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Hawaii's Punahou School was designed on an open plan to take advantage of the mild climate. That means an open campus with no interior hallways. Because of the open design, numerous entry points must be monitored by video security equipment. The...
Resources - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security
Students and faculty at the University of Puerto Rico Humacao have an additional layer of safety thanks to the UPRH Alert security system from Invid, a software development and consulting company servicing the Caribbean region and a partner of...
Resources - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Connectivity
Here is the list of Smart Cities released by the government today:
Resources - 08/28/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Information Center
When a California wind farm needed to greatly increase its production capacity to comply with the state’s renewable energy requirements, it turned to Council Lead Partner S&C Electric for help. S&C provided end-to-end project and...
Resources - 08/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy
This video from Skift, a travel industry intelligence and marketing publication, and Council Lead Partner MasterCard share how the city of Amsterdam is responding to a population boom brought about by its status as a progressive and central urban...
Resources - 08/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Policy frameworks and tools
Part of a series by travel industry marketing and intelligence publication Skift and Council Lead Partner MasterCard, this video depicts how Singapore is developing a Smart Nation Program to conveniently move people throughout the city and provide...
Resources - 08/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation
Cities everywhere are challenged by congestion, pollution, crime, aging infrastructure, falling budgets and many other issues. They need new strategies and new technologies to address those challenges.Certainly smart technologies are a solution. But...
Resources - 08/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Member Premium Resources, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership, Financing and procurement tools
Citizens today are demanding more accountability from their government. They want to see how their tax dollars are spent. They want to put a stop to waste and bloated bureaucracies. And they want their civil servants to be like the clerk at the...
Resources - 08/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Member Premium Resources, Smart City Concepts, Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
The Smart Cities Readiness Guide® is the first collaborative and comprehensive framework for a smart city, against which cities can assess their readiness to innovate – identifying a path, taking next steps and measuring their progress. The Guide is...
Resources - 08/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Member Premium Resources, Smart City Concepts, The SCC Readiness Guide
Using the PI System from Council Associate Partner OSIsoft, the Minnesota Wild Hockey Club now has unique insight into the operations within its arena. From monitoring ice conditions, to air temperature and humidity, to energy consumption through...
Resources - 08/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Data management
When Arlington, Massachusetts Public Schools consolidated its summer school operations into one school building, officials were concerned about possible large increases in their power bill. They turned to Council Lead Partner Microsoft and adopted...
Resources - 08/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Computing resources
A massive urban growth boom is occurring throughout the world, forcing city leaders to grapple with stretching their resources and finding others to help cover the costs of critical development priorities. In this video moderator Arvind Satyam,...
Resources - 08/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Finance and procurement
Odense Municipality in Denmark wanted a way to streamline its governmental organization and replace an outdated email solution. The city needed a platform for communicating and collaborating that was easy and intuitive for both users and...
Resources - 08/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
With more than 4 billion people in the world lacking Internet access, Mawingu hopes to provide a solution. Watch in this video from Council Lead Partner Microsoft how the company uses TV white space, or the gaps in between TV channels, to deliver...
Resources - 08/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity
This year (2015) marks 100 years of Black & Veatch providing critical infrastructure solutions for clients around the world. Founded in 1915 by Ernest Bateman Black and Nathan Thomas Veatch with 12 employees, the company now provides energy,...
Resources - 08/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater
One of the biggest pain points during a visit to the mall is having to pay for parking. It's not the paying that's the problem; it's the inconvenience of having to pay using cash that is the real problem. Watch this video to learn about the...
Resources - 08/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Payments, Connectivity
This video highlights the Bristol Whales monument, designed to represent the beauty and fragility of our oceans and the increasing human threats that they face. Using 70,000 recycled plastic bottles, it was designed and built by Cod...
Resources - 08/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Waste management, Water and wastewater
One of the greatest challenges faced with Big Data analytics of sensor data is acquiring the sensor data in a scalable, reliable and consistent manner. This white paper from Gartner and Council Associate Partner OSIsoft discusses a strategic...
Resources - 08/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
In December 2014, a fire broke out at the Maldives Water and Sewerage Co. generator unit located on the island capital Malé, cutting off drinking water to over 150,000 people. Read in this case study how communications giant Ooredoo, a Council Lead...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
At a roundtable hosted by the Guardian, experts discussed how long it will take for all cities to become smart. In this video, Council Lead Partner Cisco's Rod Halstead, Capita's Catherine Howe, Innovate UK's Niraj Saraf and Sarah Gonsalves of...
Resources - 08/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts