Smart Cities
Launch Of Cityverve’s IoT Initiative puts Manchester on the Smart Cities Map
November 7th, 2016All-over-IP Expo 2016 Comes to Moscow on November 23-24
November 4th, 2016
Internet of Things Devices at the Center of Biggest Cyber Attack In History
“In a relatively short time we’ve taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters,” tweeted Jeff Jarmoc, head of security for global business service Salesforce. Jamroc’s comments came after one of the largest cyber attacks in history brought down several of the internet’s biggest sites just over […]
Welcome To Smart Japan
Europe, the US and China dominate smart city developments, Singapore and South Korea are grabbing some headlines, while India floods news feeds with its own smart city ambitions. Quietly a giant sleeps, a tech giant with the capacity for great smartness is slowly but surely developing its cities in a bid to leap frog all […]
The Future Looks Bright For Energy Storage
“Energy storage is the only technology that can use energy generated during low cost off-peak periods to serve load during expensive peak periods, thereby improving the overall utilization and economics of the electric grid,” states a recent Massachusetts Energy Storage Initiative report that encourages the wide-scale deployment of energy to meet grid demands. Recognizing that […]
The Harmonization Of Smart Grid & Smart Building Markets Has Begun
Smart buildings and smart grids only go so far in optimizing energy consumption in cities, the two need to be synchronized to complete the energy saving story. As much as 40% of total energy consumption in the US comes from buildings. While great strides have been made to develop smart building energy saving technology alongside […]
Wide Ranging Applications Bring About Global Growth in the Building Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a global phenomenon. Aspiring cities on every continent are striving to become “smart”, full of intelligent buildings, connected by an advanced grid all, under the umbrella of the IoT movement. This emerging urban intelligence is optimising energy use, increasing safety and security, it’s even making us more healthy and […]
Development of the IoT and MicroGrids Fuel each others Expansion
Microgrids have grown to over 1.2 gigawatts (GW) in capacity, with future projections reaching 20GW by 2020 and 100GW by 2030, that is according to Andres Carvallo, CEO of CMG, a consultancy that advises on smart grids and other infrastructure. Carvallo told attendees at the Smart Cities Week 2016 conference in Washington, D.C. last week […]
A Truly Smart City Is One That Is Shaped By Its Citizens
“The most important components for smart cities are engaging communities and forging partnerships,” this was the statement of US Federal officials, during Smart Cities Week, last week, who underlined a theory that has become increasingly popular in the smart city debate – a truly smart city is one that is shaped by its citizens rather […]
Smart Buildings are a Key Element of the Digitization Transforming our Economies
Digitization is driving the transformation of our modern economies. That is the view of many experts who see the potential gains from the masses of data now streaming in from all manner of connected objects. Needless to say, digitization from computers, the Internet and smartphones have and will continue to make a huge impact on […]
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