Libelium announced the completion of its Smart Cities Platform with sensors allowing to monitor city pollution, noise, buildings structural condition, and waste management. These sensors may be combined Continue reading
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Under this title TED presented Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford University (2005). “Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself.” Continue reading
PostScapes – Tracking the Internet of Things, an initiative focusing on the convergence of the physical world with the digital, has compiled Continue reading
The 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2011, Paphos, Cyprus, August 31 – September 2) which just has been concluded offered a full program over three days and included a keynote speech on Intelligent cities: “A Smart World: A Development Model for Intelligent Cities” by Dr Azamat Abdoullaev, EIS Encyclopedic Intelligent Systems. Continue reading
Liveability assesses which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions. Assessing liveability has a broad range of uses. Liveability is increasingly used by city councils, organisations or corporate entities looking to test their locations against others to see general areas where liveability can differ. Continue reading
In building a city of the future, IT will have an underlying role to play in the context of sustainable urbanization as well as the larger context of economic growth and environment sustainability. The adoption of hardware, software and services in this new light gives way to the creation of a new IT ecosystem which IDC refers to as “Intelligent X‘. Continue reading
Just published (August 18, 2011) by Accenture, this report of the GSM Association (GSMA), which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, looks at the challenges of global urbanization. “The flood of people to the cities is placing huge stress on cities’ energy, road and water infrastructures, and even their ability to provide clean air. Smart cities that optimize these scarce resources Continue reading