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Cape Town, South Africa is using software from Council Lead Partner Microsoft to transform its infrastructure with a private cloud to standardize service delivery to all constituents. Read in this case study how Cape Town engages its citizens...
Resources - 02/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services
Siemens teamed with Duke Energy to demonstrate the results of an 18-month effort to reduce the cost and expand electric vehicle charging technologies. The demonstration proved new residential smart electric vehicle charging technologies can lower...
Resources - 02/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy
To manage and monitor its photovoltaic plant facilities, 9REN created EOSystem, a solution built on the Wonderware® System Platform from Council Lead Partner Schneider Electric. Read the case study linked below for more on the real-time monitoring...
Resources - 02/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
CenterPoint Energy is building an “Intelligent Grid” with power line monitoring equipment, remote switches, and other automated equipment that will locate power line outages as they occur. Ventyx, a subsidiary of Council Associate Partner ABB, will...
Resources - 02/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) has a long history of self-reliance when it comes to energy. Today, the campus produces 92% of its own energy. It’s striving to go further with a combination of new clean energy resources, additional...
Resources - 02/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Analytics, Computing resources, Examples and case studies
To ensure its ability to deliver clean, reliable, water to households and businesses, Yorkshire Water depends on having access to a large pool of data but found that it needed a more scalable technology infrastructure. Read in the case study linked...
Resources - 02/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management, Examples and case studies
City Harvest has 30 years of experience making the fastest connection between a donor with excess food in New York City and a person in need. Now, it’s making an even bigger difference as you'll see in the video below. By improving internal...
Resources - 02/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
The IT network at Shrewsburgy School, a boarding school in the UK, was not able to keep up with the demands being placed on it, particularly by its digitally experienced students who were expecting more and more of their devices and connectivity...
Resources - 02/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity, Examples and case studies
Below is an animated representation of Council Lead Partner GE Digital Energy's Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) and the real-world utility heroes it's designed to empower.
Resources - 02/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Watch this video to learn how Signal's social media monitoring solution for cities, which is built on Council Lead Partner Microsoft's Windows Azure, helps city leaders filter out the noise on social media and listen more effectively to its people.
Resources - 02/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity
In India, new growth centers are emerging beyond the country's six emerging metros. As growth shifts to smaller second- and third-tier cities, smart cities efforts need to be refocused on these emerging cities before growth overruns them. This...
Resources - 02/16/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Examples, SCC Spotlight Cities
Council Associate Partner OSIsoft, producer of the PI System, the leading operational data infrastructure for real-time data and events, and Esri, the global leader in geographic information systems (GIS) are partnering to execute on the vision of...
Resources - 02/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Computing resources
Germany is among the most advanced countries when it comes to recycling, and in the city of Rostock, Council Associate Partner Veolia is converting one billion plastic bottles each year into granulate used to make new bottles. Once they are...
Resources - 02/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Waste management