As a Product Manager, we can’t keep chasing the next big thing all the time. It’s true we need to understand where technology is going, but we need to be more pragmatic and realize there is no single “killer app” for anything. Particularly for IIoT. Is predictive maintenance the killer app for IIoT? Predictive maintenance […]
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What is a smart city? The answer depends on who you ask. Solutions providers will tell you it’s smart parking, smart lighting systems or anything to do with technology. City officials may say it’s about conducting city business online, such as searching records or applying for permits. City residents may tell you it’s the ease […]
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What is City Logistics? Efficient, timely and accurate delivery is a necessity to retailers and logistics providers survival in an Amazon Prime world. Smart Cities goals of livability and sustainability means they want less trucks, congestion and pollution. For all stakeholders to achieve their goals, the only answer is to work together. If cities, retailers, […]
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Since the inception of the Internet of Things (IoT), a slew of connected products is emerging resulting in a drastic change in the way consumers interact with home appliances, cars, electronics, and other types of equipment. Particularly, IIoT Applications have significantly affected industrial implications and as such are being identified in the range of the […]
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The smart city market can be observed through various lenses; however, through all of them, fragmentation is the current state. The smart city market continues to grow, presenting great opportunities for all players, despite its current fragmented state, according to IHS Markit. This fragmentation appears in the type of smart city projects developed, in the […]
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If you think cities are crowded now, just wait. Within just 15 years, more than 5 billion people will live in urban environments. Urban growth boundaries are increasingly limiting sprawl, forcing even more growth to go vertical, increasing urban density. Smart cities backed by Industrial IoT Applications will become a normal thing.. By 2020, the […]
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Parking and traffic congestion are constant sources of frustration for drivers, merchants, employers and public officials in cities worldwide. For this reason, smart parking services are top of mind with public officials, parking agencies, IT and innovation executives. Many smart city projects incorporate a smart parking element. Smart parking brings immediate value While smart parking […]
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Today, many cities are toying with the idea of becoming a “smart city” or a city that actively does everything from monitoring traffic patterns to predicting when a street light will go out to analyzing any digital information its collecting. However, while these are nice to know items that can make life easier for inhabitants, […]
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Cities are bursting at their seams and to manage the urban sprawl the strategy has been simple – Go vertical! Tall buildings, elevated transportation, vertical farming, and now vertiports! All indications even at the recently concluded Uber Elevate Summit, point to one certainty– the platform disruption is getting ready for lift-off! Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) […]
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Cities around the world are getting “smarter” everyday through the implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. “What exactly does it mean for a city to get smarter?” you ask. According to Kate Meis of Green Biz, “Smart cities are communities that are building infrastructure to continuously improve the collection, aggregation and use of data to improve the lives […]
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5G is scheduled to come in 2020. This post discusses NB-IoT use cases and its technical aspects that make it so important for the Internet of Things. NB-IoT, also known as LTE Cat NB1, is about to connect billions of devices in a smarter way. It’s cost efficient, supports lower-power consumption to use low-cost devices, […]
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According to The World Health Organization statistics, for the first time ever, the majority of the world’s population lives in a city, and this proportion continues to grow with projections of 70 percent by 2050. As cities experience this exploding growth, they have to become “smarter.” Among smart energy, smart integration, smart public services, smart […]
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