August 20, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Do we need ‘quick wins’ to build public support for smart cities? Or is it the IoT sector’s job (quietly and invisibly) to provide better, safer, greener lives for today’s smart citizens? Should we be winning hearts and minds with dazzling services, or silently enhancing the quality of life? Jeremy Cowan gets some surprising answers from Francesca Serravalle, Colt’s emerging technologies director, and Magnus Melander, founder of Sweden-based IoT Alliance, SMSE and tech hub THINGS. Plus sport takes over from space programmes as a top tech-driver. And <<SHOCK NEWS>> Bill Gates may have backed a winner in electric-powered aviation!
August 12, 2021
Posted by: IoT global network
With smart city and building technology on the rise to make our urban infrastructures data-driven, efficient and more liveable, there has been a focus on the place of video technology. (more…)
May 26, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Johnson Controls, a global provider of “smart, healthy and sustainable buildings”, has partnered with DigiCert, a provider of digital certificate services and PKI solutions. Together, they aim to provide customers with the most advanced secure, trusted connectivity for smart building technology. (more…)
May 25, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
J2 Innovations, a Siemens Company and a founding member of Project Haystack, has released Haystack Core, an open-source software library for the latest Haystack 4 open standard. It can be used by developers to create new smart building and IoT applications. (more…)
April 22, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
The World Economic Forum was right to say in a post this month that buildings could be the key to building a sustainable society post-pandemic. (more…)
April 8, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Check out those images of the city of the future and most of them simply combine New York with the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The electric vehicles are a rerun of what happened in 1880, says Dr Peter Harrop, chairman of IDTechEx. (more…)
December 8, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Investors SpaceX, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Baidu, Toyota, Tesla, Hyundai, VW, LG, Apple, and Virgin are involved in smart cities in ways you may not expect. Their involvement spans making complete smart cities from scratch to robot shuttles replacing 10 types of vehicle, vertical take-off taxis, Hyperloop, vertical farming, battery elimination, solar and sensor everything, and structural electronics. (more…)
November 5, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Electriq Power, a developer of intelligent and integrated home energy storage, management, and monitoring solutions, announced at the DISTRIBUTECH conference that it has signed an agreement for IoT solutions from Sierra Wireless, the IoT solutions provider that combines devices, network services, and software to unlock value in the connected economy. (more…)
January 30, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Smart City applications and services seem to be expanding rapidly – smart parking, smart street lighting, climate monitoring, transportation and traffic management are only a few of the categories. One application that is growing in importance and popularity is that of video security. (more…)
October 10, 2019
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
