Smart Cities
“Unleashing Synergies Between Human And Machine Intelligence” Memoori Speaks To MIT’s Carlo Ratti
August 16th, 2016“The Road Toward Smart Cities” Report Tackles Rapid Urban Growth
August 12th, 2016
Smart Buildings & Cities Create Perfect Proving Grounds For Deep Learning
The Internet of Things (IoT) has brought about the opportunity to establish a new architecture for Smart Buildings that decentralizes systems and pushes analytics processing to the “edge”, or sensor unit, rather than the cloud or a central server. This ‘Edge’ or ‘fog’ computing provides real-time intelligence and enhances system agility while simultaneously offloading the […]
Powering Future Cities Report Promotes Smart Infrastructure To Tackle Growing Energy Demand
“How much energy will we need to power our cities in the future? Where will that energy come from? How will it be distributed, stored and accessed?” These are the questions asked by a new report published by Smart Energy GB, which reveals the changing future energy demands of eleven major British cities. The Powering […]
Give Smart Cities Access To The Innovative Power Of Their People
The city of Bristol, in the west of England, is continuing to develop its status as a test bed for smart technology. The forward-thinking city is not simply placing smart cities infrastructure on top of the existing city and encouraging citizens to adapt; it is adapting the city to its citizens by allowing them to […]
We Should Democratise Smart City Planning
A smart city project in the UK has crowdsourced ideas in order to better plan the urban redevelopment. As part of a new smart city report, thoughts on the project were welcomed from hundreds of experts across six different domains through a series of 37 workshops at the Hypercatevent in London this year. Hypercat enlisted some of […]
Agility Beats Power In The Fight For Smart City Supremacy
Despite Brexit, the refuge crisis, increased terrorism, and economic strife in Greece, Europe is still better positioned to win supremacy in smart city innovation according to several experts in the field. Like two heavyweights before a title fight, the US talks a big talk and has more muscle to back it up but Europe has […]
Is Brexit All Bad News For UK Tech Sector?
Britain has not left Europe, despite some of the headlines that seem to suggest some sort of tectonic shift. Britain has voted to leave the European Union (EU) but will continue to be a major European economy, like other non-EU European nations such as Norway or Switzerland, whose voters rejected becoming part of the union. […]
Smart City 2.0: Digital Industrial Companies And Urban Entrepreneurs
While still a relatively new sounding term, the ‘smart city’ has been a topic of discussion for over ten years now. This technology enabled urban development has been increasingly influential in our cities during the past decade but has recently taken a big step forward to what we might now call ‘smart city 2.0’. The […]
UN Initiative Seeks To Bring Together Smart Sustainable Cities
“The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states and the 21st century will be a century of cities” – Wellington Webb, Former Mayor of Denver, CO. The 21st century model of urban development will leverage information and communication technologies (ICTs) to set cities on a development […]
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