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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 announcement this week that Kansas City is expanding its Smart City program didn't come as much of a surprise. The program, which kicked off two years ago in conjunction with its KC Streetcar project, was initiated in relatively small but...
Article - 06/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
It sounds like a smart cities project: set up areas to serve as living labs so smart technologies and applications can be tested as solutions for local problems. There is no dominant city in the area, so San Mateo County and its partners are using a...
Article - 05/24/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
It takes smart, highly skilled people to use and manage the technologies and systems that make smart cities operate efficiently and reliably. But as the majority of CIOs will tell you, it can be a challenge to find them — in part because businesses...
Article - 03/22/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
A few weeks ago we published a story on Council Global Lead Partner Oracle's innovative strategy to provide a high-tech education program for high school students — as a way to help fill the talent gap in technology professions. A recently released...
Article - 12/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Telecommunications, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
If the explosion of data hasn’t reached your city yet, it will soon. Cities are generating more data than ever, raising questions about how to store and process it all — and keep it secure. And Oakland is a great example of why more cities are...
Article - 07/06/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer confined to the realm of science fiction. It’s becoming reality, already playing a role in transforming some corporate call centers. But as the technology grows, it could also radically shape the way that...
Article - 05/18/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
We’ve said it before: data and the effective use of it is what makes a city a smart city. But that doesn’t mean that all of the data needs to be your data. Or that you even need to be the one to find the best and highest use for it.From inspiring...
Article - 04/13/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management
Data by itself doesn’t make a city smart. What makes a city smart is its ability to act on it immediately. The Internet of Things helps make data in the field a real-time tool, but you still need a strong backbone to carry and process it. That’s why...
Article - 04/06/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
Your city may do a good job collecting data, but what do you actually do with it? To get at the insights that can help you truly advance your city, you need a strategy. Uncovering insights that truly make a difference doesn’t happen by accident.We...
Article - 03/02/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management
Smart cities are connected cities – and connected cities generate massive amounts of data. In some ways harnessing all that data, making sense of it and using it effectively is a headache. But more and more city leaders are realizing the value of...
Article - 03/02/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
It’s easy to be swayed by anecdotes. If someone makes an impassioned plea based on a personal experience, it’s easy to give that view a strong weighting, especially in the absence of strong overall data.New York City’s Car Free Earth Day provides a...
Article - 03/02/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management
When an Illinois County public works department realized it needed to significantly expand the scope of its planned water meter reading upgrade to include improved customer billing and service, leak detection and water conservation – and cut costs...
Article - 03/02/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Data management
Predictive policing, the process of using data and analytics to anticipate where and when crimes will occur, has taken a lot of heat from critics who say it encourages discrimination against certain segments of the population and racial profiling....
Article - 11/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management
Simone Brody worked in high level occupations in the public and private sectors before heading up the What Works Cities initiative which, among other things, is committed to help cities accelerate their data use to help people improve their lives....
Article - 09/29/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management
Building energy management systems figure heavily in ensuring sustainable and livable smart cities by reducing energy costs, reducing pollution (commercial buildings account for a lot of pollution—about 40%) and making the building environment more...
Article - 08/11/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
By Kathryn Willson, Director, Microsoft CityNextOften we hear about the “public trust.” While its common-law roots refer to the air, rivers, and lands commons to be shared by all citizens, the term today also connotes an attribute of the...
Article - 06/24/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management, Security and privacy
By Mike Smith and Jennifer Robinson, SASIn a 2004 bid to make the Republic of Singapore the first “smart” nation, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong began deploying numerous sensors across the island to track everything from cleanliness to traffic....
Article - 06/24/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management
Winters in North America can be challenging for some cities. The cold weather drives-up energy consumption costs and snow accumulations can bring road networks to a halt. The 53,510 citizens of Blainville, a city located in the greater...
Article - 06/23/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management
A few years ago, only big tech companies had positions like Chief Data Officer or Chief Innovation Officer. Now cities are finding value in the job — as they should.But the job requirements may not be exactly what you expect. Consider Ali Farahani,...
Article - 06/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management, Policy and leadership
Texas is wet today, but two years ago nearly half the state was suffering from extreme drought. And with a population that’s expected to double over the next 50 years, it’s likely to run dry again.Ensuring that everyone has enough and that the water...
Article - 03/25/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Data management
The federal government has just put out a package of federal and local data that could be useful for city leaders, policy makers, technology developers and others to help them build stronger communities and deal with economic inequities many...
Article - 03/11/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management
When Con Edison of New York and Orange and Rockford electric utilities decided they needed to improve how they respond to customers and meet their needs, upgrade their energy network and do a better job of managing their electric grid they chose to...
Article - 03/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
Contributed by Open Geospatial ConsortiumThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the initiative sponsors: Ordnance Survey Great Britain, Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN) France, city of Sant Cugat del Vallès (...
Article - 02/12/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management, Interoperability
At first glance, open data and sustainable agriculture may seem like a strange combination. But it makes perfectly good sense if you look at how the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Council Lead Partner Microsoft put the two together....
Article - 02/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Analytics, Data management
Contributed by Imex SystemsMost governments have adopted a commitment to further transparency and accountability, which in turn has bolstered the movement to open data.One of the big challenges in opening up this data is that it resides in many...
Article - 02/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
We've all been predicting that Open Data and other smart city technologies would lead to a new era of government transparency and accountability. But let's be honest -- many cities just give lip service to the concept. Others put up Open Data, but...
Article - 02/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management
The first order of business in a smart city (or county or province or country) is to get the data needed to understand conditions. And to get it in real time, not days or weeks or months later, when it's often too late to help.Here's a novel way to...
Article - 02/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Data management
Cities have enough problems to deal with. Urban populations are growing at accelerating rates and that growth is putting pressure on all manner of city services, whether it's traffic congestion management, public safety and crime, healthcare and...
Article - 01/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Responsibility areas, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
After learning that how it had been collecting and analyzing the country's economic statistics was inaccurate and failed to present an adequate representation of the economy, the UK government took steps to correct the problem.But it also decided to...
Article - 01/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Analytics, Data management
Council Lead Partner Schneider Electric is deploying more than 4,000 weather stations in locations throughout the country to provide the agricultural industry with a more accurate view of weather patterns. The thinking behind the project is that if...
Article - 12/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management
At 55%, Tacoma's high school graduation rate was well below the national average of 81%. Fortunately, with help from Council Lead Partner Microsoft and its integrated IT solutions -- and the data available in existing school records, the graduation...
Article - 11/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Responsibility areas, Health and human services, Analytics, Data management
Anyone familiar with the terms 'analytics' or 'Big Data' knows how valuable the data collected from all those meters, sensors and other smart devices can be when it is translated into intelligence cities can actually use to help both employees and...
Article - 11/06/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management
Poverty. Infectious disease outbreaks. Preparations for natural disasters. All are big problems that may not seem to have answers.But a new effort helps to show governments of all levels that they may already have the answers. The key is to pull...
Article - 11/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
Building permits aspire to be the next transit times. When cities standardized the way they reported transit conditions, it launched a wave of services and apps to help people better plan their trips. Now cities wonder what software developers could...
Article - 07/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management
Many organizations today are working toward or planning to conduct big data projects, but the great majority of those efforts are doomed to fail, according to an SAP blog.Why is that?In a webcast titled "Operationalizing IoT Data for Predictive...
Article - 07/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management, 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
A new effort named Espresso is designed to perk up the business of transmitting data over power lines. Council Lead Partner Enel is leading the effort, which enlists researchers, government agencies and other companies to find ways to turn...
Article - 03/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
The ability to collect and analyze location information can open a treasure trove of insights that smart cities can use to make their communities more livable. For cities that haven’t already started using this data, a new white paper can help them...
Article - 03/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management, Interoperability
In most parts of the world, this would be a completely useless description of a bank robber: white male, 30-45 years old, bandage on the left side of his neck. Thanks to advanced database technology, however, that’s all detectives needed to find the...
Article - 02/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
The term open data refers to data that’s free for people to view and analyze on their own, but the process itself for making that data available hasn’t necessarily been open. A new coalition backed by some industry giants aims to change that.As its...
Article - 02/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management, Interoperability
Efforts to reform the Los Angeles fire department have been anything but easy. As the city reiterates its pledge to improve response times, it’s becoming more transparent than ever about how well it is – or isn’t – performing.The city has launched a...
Article - 11/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management
Machine learning technology is expected to spawn a new generation of smart cities solutions that take action based on analysis of data collected from sensors and other sources. And the launch of Azure Machine Learning (ML) from Council Lead Partner...
Article - 09/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
Sometimes it’s hard to map out exactly how open data helps create smarter cities. But a new project from MIT Media Labs is helping people see the benefits of open data with maps.The Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab is tapping open data...
Article - 06/27/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Analytics, Data management
Frost & Sullivan is a leading research and consulting firm and Brian Cotton leads their Information and Communications Technology Consulting (ICT) practice. Since ICT is the core of a smart city, I'm pleased that we can share this guest post...
Article - 10/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management, Finance and procurement, Instrumentation and control
We recently warned you not to let your police department become a guinea pig for the unproven Google Glass technology. Now comes Government Technology magazine with a sneak preview of an upcoming trade show showcasing ideas that ARE ready for prime...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
You will want to skim this Economist article on smart cities for its warnings about what could go wrong; for its hints on the things that are stalling the market; for its anecdotes of cities doing it right; and for its optimistic conclusion that the...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management, Policy and leadership
Property crime down 24%. Violent crime down 9%. Those reductions came as a result of the Vancouver PD's gradual adoption of analytics-led policing starting in 2008. Nor are such results unusual -- I hear similar numbers from police departments all...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management
You will enjoy the video below and this post from ArchDaily, the world's most visited architecture site. They describe a "smart highway" project that won a prestigious design award. I walked away with two reminders. First, we already have plenty of...
Article - 09/04/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
You'll notice confirmation of several important trends embedded in this Bloomberg article about smart sensors.Intelligence is migrating to the edges. It's not feasible to manage millions of field sensors from a giant brain in the center. Instead,...
Article - 08/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control
Thanks to support from Smart Cities Council Lead Partner IBM, the Dublin City University has created a new masters degree that specifically references smart cities. I think you'll want to skim the release below not just for the announcement, but...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management, Policy and leadership
A new report from market research firm Frost & Sullivan underlines what has already become apparent in the field. Transportation is one of the most common flash points for a smart city. The equation seems to work like this: Transportation...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
You'll spot several important trends in the release below. For one, Nice, France is rapidly becoming a smart city hotspot, through a series of commercial partnerships combined with federal and local government support. For another, a smart city is...
Article - 06/25/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Analytics, Data management
Three things to note as you review this latest smart mobility success story from IBM:1. Most observers think transportation is the single biggest growth sector in smart cities. The pain is so immediate. The frustration is so high. As a result,...
Article - 05/18/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control
Don't assume that India will necessarily be a smart cities laggard. Consider these factoids from a recent article in CXO Today:The Indian government announced plans to set up two smart cities in every state30 Indians leave rural areas for the city...
Article - 04/26/2013
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Analytics, Data management, Policy and leadership
Microsoft's foray into smart building management represents the holy grail -- namely, an application that improves sustainability and improves resident satisfaction while also paying for itself. If we can help cities get started with high-payoff...
Article - 04/22/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
You’ve done enough research to know that data management is an important first step in dealing with big data or starting any analytics project. But you’re not too proud to admit that you’re still confused about the differences between master data...
Resources - 06/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Data management
The IoT promises to create a highly efficient world that demands constant analysis of the state of events based on the sensor and machine communications happening all around us. Connected, communicating devices – what we call the “Internet of Things...
Resources - 06/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Data management
Orange County's Department of Child Support Services was looking for a way to take the guesswork out of child support payments. The solution the department hit on was Big Data. Read the discussion to learn how software from SAS Institute gave the...
Resources - 05/26/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Data management
When city leaders commit to creating a smart city, they need to determine how to orchestrate the convergence of diverse systems, from transportation to water and the electric grid and more, into a smart integrated infrastructure. Read the discussion...
Resources - 03/06/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management