smart cities

smart cities

New assessment tool helps cities 'get smarter'

IBM has launched a new Smarter City Assessment Tool to help cities better understand and meet the demands of an increasingly urbanised world. The new offering was announced today at the SmarterCities forum in Berlin. Last year — for the first time in history, according to the Department of Economic and

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IBM to help Parma become a 'smart city'

The Italian city of Parma will work with IBM to create a new model for a sustainable “smart city.” The initiative seeks to generate citizen-focused innovations that will provide new “intelligence” for the city’s existing infrastructure, which will help it to optimise its use of resources, reduce traffic congestion,