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Are you a leader in the smart-city space? Then mark your calendars for Thursday, Sept. 29, when Greenbang hosts a 50 Smart City Influencers drinks event in London. The event is scheduled for 6:30 pm at Soho’s LVPO. Attendance is free, but you’ll need to reserve a
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A new planned development being built in South Korea is being designed as a model to help the country turn its cities into environmentally sustainable communities that can also generate rapid economic growth and opportunities for citizens. The first phase of the 1,500-acre Songdo International Business District (IBD,) which
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What does a really smart and connected city look like? If no one quite knows yet, officials in the Florida city of Jacksonville want to find out. The city has launched into a pilot program with Cisco to try and connect its many different technology systems into a more unified
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Particularly at less busy traffic periods, pedestrians often step onto a road crossing when the traffic light has already switched to red. This does not always have a happy ending. To reduce the resulting number of accidents, DSTA, the Spanish producer of light systems, has developed a solution with its
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Alvarion Ltd. is deploying a 4G municipal network in Houston as part of the municipality’s Smart City project. Alvarion’s 4G wireless broadband network will enable the local government to offer advanced municipal services, such as enhanced public safety and traffic optimisation solutions, and consistent access to information. The
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More than half of the world’s nearly seven billion people now live in urban areas, and that proportion is expected to reach almost 69 per cent by 2050. To avoid pushing local and global systems to the point of collapse, cities will need to become much smarter and more
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It’s not enough that IBM has a computer system so smart it can beat human champions on the Jeopardy! game show … Big Blue looks like it wants to rule the internet of things, from electronic health records and smart meters all the way to escalators and ATMs. And it
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The challenge of creating a truly sustainable city is, to quote Winston Churchill, “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” So far, some cities have done considerably better than others at becoming smarter and greener … but there’s not a single one yet that meets all the requirements
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South Korea’s Busan Metropolitan City today launched an innovative center to host a variety of services for its citizens. Operating like an app store for developers, the Busan Mobile Application Development Center (BMAC), marks the first phase of the city’s deployment of Smart+Connected Community (S+CC) services,
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Hi Greenbangers, Happy Valentines Day! As usual, it’s all go at Greenbang and there are few things I wanted share with you. First of all, thank you to those who came to last Thursday’s webinar on what to do with smart grid data — we had a great turnout
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The concept of a smart grid powers up imaginations around the world — and not just inside the energy industry. The cultural phenomenon of smart grid touches everyone from politicians to primary school children. There are articles and documentaries on the subject. There are entire magazines and conferences on the topic.
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IBM will help the Czech Republic city of Pilsen “go smart,” under a four-year agreement to develop a strategic information system for the municipality. Together, IBM and Pilsen plan to build the foundations of a “smart city” that will use state-of-the-art information technologies to improve the efficiency of internal processes