Only one smart city use case stands up to close scrutiny: smart street lighting. The business case for parking and garbage, the other functions in the holy trinity of smart city applications, is harder to make. And nothing else in the market even scans...
Civic operational intelligence is not the preserve of the world’s mega-cities, said Dutch lighting company Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, as it continued deployment of 5G street-lighting poles with American Tower in Huntington Beach, in California.
“Small and medium cities should not underestimate the opportunities they...
Two hours from Warsaw, the town of Kazimierz Dolny has hardly changed since the Renaissance, when it thrived as centre for the grain trade. T-Mobile Poland has just announced plans to make it the country’s “first multifaceted smart city”.
Deutsche Telekom, parent of T-Mobile Poland,...
Cameras as a sensor drives multiple smart city use cases
Adoption of smart city solutions is moving from limited pilot projects to larger scale implementation and, with 5G networks going live in the U.S. through the end of 2018, new types of high-bandwidth, latency-sensitive applications...
What are some of the challenges faced by local governments who want to find ways to make their cities smarter?
The barriers that stand in the way of smart city initiatives were a hot topic at the recent Smart Cities Week D.C. conference. Finding appropriate...
US carrier Verizon discovered the secret to smart-city building in Sacramento, in California, it says. “We tried it there first, and we’re now replicating it with a lot of cities,” explains Lani Ingram, the company’s vice president for smart communities.
The revelation for Verizon, as...
We have 12 years to save the planet, calculate scientists in the starkest warning yet that our chances of tackling climate change and averting disaster are slipping away. After 2030, its future is a gamble, relying on untested technologies and techniques, and the environmental...
Smart cities and vendors are navigating new technologies and relationships
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Public-private partnerships are seen as being key to smart city initiatives, and cities and vendors have to navigate -- and often, create -- new types of relationships, procurement processes and funding mechanisms that go...
The scramble for technology to create cleaner, safer, richer cities has intensified as funding models have started to take root. The fashion for smart city pilot tests has finished. The technology works, we are told. The last challenge is how to pay for them,...
Ford, Uber and Lyft have agreed to pool their road traffic data in an open platform available to public and private sector companies to improve mobility in and around cities.
The data platform, called SharedStreets, is designed to make it easier for the private sector to...
The first ‘robotic supermarket’ is set to open in Miami, Florida. The facility uses robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) to retrieve groceries from closely-stacked shelves and pack them into shopping bags. It can fulfil orders of up to 60 items in minutes, and deliver...
The telco already operates an IoT network based on LoRaWAN technology across New Zealand
New Zealand telecom operator Spark has switched on its second internet of things network, which brings LTE Cat-M1 to the carrier ’s 4G mobile network.
Spark said that the new IoT network...
Connected streetlights could alert public safety officials to car accidents
AT&T has a lot going on at the moment. In addition to working to meet its goal of launching commercial, mobile 5G services in a dozen cities by the end of the year, AT&T is...
Energy giant BP and car maker Honda have joined with insurance companies Aviva and Hastings Direct to fund a new three-year smart mobility pilot in London to develop and test new transport technologies, road services, and business models.
The programme will be managed by UK...
Under the contract, the French IoT specialist will install up to 500 gateways across Scotland
French internet of things specialist Kerlink has been selected as the provider of hardware and software for IoT Scotland, which is a nationwide, low-power, wide-area network.
Under the project, Kerlink will...
The global market for smart city platforms will reach $755 million by 2027, according to new research, and enable cities to deliver services to their citizens in the manner of internet giants like Uber, Airbnb, Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
Smart city platforms provide the cities...
US carrier AT&T is in talks with the city of Los Angeles about a public-private partnership to deploy small cells, 5G connectivity, and internet-of-things technologies in order to enhance civic operations.
AT&T said the deal will make the city “one of the smartest” in America.
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Huawei is collaborating with the German cty of Duisburg, the hub for China's trade with Europe, to implement 5G and IoT technologies. The Chinese vendor said it will provide the city, located in the west of Germany, with infrastructure solutions to underpin its initiatives...
Las Vegas, in Nevada, is using artificial intelligence to detect and fix issues within its IT systems, including those underpinning its various smart city projects. California-based FixStream said its deal with Las Vegas is the first implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) for IT operations...
A research study revealed that North America will have 14.4 million connected streetlights by 2023
Miami is the world’s number one city in terms of connected streetlights deployment according to a recent study by research firm IoT Analytics.
Converting legacy streetlights into connected LED or connected...
As the summer ends, the weather worsens. For some, the changing seasons bring devastating storms. Their shadows grow ever-longer, and the risk to life grows ever-higher. Last year (2017) saw some of the worst natural disasters on record, with earthquakes, fires, flooding and landslides.
By...
We all have the experience of driving around looking for a parking place, whether we are attending a conference or shopping downtown. It is not just time-consuming and frustrating, but if you add up all the cars, there is also a lot of fuel...
UK start-up Skyports is ramping up activity in the US as it seeks to establish an international network of helipads for flying taxis and drone deliveries.
Skyports has so far secured 15 rooftops in London as ‘vertipads’ for passenger and cargo drones. It is currently...
Lenovo and Pivot3, a provider of ‘hyper-converged infrastructure’ solutions, have struck a deal to develop and sell edge computing products for smart city security. The city of Bogota, in Colombia, has already hooked up 3,000 surveillance cameras to their new system.
Much of the growth...
