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Internet Of Autonomous Vehicles: Improving Mobility On Our Cities
Almost nothing will happen without some form of movement. Mobility is one of the non-negotiables in urban life.…
Redefining Agriculture With IoT-Based Monitoring
Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of objects which can directly exchange data with one another without…
A Smart City Is, Because Its People Are.
By 2030, 60 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in mega-cities. How all those people…
How the Internet of Things Could Transform Public Services
Cars that can communicate with each other to avoid collisions. Thermostats that can be controlled from thousands of…
Driverless Buses, Coming Soon, Also Made In China
Notice anything odd about this bus tooling along a highway in China’s Henan Province? Look again. The dude…
The Top 10 Cities Of The Future
If you think about it, human settlements tend to have their own gravitational pull. Like stars and planets…
How Driverless Cars And Big Data Intersect in Simulated City
The fun thing about driverless cars is the cars, of course: how they recognise and stop for pedestrians,…
How North Dakota Uses Drones For City Improvement
The addition of night flying opens up the opportunities to test sensor payloads in all lighting conditions. The…
Would You Share Private Data For A Better City?
In the 1950s, a decade after he outlined the theory of the Big Bang and the expanding…
The Cloud Cities Where Urban Automation Is A Reality
Remote storage, big data and the Internet of Things are often discussed separately, but together they’re the driving…
From Old Port City To Smart City
Aside from the occasional ferry down from England, the old Spanish port city of Santander doesn’t get too…
The Rise Of The Sensor-Based Smart City
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second largest city, is about to be flooded. Not by storms, which have proved…
6 Principles In Planning City-Level Sensor Projects
In Montreal, bus and subway riders who use the transit system’s OPUS smart fare card and have a…
Wellington In New Zealand Experiments With Parking Sensors
Thousands of sensors are to be installed around Wellington to keep an eye on parking overstayers. A $1.4 million…
Scaling Up Sensor-Based Smart Cities Proves Difficult
As Santander, Rio and other cities have demonstrated, sensor-based solutions have the potential to impact a broad range…