CIOs and ICT heads must develop a “smart vision” for their cities, region or other local area, claims public ICT representative body Socitm.
As the Government embarks on an £11 billion road revolution, Graham Bradley, UK Country Manager at INRIX, discusses how Smart Motorways can significantly reduce congestion on our roads.
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has published two documents in support of the government’s smart cities standardisation strategy.
The new specification is designed to reduce the number of individual APIs needed by firms that design devices for smart cities and homes.
How? By businesses failing to utilise smart technology appropriately in their organisation and consumers' lack of understanding of how smart tech could benefit them, claims Samsung.
The energy sector has been hit by a new wave of technology and we must now maximise the opportunities presented by the onset of big data and smart systems, thinks Hitachi's Olaf Heil, EMEA-CIS Social Innovation Business Platform CEO.
The term Smart City has been in operation for some time, admits Nick McNamara, VP Sales EU at Eseye - but it looks like the hype's finally coming true.
Cities worldwide are harnessing the power of telecommunications and fast-paced technological developments to get themselves connected and working smarter and more efficiently in terms of use of resources, improved service delivery and quality of life, while supporting the low carbon economy.
ITProPortal spoke to Rashik Parmar about the increasingly pressing topic of smart cities, and why the next generation of urban connectivity will have to be built on opt-in models.
In 2015, there will be 1.1 billion connected devices to the Internet of things being used in smart cities. But in 2020 – that number will rise to 9.7 billion.
Where are our cities headed in the future? What can we expect from the long sought after “smart cities”? Can we really expect anything different?
Anthony Sherick, MD of specialist jobsite Technojobs, voices his concerns for the digital economy and urges election campaigns to address the skills shortage in the UK’s fast-growing technology sector.
The UK has a rich ecosystem for urban innovation that positions the country to take advantage of the £200bn global future cities market, claims a new report.
A survey showed that over half of UK Internet users don’t truly understand how the Internet works and despite that many are enthusiastic about the Smart Cities of the future.
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