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New urban use cases to propel cities' rapid uptake of digital twins

06 Jan 2021

Key factors behind the growth of digital twins include Covid-19 requirements in terms of achieving increased resilience levels and optimised asset and demand-response resource management.

Smart AI-based cameras to transform traffic management by 2025

03 Dec 2020

ABI Research reports that such cameras will enable an increasing number of low latency mission-critical machine vision applications like pedestrian detection and alerting, and real-time surveillance.

Five ‘holistic’ tech trends set to shape smart cities in 2020

23 Dec 2019

ABI Research’s analysts have identified 35 trends that will shape the technology market and lead to cities developing advanced urban strategies over the next 12 months.

Digital twins could form the "end game" for optimum smart city design

11 Sep 2019

Research finds that urban digital twinning and city modelling technology is having a transformative effect on how cities are designed, monitored, and managed.

Threat factors drive up cities' resilience spending

17 Apr 2019

City governments around the world are becoming more aware of making sure their cities can withstand or recover quickly from unpredictable events and disasters.

Is the near future electric?

10 Aug 2018

Electric vehicle mileage share will exceed 20 per cent by 2030 but only two per cent of all vehicles shipping in 2018 are expected to be electric, finds new report

The softer side of smart cities

20 Jun 2018

Report from ABI Research finds that cities need to address the softer aspects of livability linked to healthcare and education

Singapore tops the smart city rankings

02 May 2018

The smart nation scored highest across all innovation criteria in ABI Research’s ranking of megacities beating the likes of Dubai, London and New York

The future of smart city platforms

19 Mar 2018

Multiple vendors are targeting the smart cities vertical with optimised and dedicated solutions

Smart cities report forecasts trillions in economic growth

24 Jan 2018

More than $20 trillion in benefits to be realised evenly split between tech impact, spin-off effects of public investment

Could smart cities save governments, people and companies $5trillion annually?

07 Dec 2017

A new whitepaper by ABI Research analyses the scope for cost-savings and efficiency as a driver for smart city deployments, smart technologies and the IoT