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The “internet of things,” as the smart grid is often called, entails making our lives, homes and cities more efficient by connecting all the pieces with networking technology and applying advanced strategies like “big data” analytics to better understand how all the pieces interact. The analogy to the computing internet,
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Cities are increasingly awash in “big data,” and the intelligence hidden in that information represents a vast, untapped resource that could help make life in communities better, cleaner and more efficient. Improved energy efficiency is just one benefit that cities could reap from making better use of the smart technologies
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Achieving energy self-sufficiency is an ambitious enough goal for an island community that’s not sitting atop a giant oil or gas field or straddling the sunny equator. But leaders of the Isle of Wight’s EcoIsland initiative are aiming for even more: they hope to eventually make the region
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The city of Sunderland in the northeast of England is looking to the cloud to build a smarter community for residents and a more investment-appealing location for businesses. Just last week, officials announced that the city would become the first in Britain to offer wall-to-wall, superfast broadband coverage. And today,
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A new “smart” community planned for the Canadian city of St. Albert will feature an ultra-high-speed data network and other technologies designed not only to attract business but to make it easy for residents to telecommute to far-flung regions with ease. The 400-acre Avenir project, being developed by Rampart with
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A Crystal is sprouting up in East London that Siemens hopes will become the city’s newest landmark … as well as an international center for sustainable urban technology. Officially named during a “topping-out” ceremony today, the £30-million Crystal is being built as part of Siemens’ sustainable cities initiative. When it
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Incheon city leaders hope to redevelop two areas of the Nam-Gu ward as a “smart city.” Officials in South Korea’s third-largest city plan to use Cisco’s Smart+Connected Communities program to create blueprints for more technologically advanced and networked neighborhoods in the Ju An 2 and 4 Dong
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Faced with growing pains that might be hard for residents or smaller or quieter cities to imagine, Nairobi could find its way to a more livable future with the help of smart technologies. Leaders from across the region came together together today to discuss those possibilities during the Nairobi Smarter
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Deutsche Telekom and smart-city technology company Living PlanIT are teaming up to develop ways to allow a wide variety of devices to communicate with one another to build “an intelligent, interconnected urban infrastructure.” A smooth transfer of data between devices will be critical to enable an era of smart cities
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Greenbang will be getting together with some of the top leaders in the smart-city space next month when it hosts its 50 Smart City Influencers drinks event in London. Sponsorship opportunities for the gathering — which will include leaders from Siemens, Cisco, S&C Electric Europe and LED Lease Solutions,
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Cisco has begun working with the Canadian Province of Ontario to help create a smarter, more connected and sustainable economy for the region. Ontario and Cisco Canada aim to develop a framework that will drive innovation and sustainable economic development in areas like health and wellness, energy, smart cities, education
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Working with IBM, the city of Portland in Oregon has developed a 25-year plan for becoming a “smarter” city. The plan is based on a computer simulation designed to help city leaders see how municipal systems — the economy, housing, education, public safety, transportation, healthcare/wellness, government services, utilities, etc. — work