During the Smart Cities Connect Conference this week, tech leaders from Ohio and Colorado shared how digital operations morphed and grew during the COVID-19 crisis because of the earlier efforts to build smarter cities.
Data-sharing, more digitally supported services and increased public meetings participation are some of the unexpected silver linings cities have encountered in the last eight months of the COVID-19 crisis.
Weiterlesen: US: Smart City Work Laid the Foundation for COVID Innovations
Signs are an effective way to communicate with a human driver, but self-driving vehicles? Not so much. A can of spray paint or black tape is all you need to trick some AVs into driving the wrong speed limit (that really happened). What’s needed is a way to communicate official parking rules, speed limits, and legitimate traffic variances, and right now there isn’t an easy way to explain to self-driving cars that “alternative side of the street parking” is in effect because of a parade. But Inrix has developed a new platform to make easy for cities to do that.
Smart cities that want to enhance traffic management, air quality, and city planning will depend on interoperable IoT. City networks are evolving gradually, however, the networks do not work as efficiently as expected.
As connectedness between smart cities grows, the impact of attacks could prove to be catastrophic. The Securing Smart Cities initiatives seek to increase collaboration with cities, companies, governments, individuals, and nonprofit enterprises globally to defend against cyberattacks.
But securing and managing the information technology that enables work from home is a top challenge during the pandemic, respondents indicated.
Most federal employees believe telework is here to stay, but figuring out how to manage information technology systems will be a top challenge for mass federal telework in the long term, according to a survey.
Project OVERCOME, led by US Ignite and funded by the National Science Foundation, will select five proof-of-concept projects to grow access to broadband connectivity in underserved or unserved areas.
The development of broadband service in disadvantaged communities has received the attention of a leading advancer of smart cities initiatives.
US Ignite, a tech nonprofit charged with bolstering smart communities, has launched Project OVERCOME, which will select and build out five proof-of-concept broadband projects in underserved or unserved communities. This effort is being funded, in part, by a $1.95 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Weiterlesen: US Ignite Announced Project OVERCOME to Grow Broadband Access