A common language is required for how self-driving cars communicate with pedestrians, says Semcon, which has developed a smiling self-driving car technology.
While car makers and software companies working on self-driving car technology research extensively how cars should interact with other cars in traffic, much...
By signing the “Montevideo Declaration”, policy makers from around the world made smart cities a core element in reaching the U.N.’s sustainable development goals.
With 70 percent of the world population expected to be living in cities by 2050, smart cities are increasingly seen as...
Cities across the world face significant challenges stemming from urbanization, demographic change, changing lifestyles and climate change. These challenges, which have ushered in a focus on smart cities and enabling technologies, are illustrated in the UN-Habitat’s World Cities Report for 2016:
Urbanization: The urban...
The alliance includes internet of things players, corporations and government
An alliance of internet of things (IoT) industry players, corporations and government, has officially launched Hypercat Australia as a technology standard to support the development of smart cities.
Hypercat is a U.K.-developed alliance and standard that...
Verizon plans to integrate Sensity’s LED lighting work that includes embedded sensors and connectivity to boost ThingSpace IoT work in smart cities
Verizon Communications said it plans to acquire privately held Sensity Systems in a move to bolster its ThingSpace “internet of things” platform. Financial...
The Chinese city is collaborating with local vendor ZTE in a number of smart city initiatives
The city of Yinchuan, in China, is known to be the most advanced city in the Asian nation in terms of the development and implementation of smart city initiatives.
In...
Connecthings CEO: Smart cities can learn lesson from missteps of smart home market
Can you believe that next year marks the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the first iPhone? It wasn’t the first smartphone (a moment of silence, please, for devices like the Palm...
Huawei is expanding its safe city solutions suite with the launch of a new safe city integrated communication platform.
Chinese ICT vendor Huawei has presented a new integrated communication platform part of its safe city solutions suite, which aims at enabling fast response from first responder departments...
ZTE is currently working with local municipalities to identify potential smart city initiatives
MADRID – Carrier business accounted for approximately 87% of ZTE Spain revenues last year, the firm's GM Jia Yunpeng told reporters during a press conference. The executive said its main customers for infrastructure...
Mass urbanization is straining resources in metropolitan areas and having a direct impact on quality-of-life for residents. This global trend is prompting increasing investment in solutions designed to transform high population density areas into smart cities.
Smart cities is a somewhat nebulous term--it can include a...
The Chinese company also inked a deal with NCS and Tyco to create smart city solutions
Chinese telecommunications services provider Huawei has officially opened its Southern Pacific OpenLab in Singapore to foster ICT innovation.
The lab is an open end-to-end ICT Infrastructure platform where partners can...
San Diego's Petco Park expects to cut operating expenses by 25% over the next five years, thanks to real-time monitoring of its energy and water use. The park is not installing new pumps or meters, instead adding sensors and gateways to its current infrastructure...
Smart cities is a quickly evolving area in the U.S., following in the footsteps of global leaders like Barcelona, Amsterdam and Beijing. I had the chance to talk with Beverly Rider, Vice President of Enterprise IoT & Smart Cities with Ericsson, at a Digi.City Connects...
IoT dev kit is available for North America, Europe
U.S. signal semiconductor provider Semtech Corporation announced the availability of a new LoRaWAN-connected IoT development kit from Spanish wireless hardware and software manufacturer Libelium and Swiss start-up Loriot.
Semtech said that this new kit will allow designers to...
Huawei and China Telecom plan to deliver gigabit connectivity to homes in Shenzhen
Chinese ICT services provider Huawei and China Telecom Corporation signed a cooperation framework agreement to deliver gigabit connectivity to homes and communities in Shenzhen to lay the foundation for creating a smart city.
The...
Smart city connectivity is expanding to water utilities looking to ensure safe drinking water for citizens
We may not think about it every time we turn the faucet on, but it takes a very complex infrastructure to provide safe drinking water to a population.
Water utilities...
The Italian telco will develop the waste management project with two other companies
Italian mobile operator TIM and AlmavivA, with Agriconsulting, won a tender organized by the Ministry of the Environment for the deployment of a waste management system geared toward waste tracking.
The agreement, worth...
The 'internet of things' network will be nationwide in 2018
Sigfox, a French provider of global communications service for the IoT, and UnaBiz, an IoT network operator in Asia, announced the creation of a global internet of things testbed in Taiwan.
The testbed, which will be based...
The internet of things network will be nationwide in 2018
Sigfox, a French provider of global communications service for the “internet of things,” and UnaBiz, an IoT network operator in Asia, announced the creation of a global internet of things testbed in Taiwan.
The testbed, which...
Industrial group Bosch is entering the consumer mobility sector with the launch of a connected scooter sharing service in Berlin.
Coup is the name of a new connected scooter sharing service launched in Berlin by industrial group Bosch, in partnership with BCG Digital Ventures, the...
Open systems will be key to unlocking value from different verticals and applications in future smart cities. Provided we can agree on what openness is.
Standards are a great way of ensuring interoperability in a mature and stable industry environment. In the case of smart cities however,...
The government selected 83 smart city initiatives to be implemented in 20 initial cities
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently launched a number of smart city initiatives under his government's Smart Cities Mission program.
The government said 83 smart city initiatives will be implemented in 20...
The government selected 83 smart city initiatives to be implemented in 20 initial cities
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently launched a number of smart city initiatives under his government's Smart Cities Mission program.
The government said 83 smart city initiatives will be implemented in 20...
Companies target industrial internet of things
Huawei is partnering with GE to develop solutions for the industrial internet of things. The two companies announced their partnership in Shanghai, where GE is launching an incubator for startups and software developers focused on connected machines.
The companies said...
