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Scroll down for quick news takes and events involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Johnson Controls acquires TriatekCouncil Lead Partner Johnson Controls has acquired the assets of Triatek, a company that provides airflow solutions for buildings....
Article - 04/12/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Connectivity, Data management, Instrumentation and control
Smart street lights are a great first smart cities project. They’re relatively easy to deploy and they deliver quick, tangible benefits.But they’re also great platform for other city services. You can start with smart lighting and branch out into...
Article - 08/17/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Joining the league of cities with smart solutions, Coimbatore from now will monitor air quality for its citizens. The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation has installed 30 solar-powered air quality monitoring devices to address city’s air pollution...
Article - 07/16/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control, Smart City Tools
If you haven’t already given some thought into making your streetlights smarter, now is a good time to start. Smart streetlights are a great first smart cities project because they provide tangible benefits, they’re relatively easy to deploy and...
Article - 06/22/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
The smart cities collaboration across major cities in New Zealand has become a thing of envy, to others across the Tasman. When I visited the NEC smart cities studio on Wellington last year, I was first introduced to the work being pioneered across...
Article - 04/11/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Public safety and security, Instrumentation and control
Through its Living Lab platform, Council Lead Partner AT&T, the city's Dallas Innovation Alliance, additional tech companies such as Lead Partner Current, powered by GE, academic institutions and the community are working together on three...
Article - 03/30/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
In an age where your smartphone can tell you exactly when you need to leave to arrive on time, for many people, the level of service they get from utilities can seem a bit ancient. After all, water utilities still occasionally surprise homeowners...
Article - 03/30/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Data — and the ability to act on it in real-time — is the very bedrock of a smart city. But what’s an efficient way to build the data infrastructure you need? San Diego provides a great roadmap.San Diego is using its street lights as a springboard....
Article - 03/09/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
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
During a game, a ballpark basically becomes a small city. But a few hours before or after it can practically be a ghost town. Those dramatic usage swings set up a tremendous opportunity for waste.In San Diego, however, the cost of running Petco Park...
Article - 08/25/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Council Associate Partner Clevest specializes in state-of-the-art workforce management, with emphasis on the special needs of utilities. They've just released a smartphone app that points to the future we all want for utility field crews — indeed...
Article - 07/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Cities have many reasons to get smart. Climate mandates. Economic development. Operational efficiency. New research suggests that you can make gains on these and other goals by working towards smart buildings. First, by updating the city’s own...
Article - 06/22/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Cities have several alternatives for connecting to their smart devices citywide. They can ask their IT department to "hardwire" the connections one at a time. Or they can hire an integrator/consultant to do all that messy work. Or they can turn to a...
Article - 06/15/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Interoperability
Slowly but surely, the walls are coming down between silos to allow cross-cutting solutions. Slowly but surely, companies are moving those solutions into the cloud, where they can grow as big and as fast as needed. You'll see both of these trends...
Article - 06/08/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Instrumentation and control, Interoperability
Cities really are in the customer service business. Thus, when it snows and residents can’t get to where they need to go, it’s the city’s problem. Just ask former Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels. According to Grist Magazine, he lost his 2008 re-election...
Article - 05/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Instrumentation and control
By Erica Zamensky, Black & VeatchFrom parks to parking lots, street lights are everywhere. Los Angeles has 220,000 street lights, for example and San José has over 60,000. Street lights consume a lot of power, typically accounting for 40%...
Article - 05/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Instrumentation and control, Interoperability
Don't think that smart city innovations come only from big cities. Consider, for instance, what is taking place in eastern Washington and parts of Idaho. As you will read below, the regional utility is modernizing its electric and gas infrastructure...
Article - 05/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Instrumentation and control
By Dr. Michael J. Dixon, General Manager, Smarter Cities, IBM There is no doubt that IBM’s focus on the emerging Cognitive Era will have an impact in cities and state, local, and regional governments around the world in 2016. After leading a broad...
Article - 01/14/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Instrumentation and control, Interoperability
David Logsdon is the senior director of public advocacy for CompTIA, the influential high-tech trade association. (The name stands for Computing Technology Industry Association.) He runs their New and Emerging Technologies Committee, which focuses...
Article - 10/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Cities have found intelligent street lights useful for everything from energy conservation to traffic management, but a new partnership involving Council Lead Partner GE will help them fight crime too. In fact, the lights will be able to alert...
Article - 10/02/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Public safety and security, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control