Smart IT & Communications

According to a survey conducted by IDC on the most trusted vendors for US Smart City transformation, Microsoft was ranked the most trusted vendor. IDC asked the following two questions as part of their survey. Do you expect the following technology suppliers will enable the digital transformation that will help create smart cities? What is the overall customer satisfaction with the offerings of technology suppliers? Microsoft was the top scored vendor in both questions. As per IDC report, Microsoft’s satisfied installed base coupled with its extensive work on building cloud...

Delivering value that exceeds the sum of its parts, smart cities will help us along the road to utopia. We will be able to address the key challenges of our day, issues like traffic congestion, outdated utility infrastructure, safety, the expense of healthcare, our education crisis, and our increasing demand for energy. That’s the promise of IoT when applied to smart cities — not simply adding more technology to our lives, but enabling a new and fully integrated approach to how we design and develop cities moving forward. But making...

Arrow Electronics is collaborating with AIRmaker, a Singapore-based Internet of Things (IoT) accelerator, to help start-ups transform fresh ideas into sustainable businesses. As a technology advisor, Arrow will help AIRmaker programme start-ups become more effective and productive in their idea-to-impact product journey. “We are confident that our collaboration with Arrow will bring value-add to our business framework and processes and we are excited to see the transformation it will bring to our programme participants,” said Kwai Seng Lee, managing director, AIRmaker. “Arrow provides industry-leading end-to-end IoT capabilities and offerings that...

Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited (ST Electronics) announced the launch of its World of IoT – Sense & eXchange (WISX IoT) platform on Day One of CommunicAsia2017. The WISX IoT platform is designed to integrate multiple IoT solutions into a common platform that facilitates data exchange and analysis. Developed to support IoT solutions for smart city initiatives worldwide, the platform aims to enhance city services and improve the quality of life for residents. The platform can be used for applications such as integrated estate management. The WISX IoT platform leverages ST...

Philadelphia has spent the better part of a year serving as a testing ground of sorts for an innovative team inside Comcast. Since last October, this team has been quietly developing a new Internet of Things (IoT) business called machineQ, a network designed for the implementation of smart cities technologies, among other innovative uses. Not only can the machineQ network gather, transmit and create intelligence from the physical world via sensors, but it has the potential to have a huge impact on how we think about solving challenges and innovating...

A new platform aims to provide deep learning analytics to video streams produced from smart city applications. Nvidia’s platform, Metropolis, takes data captured by cameras deployed in government properties, public transit systems, commercial buildings, and roadways, and then runs it through AI to help cities monitor video instantaneously. According to Nvidia – it’s the foundation of the AI City—an edge-to-cloud platform that can turn anonymized video into valuable insights. The idea is that cities are overflowed with video data and need a system that can focus attention on what matters...

The 5G network, augmented reality, machine learning and other innovations are delivering a wealth of options to rapidly advance the power of Smart Cities technology. The Smart Cities Technology Roadmap helps city planners know what’s on the horizon for tomorrow so that they can start developing their technology vision today. It is developed by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), an organization that brings together the top global information and communication technology (ICT) companies. The Roadmap is the first ICT industry publication for city decision makers including CTOs, CIOs...