The Hong Kong-based car marker will target companies with focus on IoT and smart city initiatives
Hong Kong-based car maker Infiniti has launched its technology accelerator Infiniti Lab in Toronto, Canada, which is focused on helping to grow companies working on internet of things (IoT)...
City governments around the world are increasingly adopting schemes to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in order to tackle several challenges for the city?s management and to improve the quality of life of citizens and the efficiency...
Deep dive: Smart city infrastructure design
Moderator Chelsea Collier, Editor-At-Large, Smart Cities Connect and Founder, Digi.City is joined by Zeev Braude, GreenRoad, CEO & President; Bryon Jacob, CTO & Co-founder, Data.World; Jay Boisseau, Austin CityUP, President; Vizias, CEO and Nathan Dunn, Blue Cats, CEO to discuss smart city infrastructure...
How Open Standards Are Driving Smart City Innovation
Sean Tippett, Director of Smart Cities, Silver Spring Networks
https://youtu.be/MRh5V91vKbs
More than 50 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas—and by 2050, the United Nations expects an additional 2.5 billion people to live in cities. In this...
Cognitive approach to building a safe and smart city
Fawzi Behmann, President, TelNet Management Consulting, Inc.
Vice-Chair and DL, IEEE NA Communications Society
https://youtu.be/EMRHIe_2d2s
Fawzi is a visionary, thought leader, author, entrepreneur and contributor in advancing adoption of technology in serving humanity. Fawzi spent over 30 years in...
Tech Innovation and Society
Joseph Kopser President, Grayline. Cofounder of RideScout
https://youtu.be/5nTqLgkEn2c
Joseph Kopser is the President of Grayline. At Grayline, Joseph works to bring together experts, data, and solutions to help companies and public institutions manage disruptive change. Before joining Grayline, he was the Global President...
The deal stipulates cooperation in IoT and smart cities fields
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica has signed an agreement with compatriot infrastructure company Ferrovial for the provision of a range of communications services.
Under the terms of the five-year agreement, Telefonica will provide fixed and mobile technology,...
New meters use technologies including nonmagnetic induction and NB-IoT wireless remote transmission.
ZTE released two narrowband internet of things-based smart water meters during the CeBIT exposition taking place this week in Hannover, Germany.
The new smart meters – dubbed the LXY-15 and LXY-20...
City governments around the world are increasingly adopting schemes to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in order to tackle several challenges for the city’s management and to improve the quality of life of citizens and the efficiency...
The initiative stipulates the digitalization of up to 11,000 parking spaces.
Deutsche Telekom and the city of Hamburg, Germany, are currently working to connect many of the city's parking areas to allow drivers to find available spaces and pay parking fees through...
Over the last few years, the city of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, has been heavily using the information and communication technology to bring the government closer to the citizens under the umbrella of its Smart City Plan. It has adopted solutions that are...
The evolution of the public safety sector is set to impact smart city initiatives, though partnerships could ease the transition.
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German firm ICE Gateway selected Vodafone Group to improve the company’s smart city offerings.
ICE Gateway offers end-to-end products and services, and develops the hardware and software for wireless outdoor infrastructure-as-a-service, including light-emitting diodes, traffic, marketing, security, logistics and applications. The company has...
Smart toilet technology informs festival attendees of bathroom wait times.
Organizers of the Rock in Rio festival selected Vodafone to supply smart city solutions to tackle a number of challenges in the execution of the music festival.
The Rock in Rio festival started in Brazil...
AT&T, GE, Intel, Harman and others were busy showing off their smart city products and services at Mobile World Congress 2017. Themes at the show included "5G," artificial intelligence, the internet of things," virtual reality and augmented reality, but smart cities are one of...
Digi-Tel smart city platform eases access to municipal services
Tel Aviv’s core smart city project is Digi-Tel, a platform that provides personalized access to services and information via email, text messages, a tailored website, and a tailored mobile app.
The information provided by this platform...
The project stipulates a smart city initiative in China’s Pilot Free Trade Zone Hengqin
PCCW Global, the international operating division of Hong Kong telecoms services provider HKT, and Chinese company Zhuhai Da Hengqin Technology Development Company (DHQ Tech) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
French firm plans to deliver smart city applications for government offices, residents and utilities.
Orange Business Services signed a consulting deal with Qatari managed services provider Meeza to deliver smart services and applications at Msheireb Downtown Doha, a smart city initiative in...
When it comes to smart cities, it's all about 'leveraging municipality relationships.'
"Smart cities," a term that covers a range of cyberphysical technology deployments dependent on various types of network connectivity, have emerged as an attractive vertical for service providers, vendors and other telecom stakeholders....
Smartphones, smart cars, smart homes – once enough of the amenities and tools in our lives become “smarter,” it’s only natural that they would pool together into smart cities. And, that’s exactly what’s on the horizon.
The internet of things is rapidly facilitating the growth...
South Korean city began its smart city project in 2003, and now monitors transportation and crime prevention efforts.
Anyang, a city of 600,000 people near South Korea’s capital Seoul, has been developing its smart city project since 2003. The initiative began with the...
With the world’s population set to hit 9.7 billion people by 2050, smart city and IoT technologies will be critical to meet demands.
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Reality Check section is where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the...
Thai government looks to develop IoT initiatives including a smart city project in Phuket.
SK Telecom signed a contract with Thai state-run telecommunication operator CAT Telecom for the deployment of internet of things networks and technology consulting.
Under terms of the deal SK...
The United Nations predicts that, based on an ongoing wave of global urbanization, 70% of the world's population will live and work in urban areas by 2050. As such, smart city technologies, from public Wi-Fi to facilitate access to city services to smart parking...
