Jersey City – redefining SMART based on residents needs
Jersey City has implemented smart city plans and projects aiming to improve the lives of its citizens and created mobility projects to streamline resources while meeting neighborhood-specific needs. Jersey City…
A Holistic Approach to Smart Rail in Smart Cities
ARC smart cities analyst Wasay Rashid was interviewed by Dave Songer, editor of Smart Rail World Magazine. This episode focusses on intelligent infrastructure, smart cities, the future of transportation, and…
Smart Columbus – building blocks for a better future
The Smart Columbus project started with the mission to accelerate human progress through open mobility. Essential to developing a smart city was not only data collection and state of the…
Planning a Smart City – a podcast by ARC Advisory
ARC Advisory started a series of podcasts focused on Smart Cities. The first episode focuses on Planning a Smart City and looks deeper into the needed technology, actors, and the…
AcceliCITY Selects World’s Most Promising Smart City Startups
In 2018, Leading Cities, a global nonprofit for Smart City growth and collaboration, launched AcceliCITY—a global Smart City startup competition that provides potential capital from a network of investors as…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
The IoT and the Creation of Smart Roads
If cars are getting smarter, roads should as well…Smart technology and the Internet of Things ( IoT ) are changing the world in a huge way. One of the biggest…
What makes a smart city smart?
Half the world lives in cities. By 2050 that figure will rise to 70 percent, boosted by the 2.2 billion more people who will live on the planet at mid-century.…
Today’s smart cities versus connected and sustainable cities of the future
As a concept, ‘ smart city ’ has been on the agenda for the last decade to make the cities more productive, more sustainable and ‘smarter.’ According to a survey,…