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Smart Gets Smarter: Innovations On Home Security Systems
The home security system has been a necessity in many houses nowadays. Research shows that houses that are…
2019-05-28
How New York Is Becoming A Leading Smart City
Smart cities relate to destinations that have chosen to adopt technology, to improve a city’s efficiency for its…
2019-05-21
Redefining Agriculture With IoT-Based Monitoring
Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of objects which can directly exchange data with one another without…
2019-04-24
The Electrification Of Transport Could Transform Our Future – If We Are Prepared For It
Electric vehicles (EVs) are set to change everything about how energy is consumed and supplied. As a report…
2018-08-23
Here’s How Data Could Make Our Cities Safer
Across Europe, fast-growing cities and city regions are increasingly confronted with urban violence from extremists seeking to further…
2018-06-04
From Drone Swarms To Tree Batteries, New Tech Is Revolutionising Ecology & Conservation
Understanding Earth’s species and ecosystems is a monumentally challenging scientific pursuit. But with the planet in the grip…
2018-05-09
With Smart Cities, Your Every Step Will Be Recorded
Modern cities are brimming with objects that receive, collect and transmit data. This includes mobile phones but also objects…
2018-04-23
It’s Time To Regulate ‘Smart City’ Technology, Too
This isn’t just about Facebook: When Google is building cities and cars are turning into data-harvesting machines, the…
2018-04-17
Stop Saying ‘Smart Cities’
Digital stardust won’t magically make future cities more affordable or resilient. The term “smart city” is interesting yet…
2018-02-28
5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Help Save The Planet
From smarter electric grids to automated monitoring of at-risk environments, there are many areas where technology could have…
2018-02-13
Trading Up : How Developing Countries Can Streamline Import / Export
The fact that technology is affecting trade is not new, but the velocity, scope and systemic impact on…
2018-02-02
Smart Cities That Are Bastions For Tech Jobs, 2018
Smart city growth is at a tipping point, and there are plenty of jobs in security, analytics,…
2018-01-26
Autonomy Enables Adaptive Built Environment
Designers’ novel thinking about data, tools and methods is advancing to a point where it’s possible to foresee an…
2017-12-23
The Future Of AI Revenue : Top 10 Use Cases For AI In The Next Decade
Artificial intelligence already impacts many aspects of our daily lives at work, at home, and as we move…
2017-12-21
When Artificial Intelligence Rules The City
When we think of the city of the future, we might think about flying cars and scenes from “Star Trek”…
2017-11-03
How 70% Of Fortune 100 Companies Use The IoT
Seven out of ten Fortune 100 Companies offer IoT products, services, or initiatives. Although the Internet of Things…
2017-10-03
Smart Cities Objectives & Tactics: Work Smarter Not Harder
As the world’s biggest cities continue to sprawl with many millions of new people, they’ll look to many…
2017-09-27
5 Reasons How Smart Cities Will Fail Us
Emergent technologies are poised to radically change how we work and live. They will transform our cities and…
2017-09-19
In A Truly Smart City, Even The Daily Commute Is Productive
The alarm on your smart phone went off 10 minutes earlier than usual this morning. Parts of the…
2017-08-22
We Are Finally Realising Smart In Cities Is Not Just About Tech
Australia, one of the world’s most urbanised nations, is looking to up its investment in digital technologies to…
2017-05-09
The State Of Smart Cities, Today
The term “smart city” has been around for a few years now and is a popular topic of…
2017-04-04
To Be Smart About Cities, Have The Future In Mind
Smart cities create a symbiosis between information, the Internet of Things and technologies to make better decisions and…
2017-03-03
How Big Data Is Adding A Whole New Dimension To Public Spaces
Most of us encounter public spaces in our daily lives: whether it’s physical space (a sidewalk, a bench,…
2017-02-16
Forget The Gym. A City Must Be A Playground For Health.
When Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, arguably the “father of gymnastics” and the inventor of the horizontal and parallel bars,…
2017-01-30
The Future Of The Cloud And Data Centers Are Found In A Bakery
We live in a data-driven world. From social media to smart cities to the internet of things, we…
2017-01-16
Why The Price Of Convenience & Technology Is Our Privacy
Futuristic supermarkets promise customers the truth about their shopping, says Prof Carlo Ratti, but what are the retailers…
2016-06-13
The Obvious Need Technology Designed With Humanity
Cities are our future. Urban populations are growing globally and cities are the logical answer to using land…
2016-03-16
Future Cities & Societies Will Be Made With And Will Need New Skills
Today, the idea that data can play a key role in the design and management of cities is…
2016-03-16
Why Do We Keep Ignoring That Which Feeds Us?
By embracing the latest advances in connectivity, farms are reaping big benefits. What’s needed more than ever is…
2016-02-10
Start Asking People What They Want From The Smart Cities Of The Future
“Future cities, where infrastructure adapts to our needs, offer an enticing prospect.” But who is in the driving…
2016-01-04
The Top 3 Smart City Trends To Expect In 2016
Predictions from research firm IDC revealed three particularly interesting trends emerging around the smart cities movement. For the…
2015-12-29
How Charlotte Takes Action For Their Smart City Initiative
There’s been much discussion lately about the potential of “smart cities” and connecting data to help make communities…
2015-07-29
Why Our Personal Quiet Time Is Almost A Thing Of The Past With IoT
The internet is already a threat to quiet contemplation – but could the internet of things herald a…
2015-07-28
What Is The City That Never Sleeps? All Of Them!
One’s experience of a city at night is always singular and intimate, especially when visiting for the first…
2015-07-20
2015 Survey Honors Most Innovative, Pioneering Digital Counties
In this year’s survey, the Center for Digital Government recognises 54 counties as adaptive IT leaders, collaborators and…
2015-07-16
Australia Could Become A Leader In Cybersecurity Research
Alex Zelinsky Chief Defence Scientist, Defence Science and Technology The national science and research priorities have been developed…
2015-07-13
Smart Alerting : Shelter From The Data Storm
Here’s a fundamental paradox of today’s massively connected IT systems: the more information available to you, the less…
2015-06-17
Dan Doctoroff and Google Announce Sidewalk Labs
NEW YORK – Dan Doctoroff, the former CEO of Bloomberg LP and Deputy Mayor of Economic Development and…
2015-06-11
How Glasgow Is Reinventing Itself With Data
What will the city of the future look like? Like a lot of cities, Glasgow has an idea.…
2015-06-11
Apple WWDC 2015 : Solutions For The Urbanites
Apple’s WWDC 2015 has begun. The annual event where Apple launches new releases, major updates and products and…
2015-06-10
Will 5G Bring New Dimensions To Our Wireless World?
The hottest topic at Mobile World Congress 2015 will connect billions of people and things to the internet…
2015-05-29
The Cloud Cities Where Urban Automation Is A Reality
Remote storage, big data and the Internet of Things are often discussed separately, but together they’re the driving…
2015-05-20
Visions Of Smart City Utopia Need Urgent Reality Check
Responsive urban technology sounds enticing but citizens must not be disconnected from plans drawn up on their behalf.…
2015-05-06
The Silent Rise Of The Smart City
As Google hits the headlines for changes to its privacy rules across Europe, it is worth noting…
2015-05-04
Bristol Is Open : The Smart City Of The Future
The city of Bristol has announced a multi-million pound experiment to create the smart city of the future. Work is…
2015-04-06
Innovation In Energy Will Drive Sustainable Cities
Urbanisation makes cities a main focus for environmental policy. Digital technology and innovation will enable a better quality…
2015-02-26
Smart slums: Utopian or Dystopian Vision of the Future?
A researcher explores how smart-city sensor technology can empower or disempower slum dwellers. Life in a smart city is…
2015-02-03
Scaling Up Sensor-Based Smart Cities Proves Difficult
As Santander, Rio and other cities have demonstrated, sensor-based solutions have the potential to impact a broad range…
2015-01-31
Are You Willing To Trade Privacy For Efficiency?
Data science may be helping cities get ‘smarter’, but questions remain over how long urban populations will tolerate…
2015-01-31
The Datasets That Enable AI Advances
Training large AI models and systems require vast amounts of data. Data sources can be both publicly available…
2023-07-21