Cambridgeshire – a county in the East of England – has a pilot project using Internet of Things (IoT) technology to better manage flood risks. The sensors are being installed by Cambridgeshire company, cThings. Initially, sensors Read More
Portland, OR’s City Council has unanimously passed an initial policy regarding surveillance technologies which aims to strike a balance between their benefits and risks. The city previously implemented privacy principles and a ban on the Read More
After conducting a successful waste to compost recycling program in Queens – the city’s second most populous borough – the city of New York has plans to expand the curbside composting program to all five Read More
The city of Liverpool, England will be working with ubitricity – a Shell subsidiary – to install a network of 300 on-street electric vehicle (EV) charging points into existing lampposts. This will triple the size Read More
During the last two days of February 2023, Tokyo hosted its first global smart cities event, City-Tech Tokyo, bringing the ideal smart city model to life. Thousands of global participants from government, academia and industry Read More
Researchers at MIT have created an open-source version of a low-cost, mobile pollution detector that could enable people to easily track air quality. The detector – called Flatburn – is part of a larger project, Read More
Micro-Mobility for Europe (MMfE) – an association of shared micro mobility providers, such as e-bikes and e-scooters, in the EU – has published a factsheet of incident data involving shared e-scooters in Europe. The association hopes Read More
The city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands has announced a new contest for ideas to improve cycling safety throughout the city. There are an estimated 800,000 cyclists in the city, with 63% of residents using Read More
The EU’s NetZeroCities Pilot Cities initiative recently announced the 53 cities that will participate in experimenting with new ways to rapidly decarbonize over the course of a two-year program. The Pilot Cities program is managed Read More
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