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Writing for the Mobile World Capital Barcelona website on standardization and regulation in the growing smart cities movement, Maria Gonzalez quoted Council Chairman Jesse Berst on the importance of standardization.”It is essential that cities join...
Article - 03/31/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
In his recap of the Smart City Expo World Congress held in November, 2013, in Barcelona, Spain, Jonathan Andrews quotes Smart Cities Council Chairman Jesse Berst as well as Laura Ipsen, who is Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, with...
Article - 03/27/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Teams of IBM experts will be traveling around the world to work closely with city leaders and deliver recommendations on how to make their cities smarter and more effective. IBM, a Council Global Partner, selected 16 cities as this year's Smarter...
Article - 03/26/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Economic development, Energy, Public safety and security, Transportation, Analytics
We know smart water networks can make a huge dent in water loss. After installing a smart water metering solution from Itron, a Council Global Partner, the Water Corporation of Western Australia was able to reduce the city of Kalgoorlie’s water use...
Article - 03/26/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Promoters of “open data” in government have released the results of a project that ranks 36 U.S. cities based on the type and quality of their open data efforts.Govtech.com reports that the project -- dubbed the U.S. Open Data Census -- reviewed and...
Article - 03/26/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Data management, Interoperability
Ridesharing -- that entrepreneurial twist on carpooling -- is facing new restrictions in Seattle.The Seattle Times reports that the city is the first in the country to set limits on the number of drivers that rideshare companies -- also known as...
Article - 03/26/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation
In what's being called the largest Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program in the U.S., Californians in 167 cities will soon be able to save money by reducing their energy and water use through an innovative public-private financing...
Article - 03/26/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Finance and procurement
Washington, D.C. (March 26, 2014) – The Smart Cities Council, an industry coalition to advance smart city development and innovation, announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind Smart Cities Apps Gallery showcasing smartphone apps created by, and...
Article - 03/26/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Council Chairman Jesse Berst told Bisnow Seattle that yes, Seattle is pretty smart... but it could be a lot smarter. Berst lives in the Seattle suburbs, so he's familiar with Seattle's collection of individual properties with labels like "green," "...
Article - 03/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main
PaymentsSource, a publication that focuses on news and analysis about credit card, debit card, mobile payments and other technology and trends in the payments industry, interviewed Council Chairman Jesse Berst about how payments will fit into the...
Article - 03/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Cisco takes its connected city message to Doha: Council Global Partner Cisco will share its vision for creating a sustainable smart and connected city as a Diamond Sponsor of the Arab Future Cities Summit in Doha, Qatar next month. The April 7-8...
Article - 03/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Computing resources, Connectivity
A new report from ABI Research explains why smart cities technologies -- and intelligent transportation services (ITS) in particular -- will become key policy areas for local governments soon if they aren't already.According to the research firm, by...
Article - 03/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
Ringgold is small city in Catoosa County, Georgia. But it's got big plans to boost tourism. Come Memorial Day when Ringgold hosts its annual 1890s Day Jamboree, attendees may notice a drone equipped with a video camera flying overhead. As the...
Article - 03/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
We told you last fall about San Francisco's plan to tap tech startups to help solve civic pain points. Several other large cities are developing similar initiatives – and we suspect many others will be watching how these efforts pan out.It turns out...
Article - 03/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Transportation, Citizen engagement
Meeting of the Minds hosted a March 12, 2014 smart cities webinar featuring Smart Cities Council Chairman Jesse Berst along with Russ Vanos, a senior vice president with Council Global Partner Itron, and Jason Zogg, and urban planner with Detroit's...
Article - 03/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Why did the Londoners cross the road?Because new state-of-the-art video camera technology, seeing that a large crowd was waiting at the street corner, automatically adjusted the traffic signal timings to extend the pedestrian crossing period. ...
Article - 03/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Instrumentation and control
Investment in smart city information and communication technology (ICT) in Asia Pacific will total $63.4 billion during the period from 2014 to 2023, according to a new report from Navigant Research. The market research firm cites a number of...
Article - 03/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Economic development
Cities and other government agencies working to incorporate smart city technologies into their operations sometimes fail to get the outcomes they’re looking for.Part of the reason for this is the old school procurement regimen that agencies abide by...
Article - 03/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Financing and procurement tools
For all our smart city dreams to come true, we must have lots of wireless bandwidth. Indeed, some experts predict we will need 1,000 times more bandwidth 10 years from now.What a challenge! Luckily Council Global Partner Qualcomm is hard at work on...
Article - 03/12/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity
An NPR report highlights the broadband beating that College Station, Texas faces. Councilman James Benham says high-tech companies – and the jobs that go with them – are fleeing his city because it can't offer the faster, cheaper broadband that...
Article - 03/12/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity