The electrification of transportation is moving well beyond cars and bikes, and has spread to the maritime sector.
Major ports, like the one in Long Beach, Calif., are transitioning vehicles like forklifts, drayage trucks and even tugboats to emissions-free power. Meanwhile, ferry operators on rivers and other waterways are also eyeing all-electric propulsion.
Read more: US: Ports, Watercraft Are Also Making the Jump to Electric Tech
James Farrell, CIO of Bolingbrook, Ill., outside Chicago, on his city's new chatbot, the importance of working with other jurisdictions and how he gets staff excited about tech projects.
Bolingbrook, Ill., outside Chicago, is like many suburbs these days: Its population is getting younger. This creates a great set of working circumstances for Bolingbrook CIO James Farrell. There is more support of late for technology — inside and outside government — and Farrell and his department are capitalizing on this buy-in to rapidly digitize citizen services.
Read more: US: Illinois: Bolingbrook, Ill., CIO Rapidly Modernizes Digital Services
New York City started the long-awaited rollout Wednesday of an online portal where residents can apply for all city benefits and services, beginning with child care assistance.
Mayor Adams proposed the platform, dubbed MyCity, on the 2021 campaign trail to help trim bureaucracy and repetition across city agencies. Nearly 15 months into his term, its first phase will allow tens of thousands of parents to complete eligibility screeners and a streamlined child care application, and track their status online.
Read more: US: New York City Launches One-Stop Benefits Web Portal
It turns out that I have a low-power, low-bandwidth, long-range IoT network all around me, ready and waiting for my smart gadgets to jump on. Today, Amazon revealed just how far its Sidewalk IoT network penetrates the average American neighborhood.
And it’s deep.
The company’s first Sidewalk coverage map claims that over 90 percent of the US population can access the now public network (it’s limited to the US only). Using a Sidewalk developer test kit supplied by Amazon, I drove around my town to confirm this data and, over three days of traveling more than 40 miles, found that the connectivity was surprisingly strong in my corner of South Carolina, even in the wilds of a national forest.
Read more: US: Amazon just opened up its Sidewalk network for anyone to build connected gadgets on
Makes intelligent infrastructure deployments easier by ensuring interoperability
Ubicquia, Inc., a company dedicated to making intelligent infrastructure simple and cost effective for cities to deploy, today announced its UbiVu® intelligent asset management platform is TALQ® certified. Ubicquia platforms are used by more than 550 customers, including some of the largest cities and utilities in the US. By meeting the TALQ Smart City Protocol standard, Ubicquia ensures its smart city solutions seamlessly communicate and interoperate with other TALQ-certified systems.
Read more: US: Ubicquia Awarded TALQ Certification for Smart City Solutions