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Predicting what's to come in a new year is at worst guesswork and at best a well-reasoned forecast based on the evolution of trends and developments, things we already know about, that look like they'll have a trajectory well into the future. The...
Article - 01/17/2019
Active Region(s): North America
According National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the start-ups in India witnessed a 108% growth in total funding from $2 billion in 2017 to $4.2 billion in 2018. During the year, more than 1,200 startups came up,...
Article - 01/14/2019
Active Region(s): India
Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand has welcomed with much excitement the appointment of Romilly Madew as Infrastructure Australia’s new Chief Executive Officer.“As a long-time friend and industry champion that has relentlessly advocated for...
Article - 01/13/2019
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Accelerate your smart city progressThe third annual Smart Cities Readiness Challenge is open for applications — and you don’t have to win to be a winner!Start your application >How to enter (and how to win)Click to get access to an online...
Article - 01/11/2019
Active Region(s): North America
To enable professional customers to unlock the full potential of connected lighting for the Internet of Things (IoT), Signify (formerly known as Philips Lighting) launched its new IoT platform. This interactive IoT Platform—Interact—enables...
Article - 01/11/2019
Active Region(s): India
Although smart cities have been provided with some seed money from the Centre and the state, with some to be generated from their own budget, the financial requirement still remains huge as smart city plan has to benefit the entire city and not just...
Article - 01/10/2019
Active Region(s): India
By connecting places, they facilitate the movement of goods and services and people, thereby ensuring a means of livelihood for those who would otherwise be cut off from the rest of the population. Typically, as bridges in difficult-to-reach...
Article - 01/10/2019
Active Region(s): India
As the New Year takes off, Johan Paulsson, Chief Technology Officer, Axis Communications, has curated some security predictions of the surveillance industry for the year 2019. These are expected to be the focus points for the year.Artificial...
Article - 01/10/2019
Active Region(s): India
Shimoga, also known as Shivamogga, is a large city and the district headquarters of Shivamogga district in the central part of Karnataka. Situated 569-meter above sea level and gateway to the hilly region of the Western Ghats, the city lies on the...
Article - 01/09/2019
Active Region(s): India
We looked back to see which of our articles published in 2018 were the most popular. We published opinion pieces, interviews, video's and guest commentary. From heritage, big data and BIM, to standardisation, connected infrastructure and urban...
Article - 01/08/2019
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Floods are devastating natural disasters worldwide – it is estimated that every year, 250 million people around the world are affected by floods, also costing billions of dollars in damages. Flood forecasting can help individuals and authorities...
Article - 01/03/2019
Active Region(s): India
The need for Smart Cities becomes apparent from the development dilemma – the faster the nation’s development, the greater is the strain on its limited resources, including higher demand for energy that intensifies the impact on climate change...
Article - 01/03/2019
Active Region(s): India
Indian cities are expected to house 200 million people by 2030. Driven by soaring numbers, India is expected to account for a 25 per cent rise in global energy usage by 2040, leading to a higher carbon footprint. The immense strain on the...
Article - 01/02/2019
Active Region(s): India
Waste management is a serious concern globally, and Bengaluru is no exception. To mitigate the waste menace, and, the same put to good use, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has started generating electricity from waste. The corporation’...
Article - 01/02/2019
Active Region(s): India
Shirpur, one of the drought-prone areas in Maharashtra, has always witnessed insufficient water supply, depleting rainfalls and extreme summer heat. Yet dripping pipes, spilling water on the roads, washing vehicles with oodles of water was a common...
Article - 01/02/2019
Active Region(s): India
Reflecting on the year that has just passed is a time-honored tradition. And for those of us involved in smart cities that reflection provides an opportunity to evaluate the events and trends that could influence the decisions we make as we move...
Article - 12/31/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Shelter
One of the main challenges Krakow faces is quality of life, but now the city is looking to fix that with goals put in place that will make the city a better—and smarter—place to live. From tackling environmental pollution to improving educational...
Article - 12/31/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
For the past 43 years since the Turkish invasion, Cyprus’ ghost town of Famagusta on the island’s eastern coast has been sitting untouched and uninhabited. In the 1960s and 1970s, these sandy shores were booming with tourism thanks to the growing...
Article - 12/31/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Considering the fast growth of Surat and increasing demands and expectations of citizens from the city-government, Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has envisaged a Smart City Plan to serve citizens in an effective manner. For the corporation, to...
Article - 12/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
According to a recent report published by Assocham and EY, Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to reach an estimated 2 billion connections in India, unlocking revenues of $11.1 billion by 2022.The reports states, by 2022, five mobile...
Article - 12/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
By mid-2019, the Hubballi Dharwad Smart City will implement Command & Control Centre components and other IoT enabled smart ICT systems. The technology is provided by Japan-based NEC Corporation’s Indian arm, NEC Technologies.The city will...
Article - 12/26/2018
Active Region(s): India
India’s biggest cities are subjected to traffic congestion every day, and the commuters are bearing the burden. Transport demand in India has increased by almost eight times since the 1980s as rapid economic development and increasing wealth among...
Article - 12/26/2018
Active Region(s): India
Smart Cities Council India (SCCI) in association with Pune Smart City Development Corporation organised a Think Table meet on December 6, 2018, at Pune. The meet focused on various standardisation initiatives to be adopted in the smart cities. Smart...
Article - 12/24/2018
Active Region(s): India
Puducherry is in the process of evolving from E-Governance to Digital Governance and building digital capacities. In line with the flagship Digital India programme of Government of India, the Government of Puducherry has introduced and implemented...
Article - 12/21/2018
Active Region(s): India
Methanol is typically produced from natural gas or coal, so for cities looking to make the transition to low carbon, what is the solution to going green? At a new waste-to-chemical facility under development in the Port of Rotterdam in the...
Article - 12/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
When it comes to verifying identity on digital applications, passwords are the most common method. But what if cities want to ensure that the citizens accessing their apps are actually who they say they are? Welcome to the world of digital identity...
Article - 12/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
When it comes to smart cities projects, there’s what people are saying and what people are doing. Our monthly Inside Look series tracks the latter by examining what cities are planning, soliciting and buying. Below, you’ll learn about some of the...
Article - 12/20/2018
Active Region(s): North America
How prepared is your city for a natural disaster? Disasters are taking increasingly large tolls on communities — and it’s the cities that are often relied on for first response.The Smart Cities Council, in partnership with the Consumer Technology...
Article - 12/20/2018
Active Region(s): North America
A homegrown product development and technology company, iRAM Technologies has won three multi-million-dollar projects for developing ‘On and Off-Street Smart Parking Solutions’ for Bhubaneswar, Kanpur and Nasik smart cities. iRAM has won these...
Article - 12/20/2018
Active Region(s): India
India has completed around 33 per cent of the total 5,151 Smart City Mission projects or are currently under implementation, utilizing around 25 per cent of the envisaged investment. Around 2,342 projects worth Rs 909.29 billion have been tendered....
Article - 12/20/2018
Active Region(s): India
The illegal car parking situation in India requires a conscious effort towards improving the situation not only on part of the citizens but also from the enforcement bodies. This means at the very minimum, identifying and acknowledging the problem...
Article - 12/19/2018
Active Region(s): India
Every urban road in Bangalore and other cities of India is an example of the chaos of traffic, broken footpaths, hanging cables, clogged drains, overflowing sewage, and haphazard street lights, transformers, and telecom fixtures. Temporary fixes...
Article - 12/19/2018
Active Region(s): India
In this video, our Executive Director Adam Beck shares his reflections on the work of the Council during 2018, and discusses what is installed for 2019. You can view the video here.
Article - 12/14/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Construction is one of the most dynamic, responsive and unique sectors in the Indian economy. It contributes significantly to the country’s economic development by generating output, creating jobs and facilitating income generation. The Indian...
Article - 12/14/2018
Active Region(s): India
The Smart Cities Council India, part of the global consortium of smart cities, is organising 6th ‘Smart City Summit - SM@RT Urbanation’ at Hotel Shangri-La Bengaluru from February 13-14, 2019 to commemorate three years of the initiation of Smart...
Article - 12/13/2018
Active Region(s): India
The 540 MW TAPP-3, a totally indigenous nuclear power unit, is the 16th nuclear power reactor in the country. It has been designed and built by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), a public sector after undertaking under the...
Article - 12/13/2018
Active Region(s): India
When EVs were first introduced the adoption rate wasn't nearly as fast as anticipated, even in California which is now home to half of the county's registered hybrid and battery-electric vehicles. However, the EV adoption rate is accelerating...
Article - 12/13/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Electric utilities have made progress in how they forecast what their energy demand will be at any given time, in the short-term and long-term. Weather, price and economics all feed into the energy demand equation as does the integration of...
Article - 12/13/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Last week we were in Puerto Rico, a humanitarian grant winner in our 2018 Smart Cities Readiness Challenge. A year after Hurricane Maria, there’s still much to do, but there’s also optimism for the future. Puerto Rico is now determined not only to...
Article - 12/13/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Hexagon Capability Center India (HCCI), based in Hyderabad, is a subsidiary of Hexagon AB, a Sweden-based information technology (IT) company. The subsidiary's existing data center was showing its age and didn't have enough bandwidth to support...
Article - 12/13/2018
Active Region(s): India
The Pune Smart City, in a bid to stay ahead of all cities has already chalked out plans for the New Year. The city, which has completed projects worth Rs 48 billion, will issue 40 tenders by January 30, 2019.Speaking with Smart Cities Council India...
Article - 12/12/2018
Active Region(s): India
As cities develop and populations continue to grow, there is one common challenge most places face: transportation. In southwest Germany near the French border, Karlsruhe, the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, has had a three-...
Article - 12/10/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water, Wellness, Shelter
The city of Yokohama believes that its mission and role in history is to deliver its long standing expertise in sustainable development to Japan including the disaster stricken areas and the world. To realize a city where "people want to live" and "...
Article - 12/07/2018
Active Region(s): India
National Informatics Centre (NIC) is the premier ICT organization of the Indian Government. It works closely with central & state government departments, agencies, and district administration to deliver e-governance services. The organization...
Article - 12/06/2018
Active Region(s): India
The Government of Maharashtra has launched an ambitious project—State of Maharashtra Agribusiness and Rural Transformation (SMART)—in 10,000 villages within the next three years with an aim to achieve sustainable farming.The project will cover...
Article - 12/06/2018
Active Region(s): India
Calgary, Alberta already has a track record for innovation, thanks to its commitment to a long-term vision for a communication infrastructure that connects as many assets as possible to improve city services. And that commitment is yielding...
Article - 12/06/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Better traffic management, reduced congestion and improved traffic safety are key targets for cities, particularly those with growing populations. Connected vehicle technologies are expected to help deliver all three. A recent live demonstration of...
Article - 12/06/2018
Active Region(s): North America
While the we have certainly made progress to improve air quality, worldwide, it remains a problem. Globally, 4 million people die each year because of poor air quality. Some 90% of the world’s population lives in areas where the air pollution...
Article - 12/06/2018
Active Region(s): North America
At a gathering of local government innovation leaders in Victoria today Australia’s peak smart cities body released a guideline to help drive greater citizen-led innovation.Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand (SCCANZ) Executive Director Adam...
Article - 12/06/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
I am recently back from the Smart Cities Expo World Congress - the industry’s annual gathering of everything and anyone smart cities, hosted in the city of Barcelona.It was my third my trip to the global gathering, and again it didn’t disappoint....
Article - 12/04/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
As more cities and towns identify opportunities for using technology solutions and data analytics to advance their organisational and community goals, a level of concern remains among citizens and businesses that security and privacy is 'at risk'....
Article - 12/04/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
The Chennai Police, which has installed around 1.5 lakh CCTV cameras around the city, has decided to use it efficiently with its recently-launched ‘CCTV Chennai City’ app. The app is linked to Google Maps, on which all the locations in the city...
Article - 12/04/2018
Active Region(s): India
Finding a parking spot in a busy city has always been difficult for vehicle owners. To avoid traffic snarls at prime junctions and streamline parking spots, the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) will introduce smart parking...
Article - 12/04/2018
Active Region(s): India
Delhi, in a quest to become one of the smart cities in India, is making life easier for its daily commuters. In days to come, bus commuters in Delhi can track the exact location and expected time of arrival of bus they want to travel. With Delhi...
Article - 11/30/2018
Active Region(s): India
eBike is one-of-its-kind revolutionary start-up aiming at providing environment friendly means of transportation. eBike is India’s first-ever platform offering electronic mode of transportation, which runs for around 200 km after an electronic...
Article - 11/29/2018
Active Region(s): India
It’s a wake-up call for all municipal corporations. With plastic, considered to be a menace in across the nation, it is time to put [plastic] for good use. An estimated 15,000 tonnes of plastic waste is generated in India every day. If all the roads...
Article - 11/29/2018
Active Region(s): India
One of the best ways to see what’s happening in cities is to look at the projects they are planning and implementing. Our monthly Inside Look series does just that. It’s compiled by GovWin+Onvia from Deltek. — Kevin EbiBy Nick Schiffler, GovWin+...
Article - 11/29/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Two years ago, the city of Boston announced a partnership with Council Lead Partner Verizon to undertake a city-wide transformation of its technology infrastructure. That meant replacing its existing communications system with a state-of-the...
Article - 11/29/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Congested city streets may be one less problem Paris faces as the city looks to something straight out of a science fiction movie: driverless taxi cabs. Dubbed “Autonom Cab,” these hyperconnected taxis cost between €230,000 and €250,000 and can hold...
Article - 11/29/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Austria’s fourth-largest city, Salzburg, may be known for its charming medieval and baroque buildings (as well as being the birthplace of famous composer Mozart), but the city is making a name for itself in the region as a leader in Smart Grids and...
Article - 11/28/2018
Active Region(s): Europe