What “data sharing” is, is pretty obvious: it’s sharing data: between organisations, between people, between departments, between governments. Most people in the smart cities movement have heard of data sharing, and that it’s an important thing. However, there are a number of reasons to put data sharing into the “too hard” basket, or at least […]
History of New Towns
Don’t know much about history Don’t know much biology Don’t know much about science books Don’t know much about the French I took How do smart cities fit into history? What can we learn from previous ideas that aimed to improve urban dwelling? Just as important (and probably more fun), what can we learn from […]
Are there smart ways to pay for smart cities?
The best things in life are free You can keep it for the birds & bees I want Money That’s what I want I’ve had some interesting phone and email feedback on an earlier blog. One struck me. It characterised my outlook on smart cities as “naïve”. Yes! – I like that word! It does […]
Do You Want to Know a Secret?
The event drew a packed house. Fifty people attended, some having travelled across the city, just a few days before the end of the financial year. They included small business owners, the property trade, council staff and others keen to hear about the future of our cities and suburbs. Geoff Heydon, who is associated with Creator […]
5G hype compounding IoT hype
It seems like the hype and misconceptions surrounding 5G and the hype and misconceptions around IoT have compounded to create misconceptions of mammoth proportions. Gartner has reported the results of a survey of 200 IT and business leader members of the Gartner Research Circle in which they identify IoT as the main application for 5G. […]
Too Late (To Say You’re Sorry)?
By Steve Mackay First, a disclosure. For years – some of the best years of my career – I was involved in persuading (we called it ‘educating’) the telcos to adopt new infrastructure and to run new and exciting services on top of it. Correction – new, exciting AND profitable services. That infrastructure was based […]
The Orwellian Smart City
By Steve Mackay Have you ever wondered – what if this wonderful shiny new smart city of the future that we’re trying to build turned out to be an Orwellian* nightmare? I was at a smart city presentation in a prestigious University in South East Asia recently. After the learned presentations there was a quiz. […]
MathWorks makes tidal forecasting easy with IoT and machine learning
MathWorks – a global company that develops mathematical computing software for engineers and scientists, has got into the IoT business with ThingSpeak, a cloud-based service that aggregates, visualises and analyses live data streams in the cloud. In particular ThingSpeak is integrated with MathWorks’ MATLAB computing environment widely used by scientists and engineers. MathWorks argues that […]
Beware of Industry 5.0
I was asked recently if I would like to participate in a “discussion on innovation beyond Industry 4.0” in which I would be asked “to draw a picture of a next revolution such as industry 5.0.” I’d never heard of Industry 5.0. As far as I knew, the next revolution in industry was industry 4.0, […]
Edge computing gets foggier
A few years ago Cisco coined the term ‘fog computing’ for edge computing in IoT networks. The industry recognised the need for harmonising this component of the IoT ecosystem, the name caught on and the OpenFog Consortium was formed in November 2015 with ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Princeton University as founding members. One […]
