Strategic Directions: Smart Cities & Utilities Report

Posted at 19 January 2018 in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Black & Veatch just released 2018 Strategic Directions: Smart Cities & Utilities Report. The report explores the current landscape of smart city efforts, as 2017 marked an inflection point for initiatives around the world. The report finds that Big Data’s potential to improve community quality of life while making critical human infrastructure more efficient and sustainable is overcoming lingering fears about costs. Bold advances in data analytics, electric transportation and next-generation communications systems are propelling smart city development, while creative financing strategies challenge old notions about massive upfront investments.

Panasonic’s Colorado Smart City project under way

Posted at 18 January 2018 in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Two years ago, in 2016, electronics giant Panasonic teamed up with the city of Denver, Colorado, to create a futuristic smart city from scratch, using a 400-acre stretch of available land near the Denver International Airport. It was envisaged as a decade-long project, but just two years later, the steps being made to apply technology to the new city’s road system show that considerable progress is already being made and the project is under way.

Truly Smart Cities need Decentralized Data

Posted at 18 December 2017 in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Smart cities are an extremely popular concept in recent years. As cities grow and technology advances, cities around the world are adopting smart technologies such as smart traffic lights, street lights, and a multitude of sensors for weather, traffic, water and power, which are making them more efficient and environmentally friendly, and improve quality of life.

Smart Cities could save over $5 trillion annually by 2022

Posted at 6 December 2017 in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

The implementation of smart city technologies could save enterprises, governments and citizens a total of over $5 trillion globally per year, by 2022, according to a new white paper by ABI research, which has analyzed the scope for cost savings and efficiency as a driver for smart city deployments, smart technologies and the Internet of Things.

Smart Cities made even smarter by new technologies

Posted at 1 December 2017 in Intelligent / Smart Cities Solutions, Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

As city dwellers swell in number, reaching half the world’s population for the first time in history, the need to increase quality of life in cities is more pressing than ever. In this respect, the sudden availability of new technology comes at exactly the right time.

New technologies can make smart cities even smarter, by incorporating new solutions and capabilities such as artificial intelligence, sensor-driven analytics to solve pressing challenges that cities face, easing traffic, boosting economic growth, and improving access to government services for all residents.

Human rights aspects in India’s Smart City Mission: a study by HLRN, India

Posted at 30 November 2017 in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

India’s Smart Cities Mission aims to create 100 ‘smart cities’ in the country by the year 2020. The Mission, one of the most publicized among the many slogan-led schemes of the National Democratic Alliance government, is characterized by ambitious goals, large planned investments, multiple private sector actors, and new governance structures induced by the corporatization of cities. As the Mission completed two years in June 2017, the Housing and Land Rights Network of India (HLRN) examines how it has unfolded and what exactly it means for India’s urban

EasyPark: 2017 Smart Cities Index

Posted at 27 November 2017 in IntelCities Measurement, Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

EasyPark recently published a very interesting interactive report on the 2017 Smart Cities Index. To create the index, they first studied over 500 cities worldwide, looking at countries with very high and medium