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The headline of the press release below talks about which smart city sectors will see rapid growth. And the first sentence talks about the potential to hit $3.3 trillion by 2025.As great as those things are, I think there are even more important...
Article - 08/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Citizen engagement, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
The supporting members of the Smart Cities Council are in the sector to make money. But they want to do that while making a difference. The story below is a wonderful example of the transformative power of technology. And a great reminder that the...
Article - 08/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Health and human services, Computing resources
Cute idea, but Google's attempt to find the top "eCity" for each U.S. state really turns out to be a measure of the top smaller city with the businesses that do the most to have a presence online. The methodology favors smaller cities over big ones...
Article - 08/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity
Former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist has a thoughtful piece in Strong Towns that recommends taking a hard look before widening streets. Congestion can actually cause an uptick in retail sales, for instance. In other cases, the costs of buying real...
Article - 08/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
The research arm of The Economist has just published a report benchmarking the global competitiveness of the world's 120 largest cities. We list the top ten below. You can also read a quick summary at 24/7 Wall Street but I suggest you download the...
Article - 08/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
I agree with the Navigant report below predicting growth in building energy management systems. But I feel I should warn you of two hurdles that may slow things down. Put another way, growth would be even faster if it weren't for these two...
Article - 08/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Data management, Instrumentation and control
This article from ArchDaily meanders all over the place, but there's an important nugget buried within. Architects are often asked to design the buildings and neighborhoods and cities of the future. Yet they are woefully uninformed about the amazing...
Article - 08/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
Does the Smart Cities Council need to become the Smart Suburbs Council instead? New research from the University of Lincoln (UK), the New Zealand Energy Centre and the University of Auckland claims that suburbs have a greater potential to become...
Article - 08/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Policy and leadership
You'll notice confirmation of several important trends embedded in this Bloomberg article about smart sensors.Intelligence is migrating to the edges. It's not feasible to manage millions of field sensors from a giant brain in the center. Instead,...
Article - 08/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control
As you may know, the Smart Cities Council is preparing Version 1.0 of its Readiness Guide for launch in fall 2013. In that handbook, we warn cities that technology is not an end in itself. Rather, technology should be in service to a city's larger...
Article - 08/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Policy and leadership, Examples and case studies
Rocky Mountain Institute recently posted a thorough discussion of the value streams from smart buildings. Most people, they explain, try to cost justify the technology merely on the basis of the energy it saves. But smart buildings bring a lot more...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
The organizations building smart city platforms continue to proliferate in both the private and public sectors. One of the most intriguing is a collaboration between European and Japanese companies, cities and research institutions. Their goal is...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Interoperability
By Jesse Berst Greenfields projects are vitally important to the success of the smart cities movement. Because they have fewer constraints, because they are not hampered by the additional expense of retrofitting, they become the proving ground for...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Like most people, when I say "innovation" I think first about technology. Yet we've known since the 1970 publication of the book Future Shock that people (and their institutions) change far more slowly than technology. And we know from the first few...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Policy and leadership
Thanks to support from Smart Cities Council Lead Partner IBM, the Dublin City University has created a new masters degree that specifically references smart cities. I think you'll want to skim the release below not just for the announcement, but...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management, Policy and leadership
A new report from market research firm Frost & Sullivan underlines what has already become apparent in the field. Transportation is one of the most common flash points for a smart city. The equation seems to work like this: Transportation...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
Q&A with Pascal Terrien, Director for Sustainable Cities Program, EDF Research and DevelopmentPascal Terrien leads the sustainable cities effort at French giant EDF, a Smart Cities Council Lead Partner. The EDF Group is a world-leading...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Policy and leadership
Carson City Public Works is responsible for taking care of the Nevada city’s water, wastewater, transportation, landfill, fleet, environmental, and renewable power systems. To achieve its goals, Carson City Public Works created an infrastructure...
Resources - 08/21/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy