Digital identity will play the lead role in the Smart Cities of tomorrow

The Internet of Things (IoT) is making huge waves in the world as we know it. Near enough every device we own – from our phones to our cars; our thermostats to our tablets, now boasts some form of online connectivity.

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Smart Cities need Intelligent Platforms to thrive, says new report from Beecham Research

Smart city projects focused on solving specific problems such as traffic, parking and pollution will be replaced by a more holistic approach that looks at the city as a system-of-systems, based around the Internet of Things (IoT), says a new report from Beecham Research.

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Reclaiming the Smart City agenda to create fairer human outcomes

A personal perspective from Dr Rick Robinson, currently IT Director for Smart Data and Technology for Amey, one of the UK’s largest engineering and infrastructure services companies. Previously, Dr Robinson was IBM UK’s executive architect for Smarter Cities.

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Smart parking – key projects for smart cities, a report by Beecham Research

Introduction The initial momentum on smart cities was focused around solving the specific problems of cities, problems that have been critical for a long time. We could call that an application-centric approach to smart cities. This was the case for urban mobility, particularly car mobility. Smart parking solutions were soon identified as important projects for

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Smart Cities, Smart Silos: Examining the building blocks of the smart city

Towards the end of the last decade, our planet achieved three remarkable feats. First, human population crossed the seven billion mark. Second, over 50% of the world’s population is living in urban areas. And third, there are now more connected devices than humans. To achieve and sustain this level of growth, to take advantage of

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Research points to widespread ignorance of the UK’s smart city initiatives

According to a recent survey conducted by communications infrastructure and media services company Arqiva and YouGov, 96% of people in the UK are not aware of any “smart city” initiatives being run by their local city council in the last year.

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US FTC creates new ‘IoT office’ and starts hiring to protect consumers’ connected devices and security

The US Government’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that its Bureau of Consumer Protection is to replace the existing Mobile Technology Unit with a new Office of Technology Research and Investigation (OTRI).

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Barcelona Named ‘Global Smart City – 2015’

Hampshire, 17th February 2015: Juniper Research has today revealed the top ranking smart cities globally for 2015:

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UK’s 300-strong HyperCat consortium bids for ‘unlikely’ lead in global race to build smart cities

House of Lords, London, UK — The UK has launched a smart city initiative designed to give Britain a lead in the global smart cities race. The #HyperCatCity programme’s collaborative approach and open standards aim to make it faster and easier for developers to deliver smart city solutions that improve the lives of citizens. 

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Stream Technologies appoints Low Power Radio Networks specialist for ‘crucial’ IoT deployments

London & Glasgow, UK. January 26, 2015 — Tracy Hopkins formally joins Stream Technologies today as SVP, Low Power Radio Networks (IoT). Previously with Neul, Tracy’s appointment underlines Stream’s commitment to enabling leading edge wireless technologies for M2M and IoT.

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Smart City traffic systems to reduce congestion for over 700M drivers by 2019, according to Juniper Research

A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that smart city traffic management and parking projects will reduce cumulative global emissions in the order of 164 MMT (million metric tonnes) CO2 between 2014 and 2019 – equivalent to the annual emissions produced by 35 million vehicles. Not only will this benefit the environment, but it will

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Build trust in the Internet of Things, but be wary of causing data breaches

Growth in Internet of Things technology across all areas of society and industry will see a huge increase in the diversity of software developed to support it. At the same time, the domination of traditional developers such as Microsoft and Adobe is being challenged by thousands of ‘one-man-bands’ able to get in on the act

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Internet of Things industry is right to put security centre stage, says ARM

A year or two ago security in the Internet of Things was at the top of few people’s minds. Perhaps it should have been. Now IoT security is a hot topic as editor-in-chief, Jeremy Cowan found when he talked to Zach Shelby, director of the IoT Business Unit at ARM, a multinational semiconductor and software

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gridComm launches intelligent, cloud-based street lighting solution

Cities around the globe spend as much as 40 percent of their energy budgets on street lighting. Lighting accounts for almost 6 percent of global CO2 greenhouse gas emissions. What if there was a way to both cut costs and drive down emissions? Enter gridComm, a provider of power line communications (PLC) solutions that enable the transformation of

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‘We’re 9 meals from anarchy’: Take the cybersecurity threat to IoT seriously, says Beecham report

London, UK. September 10, 2014 – IoT security “must evolve significantly for the long term” if we are to avert critical impacts from terrorism and cyber warfare. This demands an in-depth defence plan applying lessons learned from ‘traditional’ hacking attacks. So says an interim report from Beecham Research, whose authors warned M2M Now that “we’re

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Landis+Gyr wins smart meter contract in Poland with RWE

Zug, Switzerland, July 22, 2014 – Swiss smart grid company Landis+Gyr has won a contract to provide smart meters in Poland for energy utility RWE for use inside residential buildings in the capital city of Warsaw.  RWE, based in Essen, Germany, is working to meet regulatory targets for smart meter installation and says the Landis+Gyr system

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