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Surat, being the centre of opportunities for laborers and investors, has attracted migrants from nearby rural areas and cities. This has increasing the demand for intra-city transportation. In the year 2006, Surat Municipal Corporation’s (SMC)...
Article - 07/20/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Transportation, The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Interoperability
As we reported a few weeks ago from our Smart Cities Forum with Consult Australia, the smart cities standards dialogue in Australia is heating up. And rightly so. The pioneering work of the Internet of Things Alliance Australia has been...
Article - 04/11/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Interoperability, Policy and leadership
Today's connected citizens prefer digital city services they can access by web or smartphone. And that's great news for cities, because it costs far less to provide services digitally. For instance, Britain’s 2012 Digital Efficiency Report found...
Article - 03/16/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America
Category: Computing resources, Interoperability
Those of you who've heard me rant in person or in prose know that I hammer the need to build integrated, cross-cutting smart cities. No city, not even the wealthiest, can afford to build piecemeal, single-purpose applications department by...
Article - 12/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Interoperability, Policy and leadership
It’s not any one piece of equipment or technology that makes a city smart. What makes a city smart is when all of it works together. It’s easy to lose sight of that as you’re focused on deploying technology piece by piece — smart streetlights here,...
Article - 12/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Instrumentation and control, Interoperability
Cities often have big ideas, but a lack of resources and expertise can hold them back. But there is a path over those obstacles: partner-created, interoperable applications. It’s a path that’s working for many cities.Current, powered by GE, will...
Article - 09/06/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Interoperability
The Council is excited to return to Washington, D.C., September 27-29 for the second-annual Smart Cities Week. Check out the program grid and make plans to attend.As we lead up to Smart Cities Week, I’ve asked our host city to share the work it’s...
Article - 07/07/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Interoperability, Policy frameworks and tools
Standards aren’t just technical specifications to get one system to talk to another. They can also be a valuable tool to make sure your smart cities initiatives are on the right track — and to demonstrate that you’re a good steward of your taxpayers...
Article - 07/07/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Interoperability, Policy frameworks and tools
A city cannot function without power and, as you’re about to read below, you will soon need a lot more of it. But it’s not just a matter of adding a little capacity here and a little production there. For a city to truly be smart, all the elements...
Article - 07/07/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Interoperability
As you plan your smart cities initiatives, how much thought are you giving to standards? If your answer is, “not much,” then you are really setting yourself up for failure.Standards are what break down the silos that keep your systems from working...
Article - 07/07/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Interoperability