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As far as power generation and green energy are concerned, the world’s emerging markets are where the action is. Energy, engineering and infrastructure giant Siemens, for example, foresees rapidly growing demand for its services not only in the Middle East and BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries but
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Cities — and the people who live in them — could be a lot healthier, safer, cleaner and smarter in the next decade, thanks to a variety of emerging technologies. But that prediction begs a question: will those innovations be affordable to most of the world’s mega-cities, or only to the
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While we’ve grown accustomed to all the emphasis on smart technology these days — smart grids, smart meters, smart houses and so on — smart clothing is one topic we hadn’t really given much thought to. Not so for a team of EU-funded researchers, who have embedded sensing devices into
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IBM and Cisco are teaming up to help the city of Amsterdam and the Dutch utility Nuon make smarter use of energy. The pilot program is part of the Amsterdam Smart City initiative, in which citizens, governments and companies are working together to make more efficient use of energy, water
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Amsterdam aims to become the European Union’s first “intelligent city” with a coordinated programme aimed at reducing its energy consumption and carbon footprint. City officials have enlisted the help of global management consultant Accenture to help them implement their “Amsterdam Smart City” programme. The programme seeks to use a
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The city of Salerno has become the third town in Italy to join forces with IBM with the aim of creating a Smart City. Under its new agreement with IBM, Salerno will create an Innovation Board to identify and design a new model for a sustainable city through a range
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Do you own or operate a small- or medium-size business in the UK? If so, the cleantech research and analyst company CleanAnalysis wants to know what you think about smart meters and smart technology for energy savings and efficiency. The brief survey is available online at CleanAnalysis.com. The study
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The Sentience project has announced an intelligent air-conditioning control system that can consistently improve a vehicle’s fuel efficiency by 9 per cent or more. A research collaboration led by Ricardo Company, Sentience also involves Jaguar-Land Rover, TRL, Ordnance Survey and Orange Business Services, with part-funding provided by innovITS, the
