The Vision Zero concept remains a favourite of smart cities and smart traffic systems, as we cover them, and a go-to policy for politicians seeking change in traffic-related planning. Put simply, it describes a vision of a road system where zero lives are lost....
Work is set to start on a new $7.5 billion smart city development in the Las Vegas Valley, which seeks to use advanced connectivity, automation, and analytics technologies to animate the site during both its initial six-year construction and its final operation as an...
European law makers must make good on the significant upswing in momentum among Europe-based car makers towards vehicle electrification by ensuring cities have proper infrastructure and incentives to change behaviour of motorists.
Car makers have earmarked €145 billion in electrification, but their success requires...
US mayors have signed a new resolution on data protection to push the US government to bring greater protection against the risks of cyberattacks on edge sensors associated with the deployment of smart city technologies.
Cyber-attacks on smart cities appear to have escalated, although...
Cities must use all new mobility options, starting with shared and electric vehicles, if they are to decrease vehicle emissions by as much as 95 per cent by 2050. Focus on autonomous vehicles should come after immediate groundwork has been laid with shared high...
A new blueprint for internet of things adoption by municipalities offers up three models for the ownership and operation of IoT networks for smart cities.
The Municipal IoT Blueprint report comes via the Wireless SuperCluster of the Global City Teams Challenge, operating under the auspices of...
A new blueprint for internet of things adoption by municipalities lays out half a dozen areas where IoT can offer benefits to cities.
The Municipal IoT Blueprint report comes via the Wireless SuperCluster of the Global City Teams Challenge, operating under the auspices of the...
Mobile service providers have started rolling out 5G wireless services this year, giving subscribers their first glimpse of this new technology. As 5G technology spreads, cities will leverage it to become “smarter.” A smarter city leverages technology to make life healthier and safer for...
There should be few excuses for cyber attacks, and the buck stops with senior managers for failing to prevent and minimise their impact, even as the volume of connected ‘things’ spirals upwards and the threat landscape spreads outwards.
This is the view of industry commentators,...
There should be few excuses for cyber attacks, and the buck stops with senior managers for failing to prevent and minimise their impact, even as the volume of connected ‘things’ spirals upwards and the threat landscape spreads outwards.
This is the view of industry commentators,...
Senet has announced a deal to integrate LoRaWAN connectivity with LoRa-based sensors from US equipment vendor Radio Bridge and smart cities solutions from Spanish IoT firm Wellness Telecom.
Radio Bridge has said it will offer customers the option to purchase LoRaWAN connectivity from Senet directly...
Annual revenue for the global smart city technology market will jump from $97.4 billion in 2019 to $263 billion by 2028, a rise of more than 150 per cent, with cumulative revenue expected to reach almost $1.7 trillion.
This is the forecast from analyst...
New 5G technologies will generate $17 trillion in economic growth in the period to 2035, with the initial stimulus coming from smart-city applications piggybacking on urban 5G rollouts. But operators' revenues from industrial 5G, hyped as the will not outpace revenues from consumer 5G...
How to move from limited smart cities pilots to scaled deployments
“Smart cities” is most certainly a nebulous term. At a high-level, it refers to a collection of use cases, things like public Wi-Fi, information kiosks, responsive lighting, traffic management, etc…, that, individually and collectively,...
AT&T has made climate data from the US Department of Energy available to public and private colleges and universities, as well as local governments, to use for climate risk analysis.
AT&T is working with the Argonne National Laboratory, a research laboratory run by the...
Two new announcements this week, by cities both sides of the the Atlantic, make clear, again, the case for smart street-lighting is undeniable.
In the US, the city of Syracuse in New York State has teamed with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to...
AT&T and San José, in California, have signed a deal worth an estimated $1 million to extend wi-fi coverage and build smart city infrastructure across 14 parks around the city. AT&T is also donating $200,000 to help stimulate community organisations to get citizens online
AT&T...
China accounted for 63% of the global installed base
of cellular IoT connections at the end of last year, according to a new research by
Swedish IoT analyst firm Berg Insight.
The report highlighted that the global number of
cellular IoT subscribers increased by 70% during 2018 to...
Smart cities and 5G are two of the hottest topics in tech today, and maybe the hottest topics in wireless tech (if IoT is considered a subset of one or both of these). But what is a smart city and how does 5G play...
Seven US cities have been recognised for their use of data to solve local issues and improve lives. Kansas City, Louisville, and Washington ranked highest of the seven. Arlington, Memphis, Philadelphia, and Scottsdale were also commended.
Bloomberg Philanthropies, the city-focused charity set up by Michael...
Eighteen months ago, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and leaders of Google-parent Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs announced the planned $1 billion redevelopment of Toronto's Quayside area. The idea was kit the area with smart city solutions covering everything from energy use to transportation, all...
The city of Reno, in Nevada, is using blockchain technology to validate data communications between autonomous vehicles and street infrastructure.
The University of Nevada and Reno’s Center for Applied Research (NCAR) have teamed up with local blockchain company Filament on the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) trial, which...
Huawei exec discusses U.S. governmental relations, 5G future
Q: Please tell me about your current role and what you enjoy most about your current job.
A: I have worked at Huawei for 25 years now, and am a shareholding employee. I have been elected as the...
Huawei has 40 5G contracts
Chinese vendor Huawei has already secured 40 contracts to build and operate 5G networks, the company’s rotating CEO, Ken Hu said. The announcement was made at a keynote speech at the vendor’s 2019 Global Analyst Summit at its headquarter in...
