Where do leaders begin? With themselves. That’s exactly the strategy Cary, North Carolina employs as they embark on the journey to become a smart community. Though not quite large enough to be a city – Read More
The Internet of Things (IoT) holds tremendous promise for creating greater levels of efficiency, productivity and safety. Illustrating this concept through the context of a smart home is relatively simple. “Things” like refrigerators and thermostats Read More
IBM and Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO) have joined to create Utopus Insights, a company which will specialize in smart energy products to based in Valhalla, New York and Bengaluru, India. IBM Fellow, Dr. Chandu Read More
IoT technology has the potential to greatly increase field service efficiency, increasing consumer satisfaction and reducing costs. Resolving jobs efficiently and quickly – can be difficult to achieve if personnel are unable to obtain necessary Read More
The city of Saratoga, New York, IgniteU New York, and Empire State College are partnering to host Saratoga Go!, a competition that challenges individuals and small businesses to create mobile apps that will improve the Read More
Five University of Las Vegas – Nevada students and alumni won the Smart Cities Hackathon competition at the Consumer Electronics Show last month with their plan to provide the city with a more efficient way Read More
It has just been reported that AT&T has won the $7 billion contract to build the FirstNet nationwide LTE network for first responders in the U.S. FirstNet was created to be a force-multiplier (an attribute Read More
Researchers at Michigan Technical University (MTU) are calling for standard metrics to measure the health of smart grid power networks in order to improve cyber security. Smart meters, management systems for distributed energy resources like Read More
Urban Roots, a London, Ontario startup, is dedicated to growing food in downtown areas without access to fresh food. Heather Barnes and Graham Bracken, two of the founders, were inspired by the Michigan Urban Farming Read More
The city of Bradford, England is launching two new networks this week that will be jointly run by Bradford Council, Digital Catapult Yorkshire, the University of Bradford and ODI Leeds. They will include a LoRaWAN Read More
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