International

This summer, The City of Memphis, Tennessee, will get its first smart city research results back from its partners at the University of Memphis. In November, the city awarded five $10,000 grants to professors who proposed ideas that the city may someday develop to support its smart city vision. In its grant description, Gov. Jim Strickland highlighted a desire to focus research on areas surrounding crime, litter, blight and efficient government. A fifth category was left open to new ideas. The five grant winners were: A Planning Support System for Comprehensive...

Sensity Systems Inc., provider of leading Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for Smart Cities, today announced two leadership appointments and the addition of four advisors to its Advisory Board. Sensity’s new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is Geoff Arnold, an industry veteran in distributed systems and cloud computing, while Tahir H. Khan has been appointed as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). The new Sensity Advisory board members are James Gosling, known as the ‘father’ of the Java programming language, Ed Davis, the former Police Commissioner of Boston, the Honorable Steve Goldsmith,...

In a practical guide for smart city development and management, published last week, the bank highlighted the importance of removing silos within government and engaging citizens in the process of developing a sustainable city, managed through new technologies, from start to finish. In particular, digitisation should be used to increase transparency and enable citizens to monitor city finances, which should be raised from a variety of sources and have the support of different players, it said. Financial sustainability is one of the biggest barriers to smart city development, it continued,...

SAP and Intel will demonstrate the latest smart city solutions at the Internet of Things Exhibition (IoTX) running from March 29 to 31 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The solutions will cover Smart Cranes with SK Solutions, Smart Building Management, and Smart Transport with connected buses, a statement said. On March 29, Irfan Khan, chief technology officer, SAP will be available for interviews on topics such as IoT, Digital Economy, Digital Transformation, Smart Cities, Connected Sports, and Connected Farming....

The announcement by Trendit, an Israeli-registered provider of cutting-edge technology for real-time monitoring of crowd behavior, population movement and trend analytics, to raise £4 million (c.$6m) imminently through a new share offering on the London Stock Exchange ’s main market could pave the way for an “exit at some stage” over the next few years. It chose London over New York to list as a result of strong investor interest in data analytics firms and the UK’s handy international time zone. Well, this is the exit game plan if –...

IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, recently announced the selection of Kansas City, Missouri, USA, and Casablanca, Morocco as its newest municipalities to engage as IEEE Core Smart Cities. Kansas City and Casablanca were selected from more than 15 applicants as the cities that provided the most compelling evidence they are well positioned to utilize the resources offered through the IEEE Smart Cities Initiative and by demonstrating plans to invest human and financial capital into their project. Project representatives for Kansas City and Casablanca have...

Cities around the world are using technology to improve the lives of their citizens. See what puts these eight communities ahead of the curve. Barcelona Barcelona is often touted as being the smartest city in the world. It has been on the forefront of using technology to improve urban life, and many of its smart city projects have been highly successful. Big data is a critical part of the success that Barcelona’s smart city projects have had. One such example is collecting and monitoring energy consumption within city buildings. This...