Browsing Tag
Sensors
15 posts
Internet Of Autonomous Vehicles: Improving Mobility On Our Cities
Almost nothing will happen without some form of movement. Mobility is one of the non-negotiables in urban life.…
2019-08-13
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
A Smart City Is, Because Its People Are.
By 2030, 60 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in mega-cities. How all those people…
2017-02-22
How the Internet of Things Could Transform Public Services
Cars that can communicate with each other to avoid collisions. Thermostats that can be controlled from thousands of…
2015-10-23
Driverless Buses, Coming Soon, Also Made In China
Notice anything odd about this bus tooling along a highway in China’s Henan Province? Look again. The dude…
2015-10-08
The Top 10 Cities Of The Future
If you think about it, human settlements tend to have their own gravitational pull. Like stars and planets…
2015-08-24
How Driverless Cars And Big Data Intersect in Simulated City
The fun thing about driverless cars is the cars, of course: how they recognise and stop for pedestrians,…
2015-08-20
How North Dakota Uses Drones For City Improvement
The addition of night flying opens up the opportunities to test sensor payloads in all lighting conditions. The…
2015-08-18
Would You Share Private Data For A Better City?
In the 1950s, a decade after he outlined the theory of the Big Bang and the expanding…
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
From Old Port City To Smart City
Aside from the occasional ferry down from England, the old Spanish port city of Santander doesn’t get too…
2015-03-11
The Rise Of The Sensor-Based Smart City
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second largest city, is about to be flooded. Not by storms, which have proved…
2015-02-21
6 Principles In Planning City-Level Sensor Projects
In Montreal, bus and subway riders who use the transit system’s OPUS smart fare card and have a…
2015-02-18
Wellington In New Zealand Experiments With Parking Sensors
Thousands of sensors are to be installed around Wellington to keep an eye on parking overstayers. A $1.4 million…
2015-02-18
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