Cities of the Future

17/01/2021

Open Data and Smart Cities, so important https://bit.ly/38OWRO3

Click to copy https://computerworld.com.br/inovacao/catalisadores-de-transformacao-cidades-inteligentes-e-open-data/ Cities are changing and changing

17/01/2021

How Dijon is becoming France's leading smart city https://bit.ly/3sz204U

Via the digital transformation of its entire urban infrastructure, the French city of Dijon has cut it service costs by 40%, with several more benefits to come.

01/05/2020

The idea of the hero stems from antiquity, heroes protect the rest of us from danger and allow us to continue living our comfortable lives. But, what happens when one is thrown into heroism without being asked?

27/04/2020

Connected & Autonomous Cars Are Using More Power and Fuel

A study published by researchers at the University of Michigan and the Ford Motor Innovation Center in February, shows that autonomous cars could have a substantial energy toll, effectively making them more polluting than current manually driven vehicles The technology installed in connected vehicle...

27/04/2020

Patent Litigation Expected to Soar in 2017

There has been a surge in patent litigation in the past five years, fueled by the accumulation of patents by Non-Practicing-Entities (NPEs) or Patent-Assertion-Entities (PAEs), commonly known as “patent trolls.” Of the over 7,500 patent trials and appeals filed in 2015, patent trolls filed 66.9%...

27/04/2020

Barcelona getting ready for MWC19

The clock is ticking down to the biggest mobile technology show in the world. In less than two weeks Barcelona will receive 100,000+ delegates and 2,400 exhibitors from over 200 countries and territories for the Mobile World Congress. The combination of 5G, IoT, and edge computing, coupled with AI a...

26/04/2020

“London’s toxic air is an outrage” says Sadiq Khan

Mayor launches first Low Emission Bus Zone to tackle toxic air‎ The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today delivered the capital’s first ever Low Emission Bus Zone in one of the most polluted areas of London, Putney High Street. The clean bus zone, which runs a total of 145 buses on seven scheduled...

26/04/2020

New WiFi Standards White-Fi and HaLow for IoT Connectivity

While 5G promises the possibility of fast low-cost connections and the ability to support of 100x more devices, the IoT industry can’t wait until those new 5G networks are ready and operating worldwide before deploying the billions of devices that will be online by the end of this decade. To avoid...

26/04/2020

Technology, and autonomous vehicles will disrupt mobility the next decade

Technology, and the change of demographics in the twenty-first century, will make connected cars and automated mobility services the next big business for electronics manufacturers, more than computers and smartphones.   Cities need a new mobility ecosystem In 30 years the majority of the world’s...

26/04/2020

Uber GM for Spain argues driverless model will create jobs

Despite the fatal crash in Arizona and growing fears that taxi drivers will lose their livelihood, Juan Galiardo says he is optimistic that the transition to driverless will “ultimately be beneficial.” Dllu/Wikimedia Commons Back in 2014, Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick explained during ...

25/04/2020

Europe’s GDPR Hits Global IoT Supply Chain

The most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years will affect all products and services that collect user data. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires products to incorporate data protection by design and for companies to disclose any data breach imm...

25/04/2020

How the Internet of Things Enables the Circular Economy

Ellen MacArthur,founder of Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and a global expert on circular economy,gave a keynote during the first European Circular Economy Summit, held in Barcelona together with the Smart City Expo World Congress. After describing her experience as a sailor, and how going solo around....

25/04/2020

Traffic patterns are going to drastically be very different, says Micromobility expert

While some bike-sharing systems are being shut off to reduce mobility, others are experiencing a sudden increase of demand as people avoid mass transit Bico AI, a British company founded in 2018, provides intelligence solutions for the micromobility industry, directly to operators of scooter and bik...

25/04/2020

Forty-eight Global Cities Work on Regulatory Framework for Digital Platforms

During the Sharing Cities Summit 2018 global cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Lisbon, Madrid, Montreal, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Stockholm and Vienna have agreed on a Declaration of Principles and Commitments of the Sharing Cities Barcelona. An action plan aims to establish...

24/04/2020

To comply with GDPR, most data should remain at the edge — IoT Times

During his recent speech at the European Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook praised the GDPR as an example that other governments should follow.   “This year, you’ve shown the world that good policy and political will can come together to protect the...

24/04/2020

This crisis will reshape the way we understand city living

Tel Aviv Foundation's CEO says city leaders need to listen and be patient to learn from the current crisis. Also, the large events and crowds won't be back for some time, but that could be a good thing

24/04/2020

European Union Approves Conflict Minerals Regulation

The Regulation will cover EU imports of minerals tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold from all countries in the world, and is the first mandatory law of this kind to be truly global in its scope. On Thursday 16 March, at its plenary meeting, the European Parliament (EP) voted on the proposed Conflict Mi...

24/04/2020

Islands of the World Get Their Own Smart Congress

The three plenary sessions will look into the role of islands as committed examples of sustainability; islands in a connected world; and change-makers and economic development. After six years of successful Smart City Expo World Congresses in Barcelona, the island of Majorca will host one that focus...

23/04/2020

London adds five new Low Emission Bus Zones

In his latest measure to tackle London’s lethal toxic air, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has added five new ‘clean air’ Low Emission Bus Zones in some of the capital’s worst polluted hotspots. Only buses that meet the cleanest emission standards will operate within the new Low Emission Bus...

23/04/2020

Urban Climate Policies Can Create Nearly 14 Million Jobs in Cities

29,000 premature deaths could be prevented each year in the EU; 115,000 in China and 270,000 premature deaths could be prevented in South Asia. As cities around the world accelerate efforts to meet their commitments to the Paris Agreement, new research from C40 Cities, The Global Covenant of Mayors...

23/04/2020

Barcelona Facing New Housing Problems, and Airbnb

Barcelona is facing increasing pressure on its housing market, primarily in rental prices. The Mediterranean city, which last year became the third most popular European destination after Paris and London, is facing a new housing crisis. Barcelona Eixample Rents are being pushed up by lack of new ho...

23/04/2020

Primary and Secondary Schools Dive Headfirst into Online Teaching Amid COVID-19

Educators have been drawn into adapting to online teaching overnight. We explore how schools, teachers and parents are dealing with the current reality.

22/04/2020

No Free Parking — Leave Your Car At Home

“There is no such thing as free parking! Free parking represents lost revenue, squandered land and polluted air. Parking garages are not more than an antisocial car subsidy,” writes Donald Shoup in his book “The High Cost of Free Parking.” Free and cheap parking is expensive for cities. It b...

22/04/2020

Smart Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona

Those elegant old Modernist lamp posts along Barcelona’s main shopping avenue, Passeig de Gràcia (Spanish: Paseo de Gracia), are about to become communication towers in disguise. The Gaudí-designed paving tiles that span the widened sidewalks will be hiding the latest technology and miles of fib...

22/04/2020

Tel Aviv Foundation's CEO says city leaders need to listen and be patient to learn from the current crisis. Also, the large events and crowds won't be back for some time, but that could be a good thing

13/04/2020

Educators have been drawn into adapting to online teaching overnight. We explore how schools, teachers and parents are dealing with the current reality.

09/04/2020

By joining the ( ) initiative, youngsters are volunteering to support their lonely elderly neighbours by sharing a home-cooked meal or offering to deliver their groceries and medicines.

28/03/2020

Peterborough: a City Shaping Its Own DNA

Peterborough may not be the first city that pops to mind when one thinks of smart. The press tends to play up the big names like London, Paris and New York. But the smartest cities around the world are sometimes below the radar, transforming their economies with little fanfare. Peterborough’s prof...

28/03/2020

Mobile World Congress Cancelled by GSMA

The organization made this unprecedented move as over 30 companies decided to pull out, including big names such as  Amazon, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Intel, LG, Nokia, Nvidia, NTT DoCoMo, Sony, and Vodafone. The presence of many travelers from China, and the possibility that some of them ...

28/03/2020

After Brexit, London’s Fintech Future is Foggy at Best

Londoners are furious at their fellow Brits. Residents of the capital and surrounding counties voted unequivocally to keep the United Kingdom in the European Union. But their compatriots further north — in fact almost everywhere in England and Wales outside the home counties — voted “L...

27/03/2020

Cyprus to Ban Moustaches and Fake Eyelashes in Schools

A proposal to tighten current school dress codes in Cyprus raises the question as to whether this will change student performance and behaviour or will it just be a makeover with no real results.

27/03/2020

Lisbon will keep the Web Summit for another 10 years

The city of Lisbon will host the popular Web Summit for the next 10 years, the organization has announced, in a € 110 million deal, with a buyout clause of € 3 billion. Ponte 25 de Abril — Lisbon Paddy Cosgrave, CEO of Web Summit, and Antonio Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal revealed toda...

27/03/2020

San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego Lead In Clean Energy

Clean Edge, Inc. yesterday released its seventh annual U.S. Clean Tech Leadership Index, which tracks and ranks the clean-energy and clean-tech activities of all 50 states and the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. The 2016 edition comes at a time of notable acceleration in the nation’s transition...

27/03/2020

London Creates Ethics Panel to Evaluate Use of Facial Recognition

An independent panel that advises City Hall on the ethics of policing in the capital is to examine the use by the Metropolitan Police of facial recognition technology. Today the Mayor of London announced that a new Chair of the London Policing Ethics Panel, the ethical policy expert Dr Suzanne Shale...

26/03/2020

Taxi Drivers, Your Job has an Expiry Date

Autonomous vehicles are already in production and big city taxi drivers could be out of a job in 10 years, including those for Uber and Lyft. It may take 5, 10, or in some cases 20 years, but the taxi driver’s job is destined to disappear. By 2025 most major cities in Europe, Asia and North …

26/03/2020

Tel Aviv Foundation CEO shares her view of what makes a Smart City

Tel Aviv, one of the early recipients of the Smart City Award, has expanded its leadership with the introduction of new tools, such as the new “City Coin” In 2014, Tel Aviv was awarded with the Smart City prize at the Smart City Expo World Congress. Since then, the city has expanded its leadersh...

26/03/2020

Deputy Mayor of London: Diesel NOT the Right Thing for Cities

Cities of the Future sat down with Matthew Pencharz, Deputy Mayor for Environment & Energy for the Greater London Authority (GLA), during the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona. We asked Mr. Pencharz his views about diesel in the city in light of the recent Volkswagen emissions scandal. “...

25/03/2020

Sadiq Khan asks Volkswagen to pay £2.5m in lost congestion charge

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says 80,000 VW owners have not paid congestion charges for years because their cars were marketed as cleaner. Now that the world knows otherwise, he thinks Volkswagen should pay up. Khan recently wrote to Volkswagen asking it to compensate London and its residents for the....

25/03/2020

Zuckerberg Talks About Drones, AI, VR at MWC

In his keynote address at Mobile World Congress, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision of how drones could be used to deliver Internet services to poor populations, and talked about the future of Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence. BARCELONA — In his keynote addre...

25/03/2020

We’ll Make no Wine till the Sensor Tells us it’s Time

As IoT has already entered the wine industry, one group of scientists from Andalusia niche-down and look for ways to improve the Fino sherry fermentation process. The last thing one thinks about while enjoying tapas and sipping a chilled glass of Fino sherry on a summer afternoon is that the dry she...