Smart City

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 …

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 …

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? …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A talk about the smart city with Ericsson’s Beverly Rider AUSTIN, Texas–In a big-picture talk about the smart city on Monday, Beverly Rider, vice president of enterprise IoT and smart cities …

Fujitsu’s new sensor-based sewer system flood detection solution promises both higher efficiency and lower deployment costs. Amid high levels of urbanization and repetitive torrential downpours, Japanese ICT company Fujitsu announced it …

Verizon and SK Telecom announced they will collaborate on co-developing 5G specifications, thereby strengthening their existing 5G collaboration. South Korean operator SK Telecom and U.S. operator Verizon have signed a Memorandum …

Energy management use cases Our current energy management systems are inadequate. Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are estimated to reach almost 685 parts per million (ppm) by 2050, well above …

Funding and identifying the right business case are the top challenges to IIoT adoption. IIoT understanding is however growing fast. Awareness of industrial IoT (IIoT) has been improving fast, with …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

A recent trade show in the U.K. highlighted the growing opportunities available to the wireless industry thanks to increased convergence across markets The recent Cambridge Wireless Future of Wireless International …

A public access city-wide LoRaWAN IoT network has been launched in Sydney, enabling anyone to connect a device and obtain sensor data. A public access LoRaWAN IoT network has been …

The University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) and Digital Greenwich have partnered to co-create and trial new 5G smart city technology. The University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC), …

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 …