Smart cities – are they still a thing? Well, Berg Insight has issued a report that brings together various of the IoT ‘verticals’ that comprise various of the metropolitan monitoring solutions that tend to get designated as such, and concludes that, yes, cities are...
Canadian company Rogers Business announced the launch of new offerings for smart cities and smart building using IoT technology.
In a release, the firm said that the new offerings will target the growing needs of businesses and municipalities for sustainable and operationally efficient infrastructure.
“As we...
Note, this article is taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what has gone wrong, and when will it go right? The full report is available here. A webinar on the same topic is available here, with panellists from BICS, Sequans, and Nordic...
U.K. smart city company Connexin announced it has raised an initial commitment of up to £80 million ($103 million) in funding to further strengthen its position in the smart infrastructure and Internet of Things (IoT) sector.
The company said that new investment will support the...
Vehicle maker Ford, automotive supplier Bosch, and property developer Bedrock are combining on a demonstration project in Detroit, Michigan, to automated valet parking, so vehicles drive and park themselves in an enclosed garage.
The project, at Bedrock’s Assembly Garage in Detroit, is billed as the...
Semtech parterning with local government on LoRaWAN
Semtech Corporation, a supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced that the Metropolitan Government of Seoul, in South Korea plans to deploy a new enterprise-grade citywide network for Internet of Things (IoT) applications based...
Arab telco du, working with Nokia, Affirmed Networks and MediaTek, has announced the launch of a narrowband internet of things network in the United Arab Emirates based on the latest 3GPP Release 14 standard, du said in a statement.
The carrier said that the new...
Verizon will work with Urbanova to deploy smart city solutions in the city of Spokane
Verizon and Urbanova, in collaboration with the city of Spokane, Washington, have inked a partnership for the development of smart city solutions.
Under the terms of the agreement, the partners will...
Only one smart city use case stands up to close scrutiny: smart street lighting. The business case for parking and garbage, the other functions in the holy trinity of smart city applications, is harder to make. And nothing else in the market even scans...
Two hours from Warsaw, the town of Kazimierz Dolny has hardly changed since the Renaissance, when it thrived as centre for the grain trade. T-Mobile Poland has just announced plans to make it the country’s “first multifaceted smart city”.
Deutsche Telekom, parent of T-Mobile Poland,...
The trial took place at the Mercedes-Benz Research and Development Center in Beijing
German companies Daimler and Bosch have announced the completion of a joint, automated valet parking pilot in China’s capital Beijing.
The technology, which had been initially tested in a parking garage at the...
We all have the experience of driving around looking for a parking place, whether we are attending a conference or shopping downtown. It is not just time-consuming and frustrating, but if you add up all the cars, there is also a lot of fuel...
The smart traffic initiative stipulates the deployment of 450 smart parking sensors
The government of Australia announced the launch of a project to install 450 smart parking sensors to benefit residents in the country’s Central Coast area.
Federal Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities Paul Fletcher...
The sensors will be connected via NB-IoT and will allow users to see available parking spaces via an app
German operator Deutsche Telekom started to install a new network of sensors on parking spaces in downtown Hamburg, in Germany.
The telco said that these sensors will...
The French city has deployed a smart parking solution with Libelium’s technology while the U.S city has launched a smart parking app
The smart parking industry continues to grow and has emerged as a major internet of things (IoT) use case that falls under the...
Fostering long-term innovation is key to Barcelona's smart city ambitions
Barcelona has been very active in terms of the deployment of smart city initiatives over the last few years.
One key element of the Spanish city’s smart city plan is the so-called ‘Smart City Campus’ which...
Dallas Innovation Alliance working with Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and more on smart city transformation
The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) continues to work to turn Dallas into a smart city through the use of IoT technologies. The entity is currently testing several uses cases to implement...
Learn how the IoT is enabling efficiencies in a variety of high-impact verticals
The internet of things (IoT) is all about using data to bring efficiencies to anything really--municipal government operations, manufacturing, oil and gas, building management, transportation and food production among many other examples....
At least five additional German cities have already signed smart parking deals with the telco
Deutsche Telekom is working with the city government of Bonn, in Germany, to implement a smart parking initiative in the city.
The telco said its Park and Joy app will enable...
Vodafone confirmed it will carry out proof-of-concept trials of smart lighting and smart parking through NB-IoT
The Irish subsidiary of U.K. telecommunications operator Vodafone has launched a nationwide NB-IoT network, local press reported. Vodafone Ireland has upgraded existing 4G base stations, in cooperation with Ericsson,...
To improve the quality of life in urban areas, many cities are attempting to harness the power of the internet of things (IoT) to combat crime, increase efficiency, drive economic growth and improve accessibility, according to Nokia. The company offers a wide range of...
Learn about how smart parking fits into the IoT ecosystem
The smart parking industry continues to grow and has emerged as a major internet of things (IoT) use case that falls under the umbrella of smart transportation. An increasing number of cities around the world...
The smart parking service includes indoor-outdoor navigation, smart car finding and capability open service (COS)
ZTE has launched its new indoor intelligent navigation, smart car seeking solution, which uses the QCell indoor coverage solution, mobile edge computing (MEC) and IoT terrestrial magnetism detection to provide smart...
Smart parking and mobility partnership envisions integration of sensors to enable autonomous parking
Cisco and French company Valeo have signed a cooperation agreement to develop strategic innovations in smart mobility services. The collaboration between the two firms enables vehicles equipped with Valeo smart parking technology...
