Minnesota based Digi supplies routers, gateways and IoT modules for machine connectivity in a variety of applications in the smart city space, including in transit systems, street lights, smart waste bins, smart metering and waste-water systems.
As part of an investigation into the funding models...
What is a ‘smart city’, exactly? Is it a city with a neat collection of smart solutions, or is it one where everything works together to create new innovations?
As it stands, the term is attached to practically any urban centre with a network of...
Boise-based Cradlepoint has never sought out cities to sell to; the smart cities market has come to it. The fact is, some investments are easier to justify than others, it says.
“Our perspective is these very specific and very innovative use cases, which help cities...
Deutsche Telekom has unveiled a new smart city app, through which cities can pick and promote their smart city services. It has also announced a new smart city platform, for cities to pool their data, and a launch partner for it, in the city...
Spanish IoT maker Libelium, author of sensors and gateways for smart solutions, is a mainstay in the smart energy and smart cities spaces. Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with the company's chief executive, Alicia Asín, to discuss dominant and emerging business models in the...
Note: This is the full version of an article that appeared previously as an excerpt, found here; it also forms part of a major new report on the state of smart city funding, which can be found here.
Cardiff, the capital city in Wales, has...
Amsterdam, Barcelona and New York City have launched a smart cities coalition for digital rights to protect citizens’ data and digital rights.
The new 'cities coalition for digital rights' coalition said the same human rights people have offline must also be protected in the digital...
The City of San Diego has extended its smart street lighting network with another 1,000 sensor nodes, and new applications for parking, traffic and public safety.
San Diego has worked with Current, the GE-owned lighting firm, on the project. AT&T is providing the LTE connectivity...
Mastercard has confirmed 16 ‘cities’, or rather urban centres, as founding members of its City Possible programme, convened to foster public-private collaboration in the smart cities space.
The ‘cities’, varying in profile, joining the City Possible initiative are: Athens, Aurora (Illinois), Baltimore, Dubai, Dublin,...
Huawei has launched a digital platform for smart cities, claiming at the same time it is already working with 160 cities in over 40 countries on smart city solutions.
Huawei called it the first “full-stack digital platform”, bringing together cloud, connectivity, and device technologies. The...
The City of Delft, in the Netherlands, has appointed Dell EMC and Nokia as the leading parties in a public-private partnership to introduce semi-autonomous barges on the city’s underused canals to reduce traffic on its congested streets. The pair will provide compute, storage, data...
Cities should focus on what works, and hurry up, if they are to bring intelligence to their operations, Liberty Lake IoT provider Itron told Enterprise IoT Insights.
The company has just kicked off a smart city challenge in the UK, focused on the cities of...
Nine US cities will each receive $1 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies to implement smart solutions to tackle homelessness, drugs, mobility, climate change, and economic opportunity.
The charity, set up by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg (pictured), challenged city leaders in the US a year...
Greater Manchester in the UK has issued a progress report on its developing industrial strategy to harness technological innovation, in tandem with private enterprise and academic research, to deliver on stretching targets for energy, industry, and healthcare.
It said it will build on its various...
How do you make smart cities pay? One way is to reduce the cost of innovation, from the start, by inspiring and incentivising enterprises to collaborate on smart city solutions.
The rather woolly-sounding idea is to stimulate “value creation” around the role of technology in...
Finnish operator Elisa has signed a deal with the University of Helsinki to organise 5G technologies for air-quality monitoring and other smart city applications in large cities.
Elisa is already providing the university’s MegaSense research programme, looking to cover a dense urban area in Helsinki...
Cubit acquired Advanced Traffic Solutions for over $235 million
U.S. firm Cubic has entered into an agreement to acquire Advanced Traffic Solutions, which provides intelligent traffic solutions for the transportation industry, for about $235.7 million in a cash transaction.
Trafficware provides an integrated suite of software,...
Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...
Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...
There is massive disruption in the telecoms space, driven in the main part by the shift from proprietary hardware to commoditised hardware, and by the virtualisation of network functions in software.
We are seeing this in the core network, the radio network, and at the...
Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...
Under the agreement, NEC will adopt Arm’s Platform Security Architecture
Japanese tech giant NEC has announced a strategic collaboration with Arm to develop secure internet of things solutions for smart cities using artificial intelligence.
NEC said that ensuring the security of IoT connected devices is a...
Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...
Wi-SUN has been quietly succeeding in the smart utilities and smart cities markets as an alternative for low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking like LoRa and Sigfox.
The open ‘wireless smart utility network’ (Wi-SUN) mesh protocol is based on the IEEE 802.15.4g SUN standard, approved in March...
