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OnDemand Panel Debate: Paving the way towards sustainability with proactive strategies & intelligent transport system

This SmartCitiesWorld panel discussion is now available OnDemand and brings cities together for bilateral learnings on the challenges and potential solutions to sustainability by utilising intelligent transport systems (ITS). The CSO of the City of Vilnius - European Green Capital 2025 are among the speakers.

Panel Debate (OnDemand): Technologies and policies to accelerate the decarbonisation of the built environment

This SmartCitiesWorld panel discussion focuses on how to decarbonise the built environment, from municipal buildings to public indoor and outdoor spaces.

Special Reports

A clean and efficient future: energy in focus at Cities Climate Action Summit 2024

Discover how this year’s Cities Climate Action Summit puts the spotlight on the switch to clean and renewable energy, and the importance of energy-efficiency.

SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024: experience ‘Tokyo 2050’ todaySponsored by The SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024 Showcase Program Executive Committee

Discover innovative concepts to solve urban issues through SusHi Tech Tokyo’s programme focused on leveraging diverse ideas, digital know-how and cutting-edge technologies.

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile –Shenzhen

SmartCitiesWorld City Profiles explore the city of Shenzhen, designated as China’s first special economic zone and a role model of urban modernisation. Find out more about Shenzhen’s smart city strategy in this 16-page report.

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Sydney

In 2020, the City of Sydney released a Smart City Strategic Framework to harness the opportunities brought about by digital disruption, to plan for uncertainty and to sustain a global reputation as a leading place to live, work, learn and visit.

Podcasts

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 19 - The intersection between risk, resilience and insurance

The Urban Exchange welcomes Miami-Dade County’s Galen Treuer and Howden’s Peter Adams to explore the challenges facing residents and insurers in the face of climate events.

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 18 - Dr. Tavida Kamolvej, City of Bangkok - Holistic disaster resilience

Dr. Tavida Kamolvej, Deputy Governor in Bangkok, joins the Urban Exchange Podcast to discuss the city’s forward-thinking plans for disaster resilience.

Opinions

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the speaker: Jonathan Carr-West, Local Government Information Unit

Jonathan Carr-West, chief executive of the Local Government Information Unit, says tackling climate change is a universal issue so collaborative events like Cities Climate Action Summit are essential.

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the speaker: Mark-Emil Talivere, City of Tallinn

Mark-Emil Talivere, innovation expert for the City of Tallinn, on why he’s taking part in this year’s Cities Climate Action Summit, how cities can get ahead, and how his city is showing the way.

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dallas

Smart Cities Reports

Discover how the City of Dallas is pushing ahead with its smart city efforts with the latest new-look City Profile from SmartCitiesWorld.

Latest Trend Report

Air Quality Trend Report 2024

Trend Series

We assess the current trends in air quality monitoring and improvement, identifying projects, policies and technologies that are aiding cities in creating more liveable and breathable urban environments.

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OnDemand Panel Debate: Paving the way towards sustainability with proactive strategies & intelligent transport system

Webinars

This SmartCitiesWorld panel discussion is now available OnDemand and brings cities together for bilateral learnings on the challenges and potential solutions to sustainability by utilising intelligent transport systems (ITS). The CSO of the City of Vilnius - European Green Capital 2025 are among the speakers.

Latest Podcast

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 19 - The intersection between risk, resilience and insurance

Urban Exchange Podcast

The Urban Exchange welcomes Miami-Dade County’s Galen Treuer and Howden’s Peter Adams to explore the challenges facing residents and insurers in the face of climate events.

Latest Urban Exchange Podcast

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 19 - The intersection between risk, resilience and insurance

Urban Exchange Podcast

The Urban Exchange welcomes Miami-Dade County’s Galen Treuer and Howden’s Peter Adams to explore the challenges facing residents and insurers in the face of climate events.

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The latest news on fibre networks in smart city projects across the world.

Virgin Media O2 deploys 4G and 5G smart poles

Virgin Media O2 deploys 4G and 5G smart poles

4G and 5G28 Mar 2024

As well as boost connectivity, the smart poles can provide a smart city infrastructure to roll out applications and services such as electric vehicle charging.

Wireless Broadband Alliance completes public wifi trial in London

Wireless Broadband Alliance completes public wifi trial in London

4G and 5G19 Mar 2024

Proof-of-concept enabled phone users to seamlessly connect to wifi and move between cellular and wifi connectivity via an existing OpenRoaming profile or app.

Partnership “supercharges” London’s smart, connected roadmap

Partnership “supercharges” London’s smart, connected roadmap

4G and 5G15 Mar 2024

Boldyn Networks and G.Network will help create a new high-speed fibre network across London and deploy small-cell units in busy areas of the UK capital.

How cities can benchmark progress to becoming a gigacity

How cities can benchmark progress to becoming a gigacity

Fibre networks11 Mar 2024

Report from the World Broadband Association sets out the criteria required to be described as a gigacity and calls for greater investment by global governments.

Huawei and Unilumin collaborate on smart pole solution

Huawei and Unilumin collaborate on smart pole solution

4G and 5G05 Mar 2024

Solution is designed to promote the construction of smart cities that emphasise secure, efficient city operations, and comprehensive city sensing management.

Mobile operators commit $9bn to global connectivity

Mobile operators commit $9bn to global connectivity

Inclusivity27 Feb 2024

The UN ITU digital agency made the announcement at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and reckons “universal meaningful connectivity is within our grasp”.

Singapore invests in “future-ready” broadband network

Singapore invests in “future-ready” broadband network

Fibre networks22 Feb 2024

Upgraded Nationwide Broadband Network will be the backbone of future applications and innovation for Singapore at speeds up to 10 times faster than today.

Fibre connectivity deployed across London boroughs

Fibre connectivity deployed across London boroughs

Fibre networks12 Feb 2024

Wandsworth, Richmond and Merton are the latest boroughs to benefit from a high-speed fibre network as part of the mayor’s wider Connected London programme.

FiberLight assigns $20m for Texan autonomous highway project

FiberLight assigns $20m for Texan autonomous highway project

Connected and autonomous vehicles09 Feb 2024

As part of the project, FiberLight is providing high-speed 10- and 100GB connectivity to the Public Infrastructure Network Nodes across some 92 miles of SH 130.

UK continues fibre rollout to hard-to-reach communities

UK continues fibre rollout to hard-to-reach communities

Fibre networks06 Feb 2024

As part of the UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit, CityFibre will subsidise the deployment of full fibre infrastructure to more than 202,000 rural properties.

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Manchester launches People’s Panel for AI

The panel aims to provide residents with access to education and training on AI, enabling local communities to influence the development of AI initiatives.

What is ‘Smart City’ and why do we need them?

Smart city is the framework based on Information and Communication technologies that enable the development of sustainable practices to address the urbanisation challenges. Leveraging the technology is one of the foremost pillars of ‘smart cities’ in order to increase efficiencies and improve the quality of resident’s life and the city’s services.

UK train station harvests kinetic energy from commuters’ footsteps

The project at Leighton Buzzard station aims to show how untapped footfall energy at transport hubs represents a real opportunity to provide sustainable energy sources.

SmartCitiesWorld to host second Cities Climate Action Summit

The in-person (London) and online event takes place 26-27 June and will convene city leaders, climate experts and organisations from around the world.

Riyadh to deploy smart pole infrastructure pilot

The project follows an agreement between Apollo International and Riyadh-based House of Invention to deploy smart poles and infrastructure across the Kingdom.

SmartCitiesWorld Newsletters (Daily/Weekly)

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Guest Opinions

The importance of broadband to socioeconomic development

Martin Creaner, director general of the World Broadband Association, says the digital divide discussion needs to move ...

How wireless networks are supporting the energy transition Sponsored by Huawei

Power grid company State Grid Jiangsu turned to a private wireless network when it needed to urgently build a comms ...

How all-optical network infrastructure can re-shape smart citiesSponsored by Huawei

Huawei’s Kim Jin explains how deploying the right communications networks now can help to futureproof cities against as ...

Smart cities at the heart of a digital Middle East

David Shi, President, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei Middle East explains how the shift to a more digital economy ...

Smart cities are only as good as their connectivity

The promise of smart cities needs a strong network to back it up, writes Jamie Hayes, Mobile Network Operators Director,...

Fibre can transform society but only if governments are prepared to give a helping handSponsored by Fotech

Governments need to do more to help fibre providers widen their networks, writes Stuart Large, Product Line Director & B...

Could FWA be the answer to keeping people connected during the global pandemic?

Fixed Wireless Access’s speed and flexibility could have it serve a crucial role in helping businesses and public ...

New energy, changing behaviour and blockchain: 5 transport predictions for 2020

Rabih Arzouni, Fujitsu UK’s CTO of transport, shares his transport predictions for the year ahead.

Special Reports

Podcast: How distributed acoustic sensing can give greater insight into your smart city, with Fotech

Podcast: How distributed acoustic sensing can give greater insight into your smart city, with Fotech

City Profiles

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dallas

Discover how the City of Dallas is pushing ahead with its smart city efforts with the latest new-look City Profile from SmartCitiesWorld.

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile –Shenzhen

SmartCitiesWorld City Profiles explore the city of Shenzhen, designated as China’s first special economic zone and a role model of urban modernisation. Find out more about Shenzhen’s smart city strategy in this 16-page report.

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Las Vegas

SmartCitiesWorld City Profiles explore the city of Las Vegas with its unprecedented growth, urban development, and leaps of imagination.

Research

White Paper: Building truly sustainable cities

White Paper: Building truly sustainable cities

This white paper covers how connected systems can help cities build sustainability and wellbeing into their indoor and outdoor spaces. We look at the scale of the decarbonisation challenge faced by cities, how cities can use connected technologies to create greener buildings and the vital role of retrofitting. We includes detailed analysis of the energy and cost-savings that energy efficiency programmes can bring in cities.

City data spaces: A guide to building and operationalising data services

City data spaces: A guide to building and operationalising data services

How data spaces are transforming data sharing, and establishing new frameworks to create data services to improve urban services and liveability.

The art of the practical: a guide to implementing smart spaces

The art of the practical: a guide to implementing smart spaces

This white paper explores how smart infrastructure can enhance the people experience, increase operational efficiency and boost the sustainability and security of smart spaces such as airports, campuses and stadiums.
By reading this whitepaper, you will learn:
• How to create smart spaces that are safe and sustainable
• How to ensure more predictive and proactive management of these spaces
• The role of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning
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Webinars

OnDemand WEBINAR: The million sensors you didn’t know you already have. The unexpected value of a city’s fibre revealed

OnDemand WEBINAR: The million sensors you didn’t know you already have. The unexpected value of a city’s fibre revealed

OnDemand WEBINAR: Open Cities: Why interoperability and 6LoWPAN matter

OnDemand WEBINAR: Open Cities: Why interoperability and 6LoWPAN matter

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