Tag: Climate change
UK announces £60m green tech competition – but cuts EV subsidies
British innovators and researchers are being invited to pitch new ideas to help tackle the effects of climate change on towns, cities, and the...
Q&A: Giving water the IoT treatment, with Plutoshift CEO Prateek Joshi
With climate change causing more extreme weather, and drought a huge challenge in many parts of the world, there is a widespread need to...
World Space Week: How satellites, data analytics are saving the planet
UPDATED 5 OCTOBER
World Space Week began on Thursday 4 October – a global series of events hosted by the United Nations. This year’s theme:...
Greentomatocars joins IoT network mapping air pollution in London
Environmentally friendly private hire service, Greentomatocars, has joined forces with Drayson Technologies to create a mobile Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network that maps...
Teralytics claims mobile network data lowers cost of tackling climate change
Big data analytics company Teralytics claims to have discovered a way to leverage mobile network data to estimate levels of air pollution in cities.
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GE boss Immelt takes stand against Trump climate change moves
On Tuesday this week, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back climate change regulations introduced by the Obama administration.
The very...
UK homes to get smart meter boost as National Grid selects...
Homeowners in the United Kingdom could soon see next-generation smart meters installed in their homes, following the selection of a software partner by the National...
Climate change will be among KPIs for smart cities by 2020,...
Analysts at Gartner have predicted that half of all smart city objectives will include climate change, resilience and sustainability by 2020.
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