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Scroll down for quick news takes and developments involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Continental collaborates on autonomous vehicle R&D in SingaporeCouncil Global Lead Partner Continental will collaborate with Singapore-based AV company...
Article - 11/15/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement, Security and privacy
Enterprise networks are getting bigger, and more complex as they grow. The responses to a survey of IT and telecommunications leaders conducted by Council Global Lead Partner Cisco yielded some very serious concerns — and hope that a solution would...
Article - 09/27/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Security and privacy
It takes smart, highly skilled people to use and manage the technologies and systems that make smart cities operate efficiently and reliably. But as the majority of CIOs will tell you, it can be a challenge to find them — in part because businesses...
Article - 03/22/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
Competition for professionals well-trained in today's evolving technologies is intense because so many industries (and cities) want them — and the supply hasn't been adequate to meet the demand. Some years ago major tech companies hit on the idea of...
Article - 12/06/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Health and human services
Scroll down for quick news takes on Smart Cities Council partners.Major advance in Schneider Electric and Microsoft collaborationThanks to a partnership between Council Lead Partners Schneider Electric and Microsoft, companies now have access to...
Article - 05/25/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Connectivity
Scroll down for quick news takes from Smart Cities Council partners.Daimler and Bosch partner on autonomous taxisCouncil Lead Partner Daimler and automotive components company Bosch are working together to bring autonomous taxis to city streets....
Article - 04/13/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Water and wastewater
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners.A smarter campus for QualcommTwo Council lead partners are working together on an intelligent LED infrastructure project that will make several buildings smarter and more responsive to occupants'...
Article - 09/22/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation
It's not uncommon for technology companies to align themselves with high schools, colleges and universities. The institutions can offer students opportunities to learn the skills they'll need to succeed in the high-tech field — and the companies...
Article - 08/25/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources
As city leaders know, today's connected citizens expect much more from their government in terms of convenient, efficient and fast delivery of services than ever before, whether it's getting a building permit or reporting a pothole. It's something...
Article - 08/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners...Schneider Electric, Black & Veatch chosen for military advanced microgrid projectCouncil Lead Partner Schneider Electric and Associate Partner Black & Veatch have been chosen to develop one...
Article - 07/12/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Waste management, Connectivity
South Africa has a tire problem – by some estimates 250,000 tons of waste tires that are a fire hazard, pollutant and breeding ground for disease-spreading vermin and mosquitoes. So along came the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of...
Article - 06/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Broad-based technology giants such as IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and Siemens are often recognized as today’s leading smart city solution vendors.Yet two other tech heavyweights -- companies best known for their chip-making prowess -- are also gaining...
Article - 04/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Connectivity
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Good reads department: IBM on Johannesburg as "a model of urban renewal" Writing for Forbes, IBM Chief Storyteller Steve Hamm puts the spotlight on Johannesburg, South Africa – in particular what he...
Article - 04/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Interoperability
Even though technology has evolved rapidly over the past several decades, the basic process for summoning emergency responders hasn’t. If you need help, you typically need to find a phone and make a voice call to an emergency number.People needing...
Article - 03/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity
Storms are challenging for utilities -- and certainly for their customers when outages occur. Resources are often stretched thin as crews try to troubleshoot and chase a multitude of problems scattered over their service area. But a newly updated...
Article - 02/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Connectivity
When your city is short of cash and raising taxes just isn’t an option, what can you do? Some cities are getting the money they need by doing a better job of collecting the on the taxes they already collect. And technology is making it easier to for...
Article - 01/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Payments, Analytics, Computing resources, Finance and procurement
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
Scroll down for short takes from Council members…S&C Electric and Space-Time Insight win innovation awards: Council Lead Partner S&C Electric Co. won the Energy Storage category in the 2014 Fierce Innovation Awards competition. Winners were...
Article - 11/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement, Computing resources
Often people think of "the cloud" as a massive data repository somewhere online where email and documents are stored for easy access. But the cloud is much more than that, and government agencies around the world are finding the cloud can help them...
Article - 10/01/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
Scroll down for the latest short takes from Council members…CH2M HILL will help modernize Polish railroad: CH2M HILL has been awarded a contract to carry out the feasibility study and design for the electrification of the 278 railway line from...
Article - 07/11/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Transportation