The city of San Antonio, Texas held a Smart Cities Readiness Workshop in March of this year with the goal of creating a road map for future development. Chief Innovation Officer, Jose de la Cruz, Read More
A number of cities have begun to radically re-think their approaches to transportation. Alex Pazuchanics, Pittsburgh’s transportation policy coordinator, recently announced “…we have created a new department — the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure. [The Read More
URBAN-X – a venture accelerator founded by MINI in partnership with SOSV – has announced the startup companies who will be part of the second round of participants chosen to work with MINI’s engineers to Read More
The Center for Business & Information Technologies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette seeks innovative thinkers and programmers of all types for the CajunCodeFest Smart Community Challenge March 29 – April 1. The goal Read More
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, noting the rise of popularity of urban farming, has created a free Urban Farming toolkit. Urban farming can help alleviate urban food deserts, make food as local and fresh as Read More
The startup incubator 1776 will add 19 startups from a diverse set of industries this March. The fellowship program – beginning March 22 and finishing in August – guides the companies as they navigate their Read More
ANAGOG creates crowd sourced information about the mobility status of users. By using smartphone sensors, ANAGOG detects the mobility status of drivers, including where they parked and predicting five minutes before they will vacate their 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
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
The city of Cardiff, Wales will soon see Europe’s first city-wide deployment of bay sensor technology. The new system will transform the parking experience with the installation of over 3000 infrared vehicle detection sensors, the Read More
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