Smart cities are not a new phenomenon in a global context. The drive towards the idea of smart cities may be traced back to the 1970s. As documented by Global Data, Amsterdam in the Netherlands was the first to earn the title of 'smart city', in 1994.
Several projects followed this that focused on funding more data-driven and efficient cities over the next decade, leading to Yokohama in Japan being named a smart city demonstration project in 2010.
Fiware Foundation and the India Urban Data Exchange want to encourage standard-based development of solutions to exchange data among multiple organisations in different application domains.
Open standards non-profit Fiware Foundation is collaborating with the India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) to form the International Data Exchange Alliance (Idea).
Weiterlesen: Data alliance formed to promote global smart city standards
Rather unsurprisingly, urban jungles generate much more waste than towns and villages. As smart cities are on the extreme end of the urbanization spectrum, the waste generated in such places is expectedly huge. Generally speaking, global waste is expected to increase by about 3.40 billion tonnes by 2050. If not managed well, this accumulated waste can have disastrous implications for public health and the environment. Smart cities have the technological means with which waste management can be simplified and made more effective. Various technologies, such as AR, AI and computer vision in smart cities, are used to make such zones clean and sustainable. These technologies assist public waste management agencies in smart cities in a variety of ways.
Weiterlesen: How AR, Computer Vision And AI Coalesce For Smart City Cleaning
How can cities and businesses plan for sustainability and resilience in the face of mass urbanisation, climate change and Covid-19? Is technology and innovation the answer?
At the recent UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (Cop26) in Glasgow, the renewed global commitment to tackle climate change was accompanied by a palpable sense of fresh urgency. How do we turn these pledges into real change with impact that starts today?
Weiterlesen: Building a sustainable and resilient future: a tech-driven plan
Global investment firm Eurazeo has raised an additional €70m for its Eurazeo Smart City II Venture, taking the smart city fund’s total capital raised at second close to €150m.
Eurazeo said the fund, which raised an initial €80m last year, received capital commitments from new institutional and corporate partners in Europe and Asia.
Weiterlesen: Eurazeo raises additional capital for smart city fund