In her latest article “How Chicago Got Smart About Sensors’ Prof. Susan Crawford describes the “Array of Things’ that will be the central nervous system of cities without invading our privacy.
The first step has been the implementation of a network of beautifully-designed sensors poised to capture and make public real-time, non-personal data about the liveability of a city. A network of sensors with a personality and a public service mission’Šwhich is following citizens and the citizens follow it back so they could read its tweets. Continue reading →

URENIO Research is organising a presentation on Monday 20^th of July 2015 at 14:00 by Prof. Mark Deakin titled “Smart City Studies: Research, Innovation and the Emerging State-of-the-Art’. The presentation will take place in the 1^st basement of the Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center. M. Deakin is currenty professor in the Edinburgh Napier University.
You can find a short CV of Prof. Mark Deakin here.

The Market Place is an initiative of the European Commission, which has been designed for those who are active in the challenging area of Smart Cities and willing to know more about ongoing and foreseen activities throughout Europe. The market place and information hub, may help finding the latest news, Continue reading →

In a latest article in “The Guardian’ a handy step-by-step DIY guide how to build a city from scratch is presented. In this guide 20 steps are proposed. As it is visualised in the following graph thirteen out of them are affected by different smart cities applications and concepts. Hence if you are planning a new “smart’ city you might consider to examine the available smart city tools – applications for each step. Continue reading →