SMART CITIES LIVE

We all know that a smart city is a digitalised city, set to function with the help of the internet of things which connects the whole city. There are some cities that have already got there, while others are struggling to pick up the pace. NEC Corporation has just announced its plans to help develop smart city standards for Europe. The company is one of the members of a new European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), a working group which could be furthermore call

February 2017 brought good news for the IoT industry. IBM announced the launch of their Watson IoT headquarters in Munich, Germany which is one of the world’s most advanced centres for Watson’s cognitive computing and IoT capabilities. According to the company’s press release, “the center will serve as the new global ecosystem for collaborative innovation, special industry “collaboratories” that bring together clients and partners to work together with IBM’s 1,000 Munich-base

The Internet of Things is the enabler of the 4th industrial revolution that is expected to connect more than 34 billion devices to the Internet by 2020 and is already a multi-billion $ industry. While nations everywhere, starting with local governments, are introducing cloud-based technologies to their day to day affairs, business opportunities arise every step of the way. When looking at different countries from an IoT growth potential, Romania could become an internet-drive

Tetapolis, the first scientific park in Romania, was inaugurated in November 2016 in Cluj-Napoca. If you know Romania then you will not be surprised that Tetapolis is in Cluj-Napoca rather than in the capital Bucharest. In fact, the city has become such a tech-hub that some are calling it “The Silicon Valley of Europe” – that’s quite a statement. The park is part of the town’s 2020 vision to become Eastern Europe’s technological hub as Mihai Coca, Developer Manager of TETAPOL

With regards to the future, one thing is certain – everything we do must take into consideration the changes in climate caused by the stress that humans are putting on planet Earth in order to maintain our living standard. But this standard is being challenged every day due to growing urbanisation which was set at 51 percent this year and is expected to rise another 19 percent by 2050. The rapid changes we experience nowadays require technologies that are able to keep up with

In times of transformation, it’s necessary to draw a clear image of the reasons behind the need for change and a long-term vision to be able to find the best solutions for the problematic issues. Today’s cities are dynamic and in a continuous transformation which many times involves the implementation of smart solutions. Still, there is a significant problem when it comes to framing these cities into the European standards for smart cities because they lack a strategy on wh

Since social bonds have a well-defined target, Smart City project managers either have to find other forms of finance for their projects or have, within their projects, solutions that comply with public funding regulations. If the project itself is already a challenge, finding investors adds to the hard work required throughout the process of adapting the city to the needs of the environment and citizens. Digital Greenwich is a Smart City project in the Royal Borough of Green

Cities around the world are gathering huge amounts of data that contribute to a large extent in their transformation towards being smarter. Data and IoT have great potential to solve issues of city planning, water management, lighting or transportation and this potential has to be fitted well into solutions. Still, municipalities are struggling to make ends meet when it comes to making reliable measurements that will not only be of help on the local level but could eventually

Transportation and mobility – two of the most complex issues modern societies are confronted with today. The combination of a growing population and the need to reduce personal car use is forcing authorities to find solutions which allow people to easily commute to and from the city. Public servants have come up with lots of interesting ways to engage people in public transportation or other alternatives to using their own car. From city cards which offer discounts to regulat