Smart Cities News

City Lights: Liz St Louis, Sunderland City Council

27 Oct 2020

Liz St Louis, Assistant Director for Smart Cities at Sunderland City Council, on the importance of connectivity for all, engaging with kids, and snoring dogs.

Robots to join cauliflower pickers after harvesting tech breakthrough

24 Sep 2020

Fieldwork Robotics’ work already bore fruit with automated raspberry picker.

Amazon Sidewalk network to launch this year using Semtech LoRa platform

22 Sep 2020

Tile announced as first third party Sidewalk enabled device

Resilient cities are being redefined by the coronavirus

24 Aug 2020

Covid-19 is showing us what resilience in cities actually is, writes Stephen Zoegall, director of global cities and infrastructure consulting, Accenture.

The future of facial recognition: the impact on smart cities

10 Aug 2020

Has recent controversy scuppered facial recognition’s chances of being a key solution for smart cities? Kate O’Flaherty reports.

Taking a security-first approach to smart cities

03 Aug 2020

Smart cities should learn from decades of cybersecurity practice when building networks, writes Neil Correa, security strategist, Micro Focus

Accelerating city digitisation and avoiding silos with interoperable IoT data model and LPWA networks

02 Jul 2020

Open and interoperable data models will help cities speed up the deployment of smart technologies, writes Stephane Dejean, Chief Marketing Officer at Kerlink.

Special Reports

Smart City Expo day one: think digital, think green, think inclusion

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.