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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
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
When a comprehensive energy efficiency upgrade is completed for the 82 buildings on three community college campuses in the San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD), the district will be the first in California to integrate building...
Article - 07/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…GE launching waste-to-energy plant in the PhilippinesGE is supplying Aseagas Corp. with gas engines for the company’s first waste-to-electricity project in Lian in the Province of Batangas,...
Article - 05/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Waste management, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
The future of self-driving commercial vehicles is unclear, but the lure of fewer accidents, reduced fuel costs – not to mention less human error – have generated excitement in the trucking industry as well as the transportation safety sector.The...
Article - 05/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
It's a truism that Big Data creates big results, especially if that data is delivered in real time. Look no further than the maps on your smart phone to understand the value created by mashing up real-time data from many different sources. (Take a ...
Article - 02/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
By Sharelynn Moore, ItronToday, populations continue to grow rapidly within the world’s urban areas. For the first time ever, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This growth, coupled with aging infrastructure is putting...
Article - 02/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
As city leaders, academics and leading smart cities practitioners from around the world gather for the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona this week, Smart Cities Council members are sharing their expertise and thought leadership on a host...
Article - 11/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
China's economic growth in recent decades has raised the living standards of hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens and led to China becoming the second largest economy in the world. But that growth has come at a cost. More and more cars clogging...
Article - 07/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for this week's short takes from Council members...National Grid provides smarter, more reliable energy in Worcester: Council Global Partner National Grid launched the technology phase of its Smart Energy Solutions Program in March and...
Article - 04/02/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
We've seen it before -- developing regions leapfrogging the developed world. South Korea, for instance, is the acknowledged world leader in broadband access after starting from way behind. And now we are seeing signs that India may become a leader...
Article - 09/25/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
We told you earlier about Microsoft's powerful foray into smart building management. It is impressive for its ability to work with myriad devices and myriad building management systems. That kind of integration is oh-so-difficult but oh-so-necessary...
Article - 06/25/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Microsoft's foray into smart building management represents the holy grail -- namely, an application that improves sustainability and improves resident satisfaction while also paying for itself. If we can help cities get started with high-payoff...
Article - 04/22/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Bit Stew Systems how its revolutionary information processing engine, MIx Core™, enables complex event processing, advanced analytics and sophisticated machine intelligence for utilities and the...
Resources - 06/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
What makes communities smart? This video from Council Associate Partner Elster suggests smart and sustainable communities start with a smart grid, the heartbeat that powers the community's critical infrastructure.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Michael Edmonds is a smooth and articulate spokesman for S&C Electric, the Chicago-based provider of electric power equipment and services for utilities. The British accent certainly doesn't hurt, but he can also lean on many years in the...
Resources - 05/20/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Philip Mezey combines a distinguished countenance with boyish curiosity and enthusiasm. In 2012, after an external search to find a replacement for the retiring LeRoy Nosbaum, the company realized it had the ideal candidate in house and named...
Resources - 04/18/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control