Smart City

Smart City Challenge finalists competing for $50 million in support of transportation innovation AUSTIN, Texas – U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced the seven finalist cities in the …

The move to allow Zain to create smart city business unit Kuwait-based telecom operator Zain Group announced a strategic investment in smart city advisory and consulting firm NeXgen Group. Zain …

The U.S. Department of Transportation, looking ahead to smart city projects of the future, plans to award $160 million to improve traffic congestion, make cities safer, deal with climate change, …

LinkNYC, an ambitious project to convert old New York City phone booths in public Wi-Fi access points, is still in the beta phase, but project backer Qualcomm is looking forward …

Billions of devices are expected to be wirelessly connected as part of the “Internet of Things” evolution – and in order to ensure that they work correctly, these smart meters, …

CES 2016 Internet of Things (IoT) musings from the IoT Innovation gang. Listen in as Sean Kinney, Managing Editor – RCR Wireless News; Chris Hare, CEO – nTeTe; and Steve Brumer, …

LAS VEGAS – Ericsson announced a partnership with AT&T on a sustainable city initiative designed to bring connectivity to the city of Atlanta’s water supply. The trials are said to …

On Nov. 17, representatives from governments, trade groups and industry gathered in Barcelona, Spain, for the Smart City World Congress Expo. Attendees discussed and examined various technologies that could become …

How does US government IoT policy stack up with the rest of the world?  According to IoT Pioneer Kevin Ashton, and other sources, US government lagging behind China, Germany, EU …

Chinese equipment vendor Huawei to invest $1 billion in ICT developers cloud, API and IoT enablement platform Huawei Internet Plus-related initiatives were showcased at the Huawei Developers Congress (#HDC2015) held in …

China IoT services revenue will outpace all countries by 2020 to $41 Billion – ABI Research In this week’s episode of IoT Innovation, Jeff Mucci from RCR Wireless News and Sanjay …

Ericsson, today announced a new concept for automated network transport that will be demonstrated at the ITS World Congress this coming week. Th new concept portrays how data obtained from …

Smart traffic systems could save commuters two to four days per year of time spent in traffic In a new report, the GSMA projects the city of Bangkok could save …

A pilot project has been under development to transform the city of Águas de São Pedro, a small municipality with about 3,000 citizens located 187 kilometers from São Paulo, into …

MUNICH – Building on the update from the first day of Huawei Innovation Day, the second day was all about the connected world. Topics included connected cars, smart cities and …

Pothole Alert system could notify local government when your car hits a rough spot Automaker Jaguar Land Rover is developing technology that will use cloud-computing to push data from a …

The telco aims to implement the platform in a smart city trial in Busan South Korea’s largest mobile telephony operator, SK Telecom, has launched an open “Internet of Things” platform …

Smart city initiatives focus at annual software showcase NICE, France – As the “Internet of Things” revolution picks up and previously static objects are given intelligence, smart cities appear poised …

ZTEsoft’s ZSaaS solution provider NICE, France – ZTEsoft today announced ZSmart Cloud Enabler, a software as a service platform designed to provide solutions to both service providers and enterprises that …

Chinese firm signs MoU with the government of Gujarat state ZTEsoft, the software subsidiary of Chinese telecoms equipment manufacturer ZTE, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of …

Plan to cap Wi-Fi use at 50 megabytes per day The government of Delhi, India, plans to deploy free public Wi-Fi in the city, as well as other Internet-based transit, …

Real-time traffic and passenger information management systems in development for LatAm market Networking giant Ericsson is partnering with Volvo’s Latin American business unit that sells buses for public transit to …

Telensa, a Plextek company, focuses on “Internet of Things” connected via ultra narrowband technology. Eighteen years ago, this technology was developed to track stolen vehicles and used by companies such as LoJack …

Carrier plans an 8-city IoT education tour WASHINGTON – Verizon Enterprise Solutions announced it will expand its foray into smart city and smart agriculture technology as part of the vaunted “Internet …

Public Wi-Fi part of Tel Aviv’s ranking as ‘World’s Smartest City’ Tel Aviv, Israel, has a robust public Wi-Fi network that’s free to use and popular among tourists. Data collected …