Driverless cars will be on UK roads within five years. So says two thirds (65 per cent) of senior industry leaders in the UK, working at the crossover of technology and transport.
Future transport collective, the Smart Mobility Living Lab: London (SMLL), polled 250 senior...
Cisco has reorganised its innovation team as a function of its engineering department, rather than its strategy unit, to drive commercial results from its more pioneering work around technologies like 5G, blockchain, and augmented reality (AR), and its innovation work in the smart cities,...
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...
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...
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,...
Cisco has said its so-called ‘platform-of-platforms’ has been proven as “procurable and replicable,” as Manchester’s ground-breaking CityVerve smart city pilot in the UK gets set to wind up after two years. Cisco will develop a commercial proposition for cities out of the final ashes...
Manchester city council in the UK has deployed a new smart city lighting system as part of its continuing CityVerve project, led by Cisco. The new lighting system can be fitted retroactively to existing infrastructure. Cisco has managed the installation with the council, in...
