Smart Cities News

The speed at which 5G is deployed worldwide will have a significant impact on how soon it will become the defining technology of smart cities, says Babak Beheshti.

Shobhit Jain, Director of Product Innovation at HERE Technologies, shares his insights on how to succeed with public-private partnerships.

The US city is collaborating with Syracuse University and Microsoft to drive its smart initiatives forward.

Croydon, Kingston-upon-Thames, Merton, Richmond-upon-Thames and Sutton will work with the innovation centre on relevant use cases for citizens and local businesses.

Cities play a growing role in improving the health of the general public.

Telefónica and SEAT will work with Spain’s Directorate General for Traffic to deploy Internet of Things technology to reduce accidents on Spanish roads.

The organisations will help to advance autonomous vehicle and infrastructure research at the Curiosity Lab, a 5G-enabled smart city living lab in the Atlanta suburb.

A public-private project has equipped the 20-storey building in the Scottish city with IoT technology, free fibre-optic broadband and will provide digital inclusion classes.

The smart cities sector is primed for disruption by low power Internet of Things technologies, according to a report by Juniper Research.

The Department of Homeland Security is collaborating with the city and the Open Geospatial Consortium on the project which will involve testing an interoperability framework.