Smart street lamps that can charge electric vehicles and boost wireless coverage will be rolled out in towns and cities across UK, as part of a £1.3 million (€1.49 million) pilot to test next-generation digital technologies. With rising demand for wireless services, companies are increasingly exploring opportunities to install infrastructure on lamp posts, traffic lights, CCTV (closed circuit television) columns, benches, bins and bus stops. (more…)
September 27, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Honeywell and Accelerator for America have announced the launch of the Honeywell Smart City Accelerator Programme to help cities strategically plan their futures and build capacity to fund transformational initiatives. Honeywell is engaging with five U.S. cities to provide in-kind support to accelerate progress on their smart city strategic planning. The cities are Cleveland, Louisville, Ky., Kansas City, Mo., San Diego, and Waterloo, Iowa. (more…)
October 18, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Event date: April 10 – April 11, 2019
London, UK
Smart to Future Cities & Urban IoT returns to London in 2019 for its 8th edition; the only
European centric Smart Cities event to really focus on practical, scalable applications of smart city initiatives to improve infrastructure and quality of life.
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March 5, 2019
Posted by: IoT global network
Event date: 25 – 26 April 2018
Radisson Blu Portman Square, London
For cities with a smart vision, the need for alternative procurement, effective partnership models and innovative but economical technology solutions is more important than ever. Given the extent of the smart city challenge, opportunities to gain insight, knowledge and experience are essential.
April 5, 2018
Posted by: IoT Global Network
Convened by the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, the Smart City Innovation Accelerator gathered one of the largest groups of city CTOs in Dublin’s Smart Docklands District. The focus was on the development of ‘Smart Districts’ using Dublin’s Docklands as an exemplar and a model for innovation. (more…)
February 14, 2018
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde
Huawei is participating in the Smart City Expo World Congress 2017 (SCEWC) in Barcelona under the theme of “Leading New ICT, Creating a Smart City Nervous System”. This highlights how a Smart City can be like a living organism that works seamlessly to continuously learn and enhance the city’s services. (more…)
November 16, 2017
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde
From wearable fitness technology to ‘smart’ fridges and home heating systems, the Internet of Things and intelligent devices are having a big impact on how we live our lives, often in ways we don’t realise. (more…)
June 19, 2017
Posted by: Avadhoot Patil
A new report from Navigant Research examines the current state of global smart city development, covering the related aspects of the smart energy, smart water, smart transportation, smart buildings, and smart governments sectors, segmented by region. (more…)
March 20, 2017
Posted by: Avadhoot Patil
CityVerve, is a UK government-funded smart city demonstrator based in Manchester. Here, Jeremy Cowan talks to Nick Chrissos, head of Innovation Technology, Cisco UKI — Cisco is one of the 21 organisations which are part of the CityVerve consortium — to get an overview of the CityVerve project (more…)
February 17, 2017
Posted by: Avadhoot Patil
In 2016, 42 million adults (82%) in Great Britain accessed the internet every day, 26 million more than ten years earlier. The network underpinning this dramatic increase in demand needs to become smarter, and more automated to provide the secure access and connectivity demanded by those users. (more…)
January 11, 2017
Posted by: Avadhoot Patil