HOUSTON--Carriers, vendors and municipalities around the world are embracing smart city technology--sensors, cameras, smart meters and other IoT devices--meant to drive urban quality-of-life. As cities gain intelligence and process become automated, there's the opportunity to gain efficiency while creating new revenue streams. But, before...
Networked devices are at the heart of building smarter cities. Connecting a smartphone to the Internet is one thing, but connecting an industrial asset—like a transformer or a stop light—is another. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and the connection among industrial devices are...
Huawei is showcasing four safe city solutions at GITEX event
Chinese ICT services provider Huawei has signed a long-term collaboration agreement with the Dubai Police to develop and deploy a Safe City Innovation Center for Dubai’s security forces.
Dubai Police and Huawei are exhibiting four advanced safe city solutions on...
Networked devices are at the heart of building smarter cities. Connecting a smart phone to the Internet is one thing, but connecting an industrial asset—like a transformer or a stop light—is another. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and the connection among industrial devices...
The new smart city initiative will be located between Seoul and Incheon
Dubai Holding has launched its smart city initiative in Korea which will cover an area of 4.7 square kilometers, and will be located between the two metropolitan cities of Seoul and Incheon.
Under the...
The initiative includes Dutch knowledge centers and Silicon Valley-based firms
The Netherlands has signed an agreement with the government of California for the development of smart cities initiatives, which have been priorities for the respective country and state leaders since 2013.
The S4C project set up...
Building 100 smart cities in India could cost $31 billion through 2020, but expected benefits in terms of gross domestic product contribution and jobs should far outweigh this huge investment.
To cope with the challenge of rapid urbanization, the government of India launched in June...
Exploring smart city IoT technologies and deployments
Schenectady, N.Y. is one of many cities across the country seeking to improve its operations and efficiency through internet of things deployments. With a population of about 65,000 people, the city is exploring smart lighting, a wireless network, and various...
Nokia will test several applications under this smart city program
Finnish vendor Nokia has joined the Bristol Is Open initiative, a program which seeks to implement smart city strategies for the UK city.
Bristol Is Open (BIO) seeks to transform the city into a dynamic test bed...
Bosch hosted its Bosch Connected World conference in Chicago last week where it showed off its position within industrial IoT. The event was highlighted by news that Bosch would team with GE to bring interoperability between the two manufacturer's IoT platforms. Partnerships were the...
U.S.-based Ingenu has deployed a LPWA IoT network in South Africa, and announced a new smart city platform.
Ingenu announced the deployment of a Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Internet of Things (IoT) network using the company’s proprietary Random Phase Multiple Access (RPMA) technology in...
Mike Zeto discusses AT&T's priorities during Smart Cities Week
WASHINGTON--One year into running a dedicated smart cities business unit, General Manager Mike Zeto discussed the operation, lessons learned and priorities going into 2017 during the Smart Cities Week event.
On the year old business unit: "It...
The industrial IoT has already proven its versatility with deployments going live in a number of enterprises, showing off dozens of different use cases. But a few key uses consistently present themselves within the same trade, and even throughout different industries.
Top 5 industrial IoT...
A fleet of autonomous boats will start navigating the canals of Amsterdam next year following a research collaboration between AMS and MIT.
The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) in the Netherlands and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S. have joined...
Lyft co-founder and president John Zimmer expects self-driving cars to account for the majority of the company’s rides within five years.
Within five years, self-driving cars will account for the majority of ride-hailing company Lyft’s rides across the U.S. and, by 2025, private people...
Huawei believes this cooperation agreement will offer enhanced smart city solutions
Chinese ICT services provider Huawei and French company Veolia recently signed an agreement to collaborate on smart city initiatives.
Under the terms of the deal, the two companies will work together to improve the quality of...
AUSTIN--Chris Hoffman, CEO of RYNO Motors, spoke about his single-wheeled motorcycle and vision for a future with vending machine-like on-demand car rental stations at the Start@ETS event put on by ZPryme.
Hoffman was challenged by his daughter to create a single-wheeled motorcycle after seeing one in a...
By signing the “Montevideo Declaration”, policy makers from around the world made smart cities a core element in reaching the U.N.’s sustainable development goals.
With 70 percent of the world population expected to be living in cities by 2050, smart cities are increasingly seen as...
Cities across the world face significant challenges stemming from urbanization, demographic change, changing lifestyles and climate change. These challenges, which have ushered in a focus on smart cities and enabling technologies, are illustrated in the UN-Habitat’s World Cities Report for 2016:
Urbanization: The urban...
The alliance includes internet of things players, corporations and government
An alliance of internet of things (IoT) industry players, corporations and government, has officially launched Hypercat Australia as a technology standard to support the development of smart cities.
Hypercat is a U.K.-developed alliance and standard that...
Municipal leaders across the U.S. are quickly aligning around the concept of how to elevate their city to be a smart city. In its most basic form this means leveraging technology to make cities more effective, efficient and sustainable. Around the world, urban areas...
The Chinese city is collaborating with local vendor ZTE in a number of smart city initiatives
The city of Yinchuan, in China, is known to be the most advanced city in the Asian nation in terms of the development and implementation of smart city initiatives.
In...
Connecthings CEO: Smart cities can learn lesson from missteps of smart home market
Can you believe that next year marks the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the first iPhone? It wasn’t the first smartphone (a moment of silence, please, for devices like the Palm...
Despite having ongoing deployments in over 100 cities, Huawei said it will take time until the smart city truly becomes a reality.
Huawei smart city service is being deployed in more than 100 cities in over 40 countries in the world, said Joe So, chief...
