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The Smart Cities Council has routinely advised cities to consider smart street lighting projects as part of their smart city planning. Replacing older lighting with smart LED lights offers not only better illumination for streets and other public...
Article - 08/23/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Public safety and security
As regular readers know, the Smart Cities Council strongly recommends that cities and other local jurisdictions collaborate with each other on smart city projects. The story below offers a great illustration of how productive and cost-effective...
Article - 03/08/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security
Image courtesy of TelensaCities throughout the world have chosen to replace their legacy street lighting with energy-efficient and reliable LED networks, and the great majority of street lights are expected to be converted to LED within the next 10...
Article - 02/22/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Public safety and security, Connectivity
We've often recommended smart streetlight initiatives as a practical first step for cities envisioning a more sustainable, livable future. Yes, smart streetlight networks make streets safer and cost less than traditional lighting to operate and...
Article - 12/14/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Public safety and security, Connectivity
Scroll down for quick news takes from Smart Cities Council partners.Schneider Electric's smart controls for USMCCouncil Lead Partner Schneider Electric will provide smart controls systems as part of a major project for cutting energy use and...
Article - 03/23/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Public safety and security
Smart Cities Readiness Challenge Grant winner Miami has been going through a long-term construction boom. And that boom has led to increasing demand for city services from its growing population. Meeting citizen expectations is a big enough...
Article - 02/09/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Public safety and security
By Teena MaddoxFebruary 1, 2017The Smart Cities Council has named the 10 cities that are finalists in the Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge Grant program, and five of the cities will receive readiness workshops tailored to their smart...
Article - 02/06/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Public safety and security, Transportation, Water and wastewater
You could say that smart street lights have been the 'Next Big Thing' for smart cities for the last several years and not get much of an argument. They're often the smart city initiative cities tackle first because they promise energy efficiency...
Article - 02/02/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security
By Tim Lacey, Dow Building and ConstructionCommuters nationwide spent more than eight billion hours stuck in traffic – or 50 hours per driver – in 2015. Today, through programs like the White House Smart City Challenge, cities are working with...
Article - 02/02/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security
By James Benson, Current, Powered by GEQ: What’s next for smart street lights? A: A giant leap years in the works, networked street lights become the Internet of Things (IoT) platform to repurpose a city’s existing street lighting infrastructure. ...
Article - 02/02/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security
It's the reality so many cities know all too well. Urban populations are growing and that means more people depending on them for essential city services, whether it's mass transit, public safety, energy, water or the other services that make cities...
Article - 11/22/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Public safety and security, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
The way we drive and think about cars is changing. Several cars already have some forms of connected technologies and management systems. And car manufacturers are producing cars with complex new connectivity-dependent features like driver assist...
Article - 06/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Transportation
The northern coastal city of Tianjin, a metropolis of more than 15 million residents, is already recognized as an advanced industrial and financial hub — and China's ambitious plans to become a global leader in smart technologies are well-known....
Article - 06/08/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Public safety and security, Transportation, Connectivity
We've said if often enough: smart street light networks are an ideal launch pad for smart cities. They're highly adaptable. They're scalable. They're energy efficient. And they can help cities do so much more than provide economical lighting because...
Article - 05/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security
The first large-scale intelligent street lighting deployment is said to have happened in Europe about 10 years ago. Since then the technology has been augmented, adapted and expanded to offer much more than energy-efficient, cost-effective lighting...
Article - 05/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Transportation, Connectivity
ICT solutions and network equipment provider Huawei, a Council Associate Partner, has jumped into the smart street lighting market with its Connected City Lighting Solution, which it says is the industry's first IoT lighting offering that provides...
Article - 04/06/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Public safety and security, Connectivity
We've reported before on China's ambitious focus on smart cities. Among other things, the Chinese government expects its population to grow to 1.4 billion in 15 years. Because of that enormous challenge, smart cities are a matter of national policy...
Article - 03/25/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security
China has been taking smart cities seriously for years and is following an ambitious strategy to build them throughout the country. It doesn't have much choice. China's population of about 1.4 billion is expected to roughly double in 15 years, and...
Article - 03/11/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Computing resources
As building management systems get smarter, in some respects they also become more vulnerable. And while much of the discussion around cybersecurity today is about threats from the outside world, experts at Council Lead Partner Schneider Electric ...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Security and privacy
New projections for climate-change induced coastal flooding in the U.S. have a best-case and worst-case scenario, but even the best outcome isn’t very good. Hundreds of communities are past the so-called point of no return, which means that at least...
Article - 10/16/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Water and wastewater