The term smart cities is popping up more frequently. So what does smart city actually mean? It’s a relatively new term, but it will be huge going forward. I am invited to attend more smart city conferences here in the U.S. and worldwide to...
U.S.-based Ingenu has deployed a LPWA IoT network in South Africa, and announced a new smart city platform.
Ingenu announced the deployment of a Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Internet of Things (IoT) network using the company’s proprietary Random Phase Multiple Access (RPMA) technology in...
Mike Zeto discusses AT&T's priorities during Smart Cities Week
WASHINGTON – One year into running a dedicated smart cities business unit, AT&T GM Mike Zeto discussed the operation, lessons learned and priorities going into 2017 during the Smart Cities Week event.
On the year-old business unit: "It...
Mike Zeto discusses AT&T's priorities during Smart Cities Week
WASHINGTON--One year into running a dedicated smart cities business unit, General Manager Mike Zeto discussed the operation, lessons learned and priorities going into 2017 during the Smart Cities Week event.
On the year old business unit: "It...
The Ericsson Garage will focus on IoT apps for smart cities, transport and energy projects
Swedish vendor Ericsson inaugurated an open lab for 5G technologies at the company's headquarters in Massy near Paris.
The Ericsson Garage has a focus on collaborating with students, startups and employees...
From dumpster to smart home
AUSTIN--Jeff Wilson, CEO and founder of KASITA, moved from a modern, comfortable, 3,000 square-foot home to a 33 square-foot dumpster.
His inspiration for the drastic, unconventional change came from a UCLA study that tracked the movements of 32 middle class families throughout...
AUSTIN--Chris Hoffman, CEO of RYNO Motors, spoke about his single-wheel motorcycle and vision for a future with vending machine-like on-demand car rental stations at the Start@ETS event put on by ZPryme.
Hoffman was challenge by his daughter to create a single wheeled motorcycle after seeing one in...
5G, smart cities and IoT were significant themes at the recent CTIA Super Mobility 2016 event and collocated Tower and Small Cell Summit
At CTIA Super Mobility 2016, the entire expo floor was transformed into a fully connected smart city with the entire wireless...
Huawei believes this cooperation agreement will offer enhanced smart city solutions
Chinese ICT services provider Huawei and French company Veolia recently signed an agreement to collaborate on smart city initiatives.
Under the terms of the deal, the two companies will work together to improve the quality of...
From dumpster to smart home
AUSTIN--Jeff Wilson, CEO and founder of KASITA, moved from a modern, comfortable, 3,000 square-foot home to a 33 square-foot dumpster.
His inspiration for the drastic, unconventional change came from a UCLA study that tracked the movements of 32 middle class families throughout...
AUSTIN--Chris Hoffman, CEO of RYNO Motors, spoke about his single-wheeled motorcycle and vision for a future with vending machine-like on-demand car rental stations at the Start@ETS event put on by ZPryme.
Hoffman was challenged by his daughter to create a single-wheeled motorcycle after seeing one in a...
Apparently homeless people were hogging the tablets at LinkNYC kiosks to watch porn
Due to "unexpected challenges," managers of the LinkNYC project, which in eight months has installed some 400 "link" kiosks in three New York City boroughs, are disconnecting internet browsing on the tablets.
Using...
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...
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...
Municipal leaders across the U.S. are quickly aligning around the concept of how to elevate their city to be a smart city. In its most basic form this means leveraging technology to make cities more effective, efficient and sustainable. Around the world, urban areas...
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...
Despite having ongoing deployments in over 100 cities, Huawei said it will take time until the smart city truly becomes a reality.
Huawei smart city service is being deployed in more than 100 cities in over 40 countries in the world, said Joe So, chief...
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, but has added sensors and gateways to its current...
Nutonomy has launched the world’s first public trial of self-driving taxis in Singapore, beating Uber to it.
Self-driving taxis powered by Nutonomy hit the streets of Singapore today, as the first autonomous driving taxi service trial in the world. The cars used in the trial...
Aruba's sole supplier of electricity turns to RPMA
N.V. Elmar (or, in Dutch, Naamloze Vennootschap Electriciteit-Maatschappij Aruba), the sole provider of electricity to Aruba, turned to Ingenu to help deploy an RPMA-based network capable of creating a smart grid across the entire island.
The grid was built...
