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Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Iceland's electric grid gets boost from GE technologyTo help modernize and optimize the utility grid in Iceland, Council Lead Partner GE Digital Energy will provide Reykjavik Energy – Iceland’s...
Article - 02/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
In most parts of the world, this would be a completely useless description of a bank robber: white male, 30-45 years old, bandage on the left side of his neck. Thanks to advanced database technology, however, that’s all detectives needed to find the...
Article - 02/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
Take one quick glance around the waiting room of a doctor’s office and it’s obvious there aren’t enough medical professionals. You may find people who are still waiting for an appointment that was supposed to start an hour ago. You may also see...
Article - 02/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Connectivity
Can you imagine if people cut their power lines the way they have been cutting the cord with their cable television providers? Between distributed energy generation, conservation and other advances, that scenario isn’t quite as farfetched as it...
Article - 02/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Citizen engagement, Computing resources
As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, cities are having to make dramatic infrastructure improvements to support all of their new citizens. That’s costly, but cities have no choice but to find the funding. The New Cities Foundation says cities...
Article - 02/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership, Examples and case studies
Traffic jams are annoying and costly, and cities are using vigorous and various means to relieve their car-clogged roads.Many of these efforts focus on thinning out the number of drivers by promoting mass transit use, carpooling and ridesharing --...
Article - 02/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Connectivity
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is out with its latest list spotlighting government innovators. In all, the 2015 Bright Ideas program recognizes 124 innovative...
Article - 02/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Public safety and security, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
People who manage utilities typically spend far more time in offices than at substations, which can make it hard to truly understand the situation in the field and the work that needs to be done. Council Associate Partner Space-Time Insight is...
Article - 02/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
The term open data refers to data that’s free for people to view and analyze on their own, but the process itself for making that data available hasn’t necessarily been open. A new coalition backed by some industry giants aims to change that.As its...
Article - 02/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management, Interoperability
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Bogota's urban mobility transformation gets a boost from MasterCardRecaudo Bogota, Bancolombia and Council Lead Partner MasterCard are introducing electronic payments to promote and facilitate access...
Article - 02/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Transportation, Waste management, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
The summit was organised by FIRST Sm@rt Cities Council aimed to bring all stakeholders under one roof for an impressive exchange of ideas with the theme, Smart Cities: From Concept to Reality. The summit was supported by the Ministry of Urban...
Article - 02/19/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Visioning and roadmapping tools
It's a truism that Big Data creates big results, especially if that data is delivered in real time. Look no further than the maps on your smart phone to understand the value created by mashing up real-time data from many different sources. (Take a ...
Article - 02/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
India’s efforts to create 100 new smart cities are still in the early stages, though one major milestone is approaching fast. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who made the pledge, says the government will unveil its smart cities policy on March 31.One...
Article - 02/18/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Policy and leadership, Smart City Examples
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Schneider Electric technology will automate new Las Vegas showplace Council Lead Partner Schneider Electric has signed a multi-year agreement to become the first "founding partner" of the new Las...
Article - 02/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
Chattanooga’s high-speed fiber optic network continues to pay dividends. It already offers residents of the Tennessee city the fastest Internet service in the U.S. Now it enables them to test drive and help develop next-generation smart city...
Article - 02/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Connectivity
A new five-year effort hopes to speed the smart cities transformation in Europe by showing cities how it’s done. The new GrowSmarter initiative will focus on transforming three cities, making key improvements that will hopefully ripple across the...
Article - 02/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Smart City Examples
Eight Spanish cities reduced their electricity consumption by 64% and saved over 4,300 tonnes of C02 in 2014, thanks to efficient street lighting systems and technologies that both cut costs and benefit the environment.According to Council Lead...
Article - 02/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Cubic and Transport for London celebrate ticketing winCouncil Lead Partner Cubic Transportation Systems and TfL (Transport for London) are celebrating a win after TfL’s contactless payment system was...
Article - 02/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Payments, Transportation, Connectivity
Storms are challenging for utilities -- and certainly for their customers when outages occur. Resources are often stretched thin as crews try to troubleshoot and chase a multitude of problems scattered over their service area. But a newly updated...
Article - 02/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Connectivity
We typically think that we’re helping out good causes when we reach for our checkbooks. But Council Associate Partner UST Global says – and research backs up – that we may help our communities more if we keep our checkbooks in our pockets.UST Global...
Article - 02/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Citizen engagement