This once-only IoT focussed webinar will deliver free training for town planners, construction managers, IT managers and asset managers to help them harness the power of IoT technology for city design in a post-Cod-19 world, develop new city revenue streams, streamline operations and significantly improve the quality and amenity of the built environment. Alicia Asín […]
Sydney drops, Melbourne rises in innovation ranking
Sydney has dropped five places and Melbourne risen five in the latest ranking of smart cities. The Innovation Cities ranking has been produced since 2007 by 2data analysis company 2thinknow — which is based in Melbourne. It is claimed to be the world’s largest and longest running ranking of cities for innovation. The 2019 ranking […]
Smart City Council’s six steps to sustainable transport
The Smart Cities Council Urban Mobility Task Force has produced a report outlining what it says are six steps that it says must be taken now to address the challenges associated with the ‘first and last mile’ problem and enable uptake of more sustainable transport modes. The report, Mobility Now, released as part of Smart […]
A blueprint for smart city networking
A US group comprising representatives from vendors and municipal organisation has produced a blueprint for smart city networking. The stated aim of the Municipal IoT Blueprint is “to provide state and local government leaders, technology practitioners and researchers, and industry partners with a practical overview of the Internet of Things and how it will affect government […]
The smart city will know who you are and where you are
Smart Cities World reported recently that Somerville in Massachusetts had become the second US city, after San Francisco, to ban the use of facial recognition technology by the city government. It quoted a Boston Globe report that the motion had been passed unanimously by the city council, and quoted the council’s ordinance saying the council had expressed […]
WEF to head G20’s smart city initiative
The World Economic Forum has been appointed by the G20 to lead its Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology and Governance, a global effort to establish universal norms and guidelines for implementation of smart city technology. WEF said the alliance would unite municipal, regional and national governments, private-sector partners and cities’ residents around a shared […]
New ETSI specs for smart cities, smart factories and smart agriculture
The ETSI SmartM2M technical committee has released three new specifications for: smart cities; industry and manufacturing; smart agriculture and food chain domains saying they will enable interoperability and therefore contribute to the development of the global digital market. They are the latest in a series of Smart Applications Reference ontology (SAREF) specifications and follow release […]
Smart cities: Australian leadership in three acts
This is my last smart city blog. So I’m going to let loose. I think Australia has an opportunity to demonstrate leadership—possibly world leadership—in smart cities. It’s not going to be easy. A gambling man would bet against it. The challenges are many. They include: – Very complex processers with lots of interdependent moving parts. […]
Canterbury Bankstown stages future street demo
The council of Canterbury Bankstown in Sydney’s west is staging a future street demonstration to show how smart technology interacts with landscape and design. The future street, in the plaza between North Terrace and Bankstown station, has a display of Wi-Fi equipped smart benches, solar powered bins, e-scooters and e-bikes on display. Planning and design […]
Smart cities: smart data and smart governance
Dr Ian Oppermann is the NSW Government’s chief data scientist and CEO of the NSW Data Analytics Centre. Ian is a thought leader in the digital economy and is a regular speaker on big data and the impact of technology on society. Data governance, or data sharing policy, is fundamental to smart city strategies. I […]
