Making city transport smarter with the smartphone

Smart Cities are all about the implementation and adoption of integrated technology to improve urban life, and there is no better example than the impact the smartphone is having on urban transport systems.

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The Internet of Things is more than just a buzzword

According to Gartner, IoT revenue from products and services will exceed $300 billion in 2020. IDC forecasts that the worldwide market for IoT solutions will grow to $7.1 trillion by 2020. Every major player from the software industry is investing in IoT. Platform companies such as Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft are building platforms to

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Smart cities require a holistic approach to infrastructure – Part 2

A major problem facing cities, which is bound to worsen in the future, lies with obstacles to mobility as more people have to commute to and from work over long distances.

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Smart cities require a holistic approach to infrastructure – Part 1

The need to make cities sustainable will drive the adoption of a range of smart solutions.

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IoT to make buildings and cities ‘smarter’ – Part 2

Sensors everywhere There is a growing market for advanced occupancy sensors, carbon dioxide sensors, thermostats and photo sensors which can gather data about movement, heat, light and use of space to adapt to changing building conditions and make real-time alterations to a building’s environment.

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Telensa part of CityVerve Consortium awarded £10m to make Manchester the UK’s IoT demonstrator

Telensa has announced that it is part of the CityVerve Consortium in Manchester selected for a UK£10 million (€13.8 million) government award.

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A tale of two (smart) cities

A pre-requisite for any successful 21st century smart city is ubiquitous wireless communications. The vision of an ‘always-on, always-connected’ environment embraces communications on the move, for people and machines alike. That in turn demands many more wireless access points, not just at home or at work, but in the streets.

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Increased connectivity is helping smart cities shift to flexible, on-demand mobility, Navigant report finds

A recent report from Navigant Research analyses the global market for smart urban mobility infrastructure and services in smart cities, including carsharing, ridesharing, advanced traffic management, smart parking, and other transportation innovations, with regional forecasts for revenue, through 2024.

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Orange selects Semtech’s LoRa RF for low-power wide area networks in France’s smart cities

Semtech Corporation, a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, has announced Orange, one of the largest mobile network operators (MNO) in the world, selected its LoRa® RF technology for a low-power, wide-area network (LPWAN) scheduled to deploy in the first quarter of 2016. Orange will use the LoRa LPWAN to connect low-power sensors to

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Smart cities, eHealth and automotive are the focus for Comarch’s IoT platform and tools

One of the well-rehearsed challenges about smart cities is that this is not a single application. Where most IoT deployments draw on the skills of one industry, smart cities must connect and integrate diverse business groups. For that you need particular platform and integration skills.

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Smart Cities India 2016 Exhibition and Conference

Event date: May 11-13, 2016 New Delhi, India Smart Cities India 2016 exhibition and conference will be held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, during 11-13 May 2016. The expo will connect exhibitors and speakers with government administrators, municipal bodies, industry leaders, investors, etc., who have interest in developing smart cities.

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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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Building the YouTopia – after all, it’s where most of us will end up living

Funny things, cities. After wandering out of Africa around one hundred thousand years ago, our ancestors seem to have been perfectly happy existing in hunter-gatherer communities until something like 7000 years ago, writes M2M Now’s Alun Lewis.

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Oberthur Technologies and Etisalat Group sign a new strategic partnership on M2M and IOT services

Oberthur Technologies (OT), a provider in digital security solutions for the mobility space, and Etisalat Group, the UAE-based leading global Telecommunications service provider, add a new dimension to their collaboration with their strategic partnership to offer the region’s first tailored M2M and IoT services across Middle East, Asia and Africa.

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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 Week

Event date: September 15-17, 2015 Washington Between swelling populations, growing pressure on natural resources and the strain on aging infrastructure, cities face no shortage of challenges today. But in these challenges lie incredible opportunities — opportunities to go beyond the problems to make communities more livable, workable and sustainable.

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