Smart city solutions empower city governments to acquire distributed city data and unify it while offering a platform to provide innovative solutions for effective city management.
Frost & Sullivan’s Smart City Solutions Growth Opportunities reveals that the sector is evolving from aiming to create traffic management solutions to converging with industry participants creating solutions for data simulation, the sharing economy, social media, and mass transit.
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Open standards can help smart cities prevent tech obsolescence and maximize growth.
The building blocks for a smart city include forward-facing practices and a solid development framework, one expert suggested.
Speaking at the Jan. 12 MITRE Smart City Summit, Michael Dunaway, the program lead of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Global Communities Technology Challenge program, said an open standards approach is crucial for cities to stay smart as technology advances.
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Just how ‘smart’ is Miami anyways? As a city, how does our proclivity towards the tech-forward impact our efforts to build a sustainable, resilient future?
These questions were top of mind at the Smart City Expo Miami, a global conference with local roots, curated by Miami-based Bernardo Scheinkman, CEO of Smart Cities Americas. Over the course of three days, more than one hundred innovators, public officials, and citizens came together in person at the James L. Knight Conference Center in Downtown Miami – while an additional 5,000 attendees from over 85 countries tuned in online.
Which cities, trends and technologies made the smart cities news over the past 12 months? SmartCitiesWorld brings you its 10 most-read stories of 2022.
Digital twins and the metaverse – used together and separately – made the news in the smart city space during 2022, while the Saudi greenfield site Neom and the Korean city of Seoul continued attract attention for their advanced use of technologies.
It's time for smart cities to look beyond the conventional worldview and strive to become self-sustainable to reach climate goals faster and enrich the lives of urban populations in more meaningful ways.
Smart cities have long been perceived as the infrastructural moat against urban population explosion and mass displacement. But as things stand today, they have a long way to go to become the solution we already think they are. The lack of community integration, industry convergence, and siloed innovations have slowed development and are solvable only through more stakeholder outreach and better data management, as well as the synergy between IoT and people's needs.
Weiterlesen: Self-Sustainable Smart Cities: The Next Step For Urban Societies