Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has begun testing autonomous pods produced in Italy by US.-based Next Future Transportation. The six-seat vehicles are powered by electricity and have a top speed of 80 kms (50 Read More
Essex County Council and Hertfordshire County Council in England are partnering with technology firm Telensa to pilot new smart city services. The pilot will begin in March of this year and will initially run for Read More
The Smart Cities Council has selected Louisville/Jefferson County, Ky.; Birmingham, Ala.; Cary, N.C.; Las Vegas and the state of Virginia to participate in the 2018 Smart Cities Readiness Challenge Grant. Each will receive a year Read More
The city of Kingston, Ontario is partnering with telecommunications provider Bell in a one-year pilot project to deploy digital kiosks and other Internet of Things (IoT) applications throughout the city. “The idea of this partnership Read More
The National Smart City Living Labs in the Netherlands will be working with the data visualization company, IMAGEM, to provide solutions that will ultimately improve quality of life in cities of Breda, Dordrecht, Helmond, Leidschendam-Voorburg, Read More
Uber has partnered with the city of Cincinnati to launch its “Cincinnati Mobility Lab,” a move aimed at expanding its shared mobility initiatives and using data to make transport in cities more efficient. “This partnership Read More
Despite the highest levels of spending in the world, Americans die younger and sicker wh en compared to both developed and developing nations. From the lens of smart cities, the question becomes “how can innovation Read More
SG Bike, a Singapore-based bike-sharing company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the telecommunications company M1 to explore the use of Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) in the bike-sharing business. They will collaborate on NB-IoT Read More
A new urban farming program in the City of Buffalo, NY aims to bring fresh produce to Buffalo’s East Side – classified as a food desert – and encourage young people to consider career paths Read More
You may have heard about the Array of Things, one of the most highly publicized and groundbreaking projects in smart cities to date. If you haven’t, you’re in for a treat. We interviewed the Smart Read More
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