Companies target industrial internet of things
Huawei is partnering with GE to develop solutions for the industrial internet of things. The two companies announced their partnership in Shanghai, where GE is launching an incubator for startups and software developers focused on connected machines.
The companies said...
Chinese vendor sees increasing penetration for its smart city solutions including government, grid and transport applications
Huawei is focusing on its safe city initiatives as the initial step before implementing large-scale smart city deployments, Joe So, head of Huawei’s global smart city initiatives, told Industrial IoT...
The region ended 2015 with an installed base of 5.8 million fleet management systems; projected to pass 12.7 million by 2020
North America is expected to reach 12.7 million active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in 2020, according to a recent study...
Federal leaders outline 'must dos' for smart city success
Innovation is taking place at the local level. Across the U.S., cities are striving to become “smart cities,” which in its simplest form means applying information and communications technologies to urban challenges. While it is easy...
For the advertising industry, the smart city may be a better medium than the smartphone
As more urban infrastructure gets connected, city mayors may find advertising executives beating a path to their doors. That’s because the advertising industry has a serious problem – it needs...
People have always sought to make sense of the environment and utilize resources to enhance their safety, comfort, and wellbeing. It is no different in the growing world of IoT and the evolution of how brick-and-mortar buildings are moving from solely providing shelter to...
What are the underlying factors driving the adoption of smart city solutions?
How can smart city advocates overcome the inertia that can paralyze urban administrations? As in any large organizations with long standing vested interests and many different calls on their resources, municipalities tend to...
In addition to smart city deployments, ZTE launches government-oriented IoT application with China Mobile
Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer ZTE has been involved in more than 150 smart city projects across China, the company’s CIO and chairman of ZTESoft, Chen Jie told reporters.
“We have a very...
The recent Smart Cities Innovation Summit in Austin, Texas, brought smart city stakeholders from the public and private sectors to discuss key drivers of intelligent urban living.
Obviously the underlying connectivity and attendant services and applications are what citizens will see as creating more livable...
$40 million in Smart City Challenge funding to support transportation
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown on Tuesday said Columbus, Ohio, was the winner of the Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge; the winning city is set to receive $40 million in federal dollars plus another $10...
Connected vehicles are part of the Huawei smart city portfolio
Chinese ICT services provider Huawei signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SamTech Middle East, a regional systems integrator specializing in smart vehicle tracking systems.
Under the terms of the deal, SamTech will develop customized applications...
Stockholm tops Ericsson’s Networked Society City Index 2016, a global smart city index measuring both sustainable urban development and ICT maturity in 41 cities around the world.
Ericsson’s global smart city league table, the Networked Society City Index 2016, ranked Stockholm as the leading...
The Smart Cities Innovation Summit in Austin, Texas brought together a broad spectrum of professionals, each with their own experiences and perspectives. The result was a fascinating menagerie of conversations that spanned lessons from the past and provided speculation on the future of Smart...
'Secure connectivity' is the common thread in smart city technologies
AUSTIN, Texas--With an addressable market comprising virtually every city and town on the planet, carriers and service providers are adapting existing product lines and creating new solutions to address the smart city. AT&T is no...
If they are to successfully cut across silos, smart city solutions need to be championed by a CIO with a strategic mandate
In an ideal world, a smart city will deploy connected sensors that can capture and combine real-time data on everything from air pollution...
Gaia Smart Cities acquired the IoT unit of local firm
Indian startup Gaia Smart Cities acquired compatriot firm netCOR Solutions’s Internet of Things (IoT) division.
Under the terms of the agreement, netCOR Solutions will invest in Gaia Smart Cities to support the development of the firm.
Gaia said...
Mobile edge computing, partner ecosystems will be key to the future of smart cities, experts say
AUSTIN, Texas—Tyson Tuttle, CEO of Silicon Labs and moderator of a panel this week at the Smart Cities Innovation Summit, says of smart cities, “The technology is there. That’s...
As a buyer of Internet of Things solutions, the smart city differs from enterprises in several subtle, but important, ways
IBM, Cisco, Accenture and other leading ICT companies have been trying to ignite the smart city market for more than a decade, but the deployment...
If traffic is the problem, smart cities should get people off the road, Bob Metcalfe says
AUSTIN, Texas—A speaker at the Smart Cities Innovation Summit on Tuesday appeared via video link, which is a harbinger of things to come, Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe said during...
AUSTIN, Texas--How can the federal government play an active role in driving the technology underlying smart city applications in a way that helps, rather than hinders, private sector R&D. That was among the questions discussed by panelists at the Smart Cities Innovation Summit.
Reginald Brothers,...
Intel to position itself as a leader within smart building technologies as it showcases a new SaaS smart building management platform.
Smart building technologies are set to transform the facilities industry, as building data is transformed into actionable information and automatization helps optimize the operations...
Honing one of the points he made last week during his final pitch to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Austin Mayor Steve Adler kicked off the Smart Cities Innovation Summit by stressing the importance of creating and sharing open, standardized data as the smart city...
The U.S. Department of Transportation, Vulcan Industries and AT&T will fund Smart City Challenge winner
Mayors of the seven finalist cities taking part in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge made clear that, if their city wins, the $40 million in federal funding...
Imagining the ‘city of the future’ is becoming easier to do thanks to recent examples of smart cities innovation. Common urban challenges like traffic, energy and waste reduction are all targets for technology-based solutions. The internet of things (IoT) is at the center of...
