The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the Smart City Air Challenge earlier this year, challenging cities across the United States to collect data using air quality sensors. The cities of Baltimore and Lafayette have been Read More
The Scottish Cities Alliance, made up of the cities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Perth, and Stirling – along with the Scottish national government – have joined forces to create a smart cities program. Read More
Boston has launched its Smart Cities pilot project with the installation of road sensors, cameras, and connected lighting at the intersection of two major thoroughfares. Installed by Verizon, it is being termed a hyper-instrumented intersection. Read More
Canada is moving ahead with smart parking applications. The city of Sherbrooke recently launched a new parking application developed by B-CITI, a Canadian company who has partnered with the city of Brossard and the École Read More
There is an enormous global opportunity for startups to bring new technologies and solutions to cities and to help solve major civic challenges in areas, such as transportation, healthcare, energy, and emergency response. Unfortunately, an Read More
The Northern Ohio Building-to-Grid Integration Demonstration, a partnership between Case Western Reserve University, NASA Glenn Research Center and the University of Toledo, will begin this month in Northern Ohio. “By using a ‘living laboratory,’ we Read More
Smart Kalasatama is a former industrial area in the City of Helsinki, Finland that is gradually becoming one of the smartest cities on the planet. The current population is approximately 3,000 people, but it is Read More
Stacy Philpott, Associate Professor in Environmental Studies and holder of the Ruth and Alfred Heller Chair in Agroecology at University of California Santa Cruz, has been awarded a $439,676 grant from the US Department of Read More
“Bristol is Open”, the programmable city initiative in Bristol, England, recently won the Internet of Things award in the The Smart Cities Award category at the World Communications Awards and Internet of Things Awards. The Read More
The Programmable City project at Maynooth University in Ireland offers free online videos from their recent workshops. Topics include counter-terrorism, smart urbanism in India, sustainable cities, open data, and many others. The project examines the Read More
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