This Navigant Research white paper provides insights into key issues that will shape the smart grid market in the months and years ahead, with summary forecasts of smart grid, smart metering, and automated demand response markets. The white paper also compares the development of these markets across different world regions. Continue reading…

According to a report by GBI research, as Information Communication Technology and Smart Cities develop, the need for cyber security becomes an essential requirement. Smart security represents a core product within the smart cities market, due to the growing complexity of data management, which now presides over much of our day to day life, and the resulting threat of viruses and malware. Continue reading…

This open access special issue of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (JTAER) on Applications for Smart Cities has been edited by Hans Schaffers (Aalto University, Centre of Knowledge and Innovation Research), Carlo Ratti (MIT, Senseable City Laboratory) and Nicos Komninos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, URENIO Research). Continue reading…

The Hype Cycle of Smart City Technologies is Gartner’s second analysis of the range of technologies that can be used in smart cities. The Hype charts the position of technologies that support smart city solutions, ranging from mobility and parking to healthcare, energy and water management, Continue reading…

The city of San Francisco has managed to dranatically cut greenhouse emissions by switching to a mostly hybrid taxi fleet. San Francisco’s achievement can be a model for the rest of the USA and the world, but a similar initiative in New York has failed. Continue reading…

Contiki is an open source operating system for the Internet of Things. Contiki is used in a wide variety of systems such as city sound monitoring, street lights, networked electrical power meters, industrial monitoring, radiation monitoring, construction site monitoring, Continue reading…

Chicago’s new Open311 brings unprecedented new levels of openness, innovation and accountability to the delivery of City services. The city is trying to reinvent and reinvigorate City service delivery with the latest in digital technologies. Continue reading…

Cumulative investment in smart government technology between 2011 and 2017 will be almost $4.8 billion, the report finds.  Annual investment in smart government technologies in North America alone will surpass Continue reading…

Following the Kickstarter’s success in funding creative projects, a number of civic crowdfunding platforms has been launched in order to help people invest in places and civic projects they care about. These platforms take the current trend of crowdfunding and apply it to community-centric projects helping cities to “kickstart” urban innovation. Continue reading…

Prepared for the United Nations Global Pulse team, PSFK’s Future of Real-Time Report identifies key trends emerging around the capture and transmission of real-time information streams. Communities and organizations can learn from the themes in PSFK’s Future of Real-Time report to create new solutions that support the care and well-being of the world’s population. Continue reading…