A consortium of organizations – including electricity distributor UK Power Networks, utility SSE, China’s BYD, Octopus Energy and the University of Leeds – has won £11m ($15.6M USD) in government funding for four electric vehicle-to-grid Read More
Smart Budapest, co-authored by Sándor Finta, Director of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Zsombor Barta, Head of Sustainability and Legacy, has been adopted by the Hungarian city as a road map to becoming a world Read More
The Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton in the UK has partnered with Fawley Waterside Limited, Cisco, IBM, Siemens, and Vodafone to build a new intelligent city on the outskirts of Southampton. “We Read More
Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Volvo Buses have partnered to deliver two autonomous driving electric buses by the beginning of 2019. The Swiss company ABB will provide heavy vehicle chargers (HVC) 300P for the Read More
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government recently released The Smart City Blueprint for Hong Kong which maps out development plans for the next five years. The main policy objectives to pursue smart city Read More
Singapore Management University (SMU) recently launched a new four-year academic major – Smart-City Management and Technology. The new major is offered by the School of Information Systems along with the School of Social Science. Many Read More
In June 2016, the city of Columbus, Ohio received a $40 million grant from the US Department of Transportation and $10 million from Vulcan Inc. as part of the federal Smart City Challenge. Since then, Read More
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is currently testing a number of initiatives using smart technologies, such as biometrics, facial recognition, scanners for bottled liquids, and computed tomography. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is working on Read More
As one of 17,000 attendees at the 6th annual Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, it was easy to get lost in the crowd. And while large corporate companies certainly had formidable and Read More
The city of Cary, North Carolina has been taking steps over the past year to launch several connected technology initiatives to increase the efficiency of municipal services and improve the quality of residents’ lives. The Read More
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