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As cities develop and populations continue to grow, there is one common challenge most places face: transportation. In southwest Germany near the French border, Karlsruhe, the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, has had a three-...
Article - 12/10/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water, Wellness, Shelter, Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Responsibility areas, Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Payments, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation
Calgary, Alberta already has a track record for innovation, thanks to its commitment to a long-term vision for a communication infrastructure that connects as many assets as possible to improve city services. And that commitment is yielding...
Article - 12/06/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
The 1st SmartCitiesCouncil® - Europe Stakeholders’ Assembly recently took place in Dublin, Ireland on the 9th of November. The day’s theme was Accelerating your innovation economy and focused on how smart city solutions can advance innovation and...
Article - 11/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Economic development, Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Waste management, The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Data management, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership, Smart City Examples, SCC Spotlight Cities
It's been said that China has not been as quick as other Asian countries such as Singapore, Japan and South Korea to embrace and develop smart cities, but the country has been making progress. And the announcement at the Fourth China International...
Article - 08/23/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Payments, Telecommunications, Transportation
Readers know that the Council regularly advises cities to partner with each other and the private sector to ensure successful outcomes for their smart city projects. If you attended Smart Cities Week in Washington, D.C. earlier this month you heard...
Article - 10/19/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Water and wastewater
We've stressed several times what a tremendous asset an experienced partner can be in a city's efforts to become a successful, resilient smart city. The announcement this week from Council Lead Partner Cisco that it will provide a manufacturing hub...
Article - 10/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity
The Dubai South Business Park Free Zone is already a bustling center for aviation, finance, general trading and other businesses. But city leaders recognized the need to greatly enhance the services it provides for them. For other cities considering...
Article - 07/14/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity
The technologies that help make cities smart, livable and sustainable range from stationary and mobile sensors, video cameras and -- as we'll likely be seeing in a few short years -- connected cars.All of those Internet of Things-connected devices...
Article - 04/01/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity
The Thai government's focus on Phuket as its first smart city project aligns closely with its national policy of building a digital economy and a digital society.The national policy is ambitious. Not only does it address digital infrastructure and a...
Article - 01/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Data management
The vision of smart cities in India is incredible and rational, but the smart city project needs to be designed wisely.Smart Cities Council India, has been formed to promote development of smart cities, which will launch an India Readiness Guide to...
Article - 11/04/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Telecommunications
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…GE's big battery energy storage project dubbed a "game changer"Council Lead Partner GE will provide a 30-MW battery energy storage system as part of Coachella Energy Storage Partners' supply contract...
Article - 08/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, 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
Montreal -- Quebec, Canada's largest city – already takes pride in its reputation as a digital technology center. Now it wants to be a world-class model of a smart city. It worked hard to decide what route to take.In 2014 Montreal established a...
Article - 05/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
The adoption rate for the Internet of Things (IoT), the M2M technology made possible by the connectivity of secure networks and cloud infrastructure, is growing – and that growth will accelerate as more and more applications take advantage of its...
Article - 05/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, 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
A Worldcrunch report on the China Hi-Tech Fair held recently in Shenzen suggests there's been a shift – or rebalancing – in how China is managing the growth of its cities. It notes that foreign giants including Council Partners IBM, Microsoft, Cisco...
Article - 12/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Computing resources, Security and privacy
Within the next decade, there will be 30 mega cites around the world, half concentrated in a handful of developing economies, according to research by Frost & Sullivan.Africa is poised to get one, and its smart cities drive is one of the main...
Article - 11/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Computing resources, Connectivity
There’s no question why communities want super high-speed gigabit Internet service. Cities that have it, like Chattanooga, Tenn., and Kansas City, Mo., have attracted high-tech companies, creating thousands of jobs.Given the economic gains on the...
Article - 08/20/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity
In the process of researching our forthcoming Smart Cities Readiness Guide, we learned about the importance of high-speed fiber-optic networks. To quote this useful article from Governing Magazine, "a fiber-optic network can be 200 times faster than...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
We explained how Christchurch New Zealand was taking advantage of a recent earthquake as an excuse to retrofit the city with sensors. But of course you don't want to wait for a natural disaster to motivate the troops. Here's a different option, also...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership