Smart Cities
Without Privacy Controls, we will not see the Full Potential of the Internet of Things
June 12th, 2015Kaspersky Lab Highlights Potential Video Surveillance Vulnerabilities in Wireless
June 5th, 2015Canary Wharf’s Smart City Cognicity Challenge Announces Winners
The second phase of Canary Wharf’s Cognicity Challenge in London has produced two new winners of the £50,000 prize. Innovate smart city technology firms Demand Logic and SEaB Energy will implement their technology in the docklands business district. The Cognicity Challenge is the starting point for the Cognicity initiative, which aims to encourage participating companies […]
Smart City Interview with Stephen Hilton, Futures Director at Bristol City Council
The city of Bristol, in the UK, has launched a £75m initiative to create a futuristic smart city urban experiment. Major elements of the project are already underway, turning the city into a high-tech test-bed for innovation and positioning Bristol among the most exciting smart city projects in the world. Memoori speaks with Stephen Hilton, […]
Paris Selects Silver Spring Networks for Smart Lighting Initiative
Paris “the city of lights” has taken a smart step forward as EVESA, the city’s streetlight and traffic control systems operator, finalised a contract with California based Silver Spring Networks to revolutionise lighting across the French capital. After a successful pilot project, Silver Spring Networks announced an expansion of its relationship with EVESA earlier this […]
Bristol’s Smart City Project – Where Data is the Next Utility
The city of Bristol, in the UK, has launched a £75m initiative to create a futuristic Smart City urban experiment. Major elements of the project are already underway, turning the city into a high-tech test-bed for innovation. Including a 30 Gigabit per second fibre broadband network powering the research project. Bristol City Council is working […]
IBM and Semtech launch LoRaWAN for The Internet of Things
“I firmly believe that there is not a single industry that won’t benefit from IoT” said Vernon Turner, senior vice president of research and IoT executive lead at International Data Corp. Today, it is hard to find any technology news these days without a link to the Internet of Things (IoT). This all-encompassing technological concept […]
Canary Wharf Advances Smart Cities Accelerator Initiative
London’s iconic Canary Wharf, and Docklands business district, is taking a progressive step towards “smart city” status as two streams of its pioneering Cognicity Challenge enter the short-listing phase. The Cognicity Challenge is the starting point for the Cognicity initiative, which aims to encourage participating companies to respond to the current and future elements of […]
The Smart Cities that Oil Built
When they tell the story of our transition to a smart, green urban future, how will they portray fossil fuels? The evil addiction that we couldn’t shake, or the fuel that funded our advancement into a greener more efficient energy future. A quick look around the oil rich Arabian Gulf might have you thinking the […]
Why Even Google’s Best Climate Change Efforts were Not Enough
In 2011, Google discontinued its RE<C program which pledged to tackle the issue of climate change facing our planet. The RE<C initiative aimed to promote promising technologies and specifically to find sustainable form of generating electricity, cheaper than coal. While stopping the program has been a knock to climate change efforts, the subsequent report from […]
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