Global City Teams Challenge provides collaborative forum for smart city R&D
CHICAGO--“We have a problem in IoT and smart city in general. We’re extremely fragmented," Sokwoo Rhee, associate director of the cyber physical systems program at the National Institute of Standards Technology told attendees to...
Inter-departmental coordination is imperative for smart city success
Hospitality industry nonprofit Visit Orlando figures around 68 million people visited the Central Florida theme park destination in 2016. In a metro area with more than 2.3 million residents, the addition of tourists can create issues ranging...
Smart lighting lays the groundwork for a smart city
The City of Oslo needed a street lighting solution to satisfy European directives to reduce energy use and carbon dioxide emissions. The Norwegian capital also wanted to lower street light operating costs, ensure driver and pedestrian...
Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, is one of the world’s largest metropolitan areas by population. The local government was facing a challenge with frequent waste management, collection and overflow issues That is why the Seoul metropolitan government came to Ecube Labs.
With an...
If anything, the idea of a smart city in the conventional sense – where everyday infrastructure is connected up and joined together to bring new intelligence and innovation to city operations – has been made real by low-power wide area (LPWA) technologies.
It is these...
By degrees, digital technology is finding its way into city operations, and making cities more efficient and more sustainable. Statistics bear this out. IDC calculates nearly a half of European cities are in some phase of digital transformation into a smart city, and U.S....
Smart city projects cover public safety, traffic management, sustainability
The city of San Jose, in California, has been taking rapid steps towards the implementation of a city-wide smart city program.
In January 2017, San Jose’s smart cities and service improvements committee was approved by the City...
Pair of studies focus on where and how smart city tech can make the biggest difference
In many ways the digital transformation from a city to a smart city is the ultimate application of the internet of things--the umbrella term covers a wide array of...
Alba Iulia, Romania
Orange has funded and developed the first and biggest integrated smart cities project in Romania, in the city of Alba Iulia, capital of Alba County in Transylvania. The French network operator has worked with the city since late 2016 to expand and...
Cisco has beaten IBM for the first time to the top spot in Navigant Research’s poll of the top smart city suppliers. IBM, which has ranked in first position in each of the consultancy group’s previous assessments of suppliers in the smart city market,...
The smart cities market proclaims it has reached a new phase in its evolution, at last, which is showing tangible results in terms of operational efficiencies and sustainability. With familiar terminology, borrowed from the world of software, it has dubbed this new phase ‘Smart...
The new agreement is part of the emirate’s efforts to transform Dubai into a smart city
The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Dubai Airports as part of larger efforts to expand cooperation and promote the emirate’s smart...
3 Hong Kong will focus on the development of specific NB-IoT solutions for a number of industry verticals
With narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) the connectivity of choice in China per government officials, mobile operator 3 Hong Kong and vendor Huawei have announced the completion...
Latest 5G trials will be carried out by TIM and Fastweb with the support of Huawei
Italian operators TIM and Fastweb, together with Chinese vendor Huawei, said the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) has awarded  spectrum in the 3.6-3.8 GHz frequencies to trial 5G technologies...
Part of a larger EU program, Helsinki smart city projects focus on energy and transportation
Finland’s capital Helsinki, along with two other European cities, have reached a three-year implementation stage in the mySMARTLife smart city development project 2016-2021, which aims to cut energy use by...
The Houston-based firm will deploy this system at 28 intersections along three major roads in the Californian smart city
The City of Chula Vista, in southern California--engaged in a number of smart city projects--has selected Trafficware’s SynchroGreen adaptive signal technology, which allows a smart signal...
Namyangju has a population of 650,000 and is located 25 kilometers northeast of Seoul in the Republic of Korea. City leaders have been continuously promoting smart city project since 2008.
This Asian city has recently experienced rapid population growth followed by large-scale housing development to...
The two entities will explore opportunities to identify processes for efficient implementation of small cell solutions across campuses and cities
The Small Cell Forum (SCF) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) have announced an alliance to focus on smart communities and smart buildings.
The two organizations...
The German company said that the smart city hub will be powered by Siemens’ cloud-based IoT OS MindSphere
Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) has signed an agreement with Siemens for the establishment of a smart city digital hub in Hong Kong Science...
 Huawei and the City of Weifang also agreed to move forward with the establishment of an NB-IoT innovation center
Huawei and the government of Weifang City, in China, have launched "IoT Weifang", an IoT city demo based on NB-IoT technology and Huawei OceanConnect IoT platform.
Under...
Metro Atlanta Chamber will work with Accenture and other partners to oversee and advise on strategy and direction for smart cities
Accenture, AT&T, General Electric and The Weather Company along with Atlanta Committee for Progress have jointly launched IoT.ATL, a new initiative to attract internet...
American Tower and Philips Lighting partner on connected light poles to add network density for smart city applications
SAN FRANCISCO--Siting of wireless infrastructure in urban spaces is often a tricky proposition for wireless carriers and neutral host providers. Regulations vary between jurisdictions, which makes developing...
AT&T is exclusive reseller for GE Current intelligent sensor nodes in U.S. and Mexico
AT&T may be moving much of its workforce out of Atlanta, but the company clearly remains committed to the city. This week at Mobile World Congress Americas, AT&T said it will...
The two firms will initially focus on smart city use cases including environment, transportation systems and waste management.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and PwC have announced a project to jointly create a center of excellence (CoE) in Kolkata, India, to develop smart city technologies.
HPE and PwC...
