end of 2017, according to ABI Research. This growth, of 384 per cent, will come with the launch of new internet-of-things (IoT) based...
Siemens said the lack of planning in this field could create negative social and economic effects
Cities will need to anticipate and tackle upcoming changes to their infrastructures early in order to get ready for the advent of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV), according to...
The latest index of countries’ progress against the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes for grim reading. No country is on track to achieve the targets, set out by the UN and ratified by its member states in 2015 as a plan to end...
Forget the notion of an integrated smart city platform for a moment, says Jonathan Reichental chief information officer for the city of Palo Alto in the US. “What does a park system, a police system, and a library system even have in common?”
We have...
Singapore's industrial development agency JTC has appointed engineering group ST Engineering to build an open smart city platform for its green-field Punggol Digital District (PDD) project, a new tech hub in the north of the city-state, being constructed as a showcase for its Smart...
Siemens has released a cloud-based software suite to help cities manage air pollution. Its new City Air Management (CyAM) solution, based on its MindSphere internet-of-things (IoT) platform, is the “smartest tool available for cities to improve their air quality,” the German industrial giant declared.
CyAM,...
A report by Navigant Research said the Asian country ended March with a total of 496 million installed smart meters
China continues to lead the global smart meter market with 496 million meters installed at the end of the first quarter of 2018, according to...
The problem with smart cities is no one wants to pay for them. That’s the challenge for Manchester, now, having just completed a ground-breaking two-year smart-city pilot, CityVerve, which appears to have much to recommend it, but nothing to prove it. CityVerve was designed...
One of the busiest train stations in the world is New York’s Grand Central terminus. In peak hours around 1,000 people arrive at Grand Central every single minute and head out into the great metropolis. Impressive numbers, especially from a smart city perspective because...
New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, we consider the second of these measures - the top 10 smart cities, globally,...
New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, we consider the fist of these measures - the top 10 smart cities, globally,...
Taiwanese telco will deploy 5G base stations and smart sensors in streetlights and traffic signals
Taiwanese telecommunications firm Chunghwa Telecom signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Taipei city government for the development of smart city applications and internet of things (IoT) infrastructure in...
Cisco and Samsung have completed the first successful 5G fixed-wireless tests on Orange’s live network in Romania. The fixed-wireless access (FWA) tests, in the 26 GHz band, have verified a number of smart city use cases, the trio said.
The trial started on June 1,...
If happiness is a measure that considers one’s health, lifestyle, security and sociability in any way, then smart cities can surely make us happier. New research by the McKinsey Global Institute says as much.
After all, the application of technology in intensifying urban centres is...
The autonomous bus trial, which will be split into two different phases, will be launched this month
Transit agency Capital Metro announced plans to explore automated vehicle (AV) technology in buses across the city of Austin, Texas, through evaluation demonstrations.
AV tests are expected to be...
Nick Chrissos takes a breather from a packed agenda at the CityVerve 'market-place' in Manchester, at the end of last month. Innovate UK has just told a conference room the CityVerve project, designed and co-funded by the UK government as the definitive UK smart...
Nokia and Tencent will make research into 5G-enabled internet-of-things (IoT) applications for industry verticals including transportation, energy and manufacturing a major part of their new collaboration in China, based out of a new test lab in Shenzhen.
The pair said at Mobile World Congress in...
At the end of last summer, Enterprise IoT Insights compiled a state-of-the-market report on smart cities, considering the entire sector through the lens of four unique approaches to smart-city building. These varied approaches were brought to life in Gaudalajara in Mexico, Barcelona in Spain,...
Car maker Hyundai has bought a stake in Israeli vehicle-to-everything (V2X) chipset provider Autotalks. The pair will work together to accelerate deployment of “next generation chipsets” for connected cars, the South Korean firm said.
The size of the investment has not been disclosed. Reuters has...
