The University of Toronto’s engineering department, École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) of Montréal and a number of municipal governments have partnered with the aim to leverage the big data collected by municipalities to make cities 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
The University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design has created two new post-baccalaureate certificate programs – ‘Designing Smart and Secure Communities’ and ‘Built and Landscape Heritage; – designed to allow practicing professionals to learn how Read More
Smart 50 Awards review committee, Smart Cities Connect, US Ignite, and Smart Cities Connect Foundation proudly announce the 2018 Smart 50 Award Finalists. These municipal-scale projects exemplify innovation and concrete influence in their community or Read More
The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), along with other Singapore universities and research institutions will form the ‘Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision’ (DiSTAP) interdisciplinary research group in January of 2018. DiSTAP Read More
Scanalytics Inc. recently received a $851,957 award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) which will be used to develop floor sensing technology that reduces energy use in commercial buildings. The 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
Urban Seed – an urban farming company creating a new food supply chain for the Las Vegas Valley – is growing plants using a hybrid aeroponics system, the process of growing plants vertically in a Read More
The Australian Government has released details of all 52 projects funded $28.5 million AUS under the first round of its Smart Cities and Smart Suburbs program. 176 applications were received, and a second funding round Read More
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