smart cities

AT&T planning San Jose 5G launch in first half of 2019 Noted tech hub San Jose, Calif., certainly has the attention of AT&T and Verizon. Today both companies announced agreements …

Badger Meter will explore ways to offer water metering solutions via AT&T’s network   U.S. firm Badger Meter announced it has joined the AT&T Smart City Alliance to explore several …

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AT&T has agreed with Nokia to use the Finnish vendor’s ‘worldwide IoT network grid’ (WING) to offer enterprise customers global IoT connectivity. Nokia’s WING service covers core network, dedicated IoT …

Former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg has announced packages of $70 million and $42 million respectively to help US smart cities fight climate change and develop their usage of …

Embedded processors have become smaller, more powerful and less expensive and are now shaping the development of the Internet of Things. Specifically, new IoT applications have benefited from embedded design, …

A great number of enterprise IoT projects remain stuck in pilots, put aside for another day. Before they even start, the challenge is how to make money from, at least …

MTN has selected Cisco’s Jasper Control Center platform as a launchpad for enterprise customers’ ‘internet of things’ (IoT) services on its mobile network in South Africa. MTN said interest in …

The ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market is moving towards new value-based and event-based pricing, led by smart cities and industrial operatives, according to Cisco. Until now, device-as-a-service, and latterly anonymised …

Comcast has hooked up the “epicentre of IoT” by making live its LoRaWAN-based machineQ service in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California. The launch, one of 10 new machineQ …

The Asia Pacific (APAC) region has several smart cities under development, mainly grouped in countries such as China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. Here we describe three of the region’s …

The European Commission (EC) is inviting municipal authorities to apply for €15,000 vouchers to finance Wi-Fi equipment and installation in public spaces. Vouchers worth €17.75 million in total will be …

The European Commission (EC) has established 5G test-beds in Barcelona in Spain and Bristol in the UK to trial of consumer oriented 5G applications. A further €2.2 million has been …

Washington-state tech giant Microsoft will set up house in Houston, Texas, as part of a long-term effort with the city authority to drive grass-roots innovation, stimulate the local economy, and …

Buckinghamshire County Council and Hertfordshire County Council have signed up to InterDigital mobility data engine oneTRANSPORT, taking its smart-city customer count to four in the UK. The duo will share …

Mastercard and Microsoft are to pool their payment, data analytics and cloud technologies to create a smart city “exchange” to help mayors, policy makers and urban planners tackle urban challenges …

Cisco appears to have found its rhythm in the enterprise IoT space by integrating communications technologies and data streams in its Kinetic platform for smart factories and smart cities. Enterprise …

The smart city agreement will initially focus on the deployment of a proof of concept in Las Vegas   Japan’s NTT Group and Dell Technologies have expanded their existing collaboration …

The state of Nuevo León in northern Mexico contributes eight per cent of the nation’s GDP with only four per cent of its population, according to the state government. It …

Dutch authorities are working with the Talking Traffic Partnership to deploy a nationwide smart traffic initiae   The Dutch government has implemented a smart traffic project in association with the …

Initiative will focus on applications including public safety, smart transit and autonomous cars Nokia and Smart City Capital are launching a joint program to help Canadian cities fund and reduce …

IoT platform provider Actility has been appointed by Öresundskraft, a regional energy and fibre broadband provider in Sweden, to help it build out an open-access LoRaWAN network, starting in the …

Smart Dublin, a smart-city cooperative combining the four local authorities in the Irish capital, has announced €1.2 million ($1.5m) of new funding for smart city projects. The new projects, split …

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 …

In the face of rising political disruption, the European Commission (EC) has in recent weeks redoubled its innovation schedule with new commitments to artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and digital healthcare …