Singtel and Surbana Jurong are joining forces to accelerate the digital transformation of key industries, initally focusing on smart and sustainable integrated facilities management.
Goal is to investigate how 5G and mobile edge computing could ensure fast, reliable communication between road infrastructure, vehicles and pedestrians sharing the road to reduce collisions.
The platform will enhance existing citizen services and enable city authorities to deliver a range of new ones in areas such as mobility, smart parking, intelligent lighting and sustainable waste management.
Geoverse is the managed service partner for the city’s Citizens Broadband Radio Network being rolled out across the city to support a number of applications as well as facilitate remote learning.
Developed through the Bentley Acceleration Initiatives investment fund and incubator, the solution provides 3D visualisation, real-time decision-support and predictive design from the ground up.
The project, which initially focuses on an area of Scotland, will base network infrastructure feasibility on a range of factors rather than number of people and seeks to address digital divides.
With smart cities as one of its focus areas, each of Capgemini’s 5G labs bids to help organisations across every industry to ‘pivot’ their business to take advantage of 5G and the edge.
The Autonomy Institute and its partners are deploying a public infrastructure network node at Texas Military Department in Austin with plans to expand across major US cities and globally.
The country will move faster to grant permanent urban residency to people who move from rural areas to cities where the industries are more developed to accelerate economic progress.
Bigbelly’s integrated pole and antenna solution is expected to accelerate growth of the UK’s small cell network as well as pave the way for 5G in cities.
The company has rolled out the service to 10 more cities and towns in British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario and has joined the Future of Cities collaborative to develop 5G smart city solutions.
The project has the potential to support the continued revolution in connected automated logistics and provides a 5G core for the North East, positioning it for further investment and growth.
The £7.5bn Bleutech Park development, located in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, will be constructed of net-zero carbon footprint buildings within its own insular mini-city.
Telecoms company T-Mobile, Curiosity Lab and the Georgia Institute of Technology will establish the incubator at Peachtree Corners to support entrepreneurs and start-ups.
Despite recent investment, uptake of 5G across smart city segments will remain low over the next five years though new use cases will emerge, especially in low latency, mission-critical services.
This 5G centre at Purdue University’s Discovery Park District will provide full-suite development and testing capabilities to speed up development and lower costs as well as control risk.
Telecoms company Singtel is partnering with IMDA and academia to attract and build a ready pool of capable talent to help deliver innovative products and services.
Nokia and Brazil’s Telecommunications Research and Development Centre will work together on solutions including those that focus on fixed wireless access smart cities and Industry 4.0 applications.
Cohda Wireless’ cellular vehicle-to-everything solution will help to establish a cooperative, intelligent road transport system that aims to make roads safer and less congested.
Cradlepoint’s study sets out to reveal the state of critical communications and key drivers impacting digital innovation in the US public safety sector.
The council will create a driverless shuttle service for moving people and goods across the UK town’s major stadium as well as invest in drones for enhancing security and robots for goods delivery and hospitality.
The open-access full fibre infrastructure is forecast to boost business productivity and innovation as the CityFibre deployment aims to reach “nearly every home and business" in the UK city.
The first day of the online event confirmed that the smart cities sector is well aware of its destination but it’s how it gets there that will be the problem.
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