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Our third-annual Smart Cities Week D.C. is coming up Oct. 3-5 in Washington, D.C. The world’s leading smart cities experts will converge there, sharing advice and practical steps you can take to make your city more livable, workable and sustainable....
Article - 09/14/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Examples and case studies
Citizen mobility is one of the key issues in a city like Pune. The city relies solely on buses for public transportation, but the average number of buses per lakh population is only 37! Additionally, buses in Pune have issues with availability (...
Article - 07/27/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Data management, Examples and case studies
Smarter use of technology is helping Seattle making significant progress in everything from moving people through the city’s downtown core to more effectively dealing with storm water. Michael Mattmiller, who has served as the city’s Chief...
Article - 09/06/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Examples and case studies
GE has just set up a demonstration street light in New York that talks to passers-by. Yes, it's a bit of a gimmick — in actual deployments, the street lights will talk to your smartphone, not to you in person.But it's a valuable gimmick. First, it's...
Article - 12/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Interoperability, Examples and case studies
Urban planning is often an exercise in extrapolation. We extend current trends to guess where they will be in the future. But that may not work for traffic planning, at least according to a survey of Boston professionals. The younger generation...
Article - 11/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Examples and case studies
The London Underground planned on five weeks of tests to see how much energy it could collect when the trains braked on their approach to a substation. Just one week into the trial, the potential benefits of recycling energy were so strong that the...
Article - 10/02/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Examples and case studies
Kamikatsu, a small village in the mountains of Shikoku Island in south-west Japan, aims at being the country's first 'Zero Waste' community by 2020. And going by the pace of implementation so far, it seems that the Japanese' town is very much on the...
Article - 09/07/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management, Citizen engagement, Examples and case studies
The Thane Municipal Corporation has undertaken a host of initiatives across various sectors to improve the quality of life of residents.Solid waste management (SWM)Solid waste generation in the TMC area is around 650 MT per day. In addition to...
Article - 09/01/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Examples and case studies
Once called the dirtiest city in India, Surat achieved a remarkable transformation in less than two years after the plague of December 1994 owing to improved municipal management and strong leadership. Following the outbreak of the plague in the...
Article - 09/01/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Examples and case studies
The Navi Mumbai Airport Influence Notified Area, or NAINA, was created after the Ministry of Environment and Forest lay down 53 conditions to be met before it granted clearances for the Navi Mumbai Airport. Among them was that Navi Mumbai’s...
Article - 09/01/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Examples and case studies
As we age, we tend to get a little self-conscious about how we look. That’s also a bit true of Singapore, which is turning 50 this month. And it’s celebrating with a truly extreme makeover –- reinventing itself inside and out.The city state is going...
Article - 08/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Analytics, Examples and case studies
How would you replace your old streetlights with new LEDs for just $1 apiece? That’s the deal some cities are getting and it’s helping to further reduce the already short payback period on the energy-efficient lights.In Massachusetts, Andover city...
Article - 07/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Public safety and security, Examples and case studies
Whether forced to by severe weather or a collapsing economy, or voluntarily by a desire to live with less impact, a number of cities are trying to transform themselves. Here are five inspiring projects from among the dozen that make up EcoDistricts’...
Article - 05/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement, Examples and case studies
From instantaneous business information to solutions that put data in the fog and pull insights out, Council partners demonstrated a variety of technologies at the Smart Cities Now event in Charlotte, NC -- technologies that are already paying off...
Article - 03/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Connectivity, Examples and case studies
Looking for money to help fund a smart cities initiative? You may already have it. It just may be going down the drain.Itron CEO Philip Mezey told participants at the Council's Smart Cities Now forum in Charlotte, North Carolina this week that North...
Article - 03/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership, Examples and case studies, SCC Spotlight Cities
Sorting trash is certainly a dirty job. Thanks to a project that’s already in the prototype phase, however, it may not have to be for much longer.Council Associate Partner Veolia is testing a new remote operated sorting system where a touch screen...
Article - 03/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management, Examples and case studies
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
"We’ve been on a lot of top 10 lists recently and it's not just because of our beaches and our bays," San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer told the Smart Cities Now forum meeting in his city last week. The mayor showed a video clip highlighting a new...
Article - 12/15/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Policy and leadership, Examples and case studies
The Australian city of Adelaide in June launched AdelaideFree, a wholesale makeover of its free citywide WiFi network. This public-private joint venture involved installing nearly 200 new wireless access points from SCC Lead Partner Cisco. Another...
Article - 08/27/2014
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Built environment, Connectivity, Policy and leadership, Examples and case studies
It seems like an odd assortment of issues, but Chicago officials say the Internet of Everything is helping them solve everything from crime and traffic congestion to staffing challenges and pest control.Chicago got a chance to show off this week at...
Article - 07/25/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Examples and case studies