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Philip is an expert in applying technology to achieve sustainability. He has been a pioneer in resource informatics for sustainability (managing multiple resources streams via integrated data management). Philip has held senior, global positions in...
Article - 12/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Jesse came to the smart city sector from the smart grid where he was one of the pioneering thought leaders and chief analyst of SmartGridNews.com, the Internet’s oldest, largest and highest-ranked smart grid site. Prior to that he was a well-known...
Article - 12/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
For over 40 years Jon has been using technology to try to make this world a better place. He pioneered innovative, web-based technologies working for ZDNet in the 1990s and later for Smart Grid News.Today he oversees website development and...
Article - 12/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Scroll down for a look at some nice honors recently bestowed on Council members…Bechtel national security sites win sustainability awards Four national security sites that Council Lead Partner Bechtel manages and operates with industry and...
Article - 12/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Policy and leadership
Alexandria, Virginia has been selected by the Chesapeake Crescent Initiative (CCI) for its second "Safe + Smart Cities" pilot program. At no cost to its taxpayers, Alexandria will soon learn how to harden its resiliency and maximize its...
Article - 12/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Connectivity
If you’re in a serious car accident, you want help as fast as possible. Every minute that passes before help arrives equals lives lost.That’s one of the reasons Council Lead Partner IBM is involved in an ambitious project in Europe that could help...
Article - 12/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
It’s hard to imagine a time when electric utilities have had to evolve faster. The Edison Foundation Institute for Electric Innovation, a member of the Council's Advisory Board, has gathered insights from utilities across the United States as they...
Article - 12/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Each year $3.7 trillion is lost to fraud globally. "We can solve that," says Bill Maheu, Senior Director for Qualcomm Government Technologies.How many stories have you read about hospital patients being misidentified and given the wrong medication?...
Article - 12/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Connectivity, Security and privacy
A professor at Lancaster University in the UK has won £171,495 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to lead a study of how the Internet of Things (IoT) can benefit problems from flooding and agricultural pollution to animal...
Article - 12/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Research, publications and web sites
This year the city of Leavenworth, Kansas, polled its citizens twice. The first time city leaders asked for community input on seasonal public services such as the leaf pickup and snow removal programs. The second poll solicited feedback on the city...
Article - 12/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
Attempts to modernize and boost the economy of East Africa have been held back by one thing: cash. For most people who live there, cash seems to be their only option for doing business, which hinders economic growth and makes it more difficult for...
Article - 12/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Payments, Connectivity
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, China, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Computing resources, Security and privacy
With help from Council Lead Partner General Electric, the township of Potsdam, New York will be piloting a resiliency strategy that has great relevance to any city vulnerable to ice storms, hurricanes or other natural disasters.Many cities feel...
Article - 12/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Instrumentation and control
Mayor Aquanetta Warren says Fontana was one paycheck from going bankrupt in the '90s. When Sam Abed was elected mayor, Escondido had a $16 million deficit. And for incoming Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido, the challenge was gang violence on city...
Article - 12/15/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Public safety and security, Policy and leadership
Council Lead Partner Itron will supply a powerful new communications platform designed to help improve the reliability and efficiency of a large power grid in Brazil.AES Eletropaulo, which serves 6.8 million customers in the state of São Paulo,...
Article - 12/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Council Lead Partner Enel is partnering with one of China’s leading telecommunications equipment and systems companies in a collaboration that could result in new innovations for renewable energy, smart grids and electric mobility.The partnership...
Article - 12/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Instrumentation and control
In an era when most cities are strapped for cash, the opportunity to win part of a $1 million pool to improve your department should be a huge motivator. That’s the idea behind innovation funds, internal city competitions designed to inspire staff...
Article - 12/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Policy and leadership, Smart City Tools
That car you just slipped into a parking space? IBM wants to put it to work. Researchers at the IBM Research-Ireland lab contend that vehicle batteries, sensors and on-board computers can do more than help navigate roads, reports the ITS Review....
Article - 12/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
The worldwide smart cities market hasn’t quite reached $1 trillion yet, but a new research report forecasts that another major milestone won’t be far behind. Frost & Sullivan predicts the global market will be worth $1.56 trillion by 2020.That’s...
Article - 12/03/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Waste management, Research, publications and web sites
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the last of 17 themes defined in the standard: water and sanitation. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (must report)...
Article - 12/03/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control, Smart City Tools
Cities must have the support of their electric power utilities if they hope to become sustainable. And utilities must have the support of their cities. Utilities need policy and regulatory changes before they can accomplish the modernization...
Article - 12/02/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Policy and leadership
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) is the premier advocacy and policy organization for the world’s leading innovation companies. We help the world’s most recognized technology brands solve their most complex policy challenges.ITI is...
Company Information - 12/03/2014
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
To provide a safer community for its citizens, the Surat City Police Department started the ‘Safe City Project,’ an initiative striving to reduce the city’s crime rate using modern technology. Watch this video from Council Lead Partner...
Resources - 12/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Connectivity
With a population of 235,000 and growing, there are many more streets in Laredo, Texas than during its frontier past. And that was a problem for the city's utility department. It was walking those streets to read 67,543 water meters – which took a...
Resources - 12/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
This report developed by the GridWise Alliance, a Council Advisor, frames the ways in which the electric grid must evolve to meet the nation’s economic, national security, and lifestyle demands. To facilitate the development of the report...
Resources - 12/02/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Policy and leadership