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This year's Quality of Life survey from lifestyle, culture and design magazine Monocle gave top honors to Tokyo as the world's most livable city in its listing of the top 25 best places to live. Portland, Oregon also made the list – with the...
Article - 06/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Connectivity
It's easy to imagine the difficulties firefighters face when confronted with a fire in a structure they may know next to nothing about. Lives can be lost, injuries suffered and property losses can be staggering. The National Institute of Standards...
Article - 06/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Connectivity
When it comes to Internet service, the only thing faster than gigabit is the growth in the demand for it. But a new system from Allied Telesis could soon help service providers guarantee fast service to more people -- especially people who live in...
Article - 06/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Computing resources, Connectivity
For students with serious illnesses that keep them out of the classroom for extended periods of time, the consequences can reach beyond simply falling behind in their education. Deprived of the day-to-day social interaction with fellow students and...
Article - 06/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
New markets are unleashed when key platforms emerge, allowing different products from different companies to work together seamlessly. But every market has multiple platforms contending to be number one, so we typically go through years of...
Article - 06/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
Adapting EV battery technology for home and industrial energy storage plants isn’t a new concept. Several car makers have worked to develop the technology. But it took automotive upstart Tesla to successfully take EV battery-based energy storage to...
Article - 06/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Code for America (CfA) revealed its latest lineup of apps from eight cities working with CfA technologists in this year's fellowship program.CfA partners with 8-10 local governments each year to develop innovative digital approaches to delivering...
Article - 06/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Finance and procurement
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) formed a new study group to tackle standardization requirements for the Internet of Things, with an initial focus on IoT applications in smart cities.According to the announcement from the ITU, which...
Article - 06/12/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Connectivity, Interoperability
Ports are prime economic engines for many cities and -- excluding a relatively brief decline during the financial crisis of 2008-2009 -- the volume of goods moved by ship grew from roughly 3.3 billion metric tons in 1985 to 9.6 billion in 2013....
Article - 06/12/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Transportation, Connectivity
Read the announcement below with care, since it encapsulates at least three important smart city trends.The first is the growing desire by cities for a smart city (pick your buzzword of choice) "framework" or "platform" or "foundation." Cities no...
Article - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
From improving healthcare and agricultural yields to meeting energy and water needs as urban populations soar, Intel is on a mission to bring bright minds together to find solutions. The latest examples: a big data analytics lab near Paris and an...
Article - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity
You hear a lot of talk about Big Data. But what's really needed is Big Insights. You don't want to drown in the data tsunami. Rather you want your system to parse that data on its own and pull out the key alerts, issues, and opportunities for your...
Article - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Already partners in Formula One racing, Council Lead Partners Mercedes-Benz and Qualcomm are now working together to push wireless electric vehicle charging into the mainstream. The companies are betting on Qualcomm's Halo charging technology rather...
Article - 06/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Connectivity
It’s happening in almost every sector imaginable: consumer expectations are rising quickly. They want better products and services tailored to their wants and needs. And the hospitality industry is no different. When people travel, they expect the...
Article - 06/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity
"Mobile first!" is the catch phrase for many tech companies these days, and for many cities. More and more people are accessing the world through their smartphones rather than their personal computers. Since the mobile interface is more constrained...
Article - 06/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity
Hospitals are under enormous pressure to keep their costs down and improve the bottom line. They’re looking for ways to achieve greater operating efficiency to reduce costs. The “smart” bedside terminal can address most of these challenges. This all...
Resources - 06/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity, 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
A convergence is happening between smart grid platforms and smart city platforms. Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Silver Spring Networks about the opportunities that provides cities to take advantage of a common infrastructure to...
Resources - 06/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Emerald ash borer infestation was detected for the first time in Canada in 2002 and in Quebec in 2008. According to Natural Resources Canada, “Canadian Forestry Service scientists estimate that the costs to Canadian municipalities for the treatment...
Resources - 06/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
More than half the world’s population live in cities. By 2050, 70% of the world’s people will be urban dwellers. With payments at the heart of a city’s economic activity and success, the efficient handling of funds will become increasingly important...
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Payments, Connectivity