Artificial Intelligence And Recycling
Recycling today is a joke. Many municipal rubbish collectors just dump recycled waste in the landfill with everything else. Furthermore, because recycling is unpleasant and expensive, many first world countries ship their waste to 3rd world countries, pay…
Smart Cities Challenge for a Better Mobility
Parsons Corporation and its partners and sponsors announced this week the first Smart Cities Challenge — titled Transforming Intersections — that will significantly increase mobility around cities and reduce the amount of time citizens spend at red lights. The goal of…
Renewable energy and electric vehicles make the future of sustainable cities
Cities play a significant role in global consumption, production, and pollution. To become sustainable, cities need to plan, innovate, and invest in their future. There are many aspects to discuss when it comes to sustainable urban transformation:…
What Is a Smart City Platform?
Cities are getting smarter. From the many small municipalities that have recently installed smart meters to measure electric power consumption, to the handful of large metropolises that have adopted a far-reaching and broad array of systems…
Smart Cities are Made Smart by Planning and Strategy
Cities around the world are making huge investments in technology that will help them provide better services, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and operate in a way that leverages the power of IoT, artificial intelligence and 5G…
The Smart Region opportunity for electric utility companies
The emergence of next generation technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, and data science, are poised to transform today’s cities into advanced smart cities. Electric utility companies, with their critical…
AI – Putting the “Smart” in Smart Lighting Solutions
In the realm of IoT, smart lighting seems so last year – people tend to think that the only feature of a smart light is the ability to remotely turn on and off the light, which is…
Building Trust in the Smart City – Think Beyond Cybersecurity and Privacy
What is trust in the smart city and why is it important? Smart city projects represent one of the hottest initiatives among city leaders, urban planners and technology vendors today. According to IDC, these initiatives will…
Ten Best Practices for Building Smart City Innovation Labs
A new wave of technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), is transforming cities into smart cities. Many of these cities are building innovation labs and zones as part of…
Smart Cities Need Better Self-Storage Solutions
When it comes to smart cities, every industry has to go through a major overhaul: mobility, waste management, utilities, and many more. But it seems the self-storage industry hasn’t yet joined the trend. Busy city dwellers…