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
The city of Louisville, Kentucky recently debuted a new service on the IFTTT platform – a web-based service where users can create chains of simple conditional statements, known as applets, that are triggered based on Read More
Kansas City recently unveiled a public data portal that allows residents to view traffic data and find open parking spots along the city’s downtown streetcar line. The 2.2-mile (3.54 km) smart district runs along the Read More
The city of Canberra, Australia has recently replaced 868 parking meters with 145 solar powered pay and display parking machines. Single-space meters served the city for more than 40 years, but these older parking meters Read More
Officials in the cities of Contra Costa County, California are moving ahead with their the Smart City Program despite the voters not having approved Measure X last October. Measure X was to have provided $65 Read More
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