Tag: smart cities
Level39’s Cognicity Hub to help develop smart cities
The Canary Wharf Group and Level39 have announced The Cognicity Hub, following the success of the Cognicity Challenge. The project aims to help grow...
Barcelona partners with Cisco to pioneer IoT smart city
Barcelona is working with technology firm Cisco to create an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that will reduce the complexity, costs and the time...
ITU-IT experts discuss IoT and smart city standards
Technologists are meeting in Singapore this week to talk about developing global standards for the growing areas of IoT and smart cities.
The International Telecommunication...
UK urged to create Office of Data Analytics for smarter cities
A new study, titled “Smart Devolution,” advocates the creation of a dedicated team of data experts in order to make cities smarter and more...
Four UK universities win £4m grant to research IoT sensor systems...
Educational institutions will work on smart cities, the Internet of Things, Big Data and self-driving vehicles.
Four UK universities have been granted £4 million of...
German firm Graphmasters leverages Splunk and IoT for smarter travel
German navigation provider Graphmasters says that it is using Splunk Enterprise’s IoT capabilities to provide better, faster and traffic-free routes for its customers.
Announcing the...
UK government announces new £24 million IoT research centre
Ed Vaizey, the UK Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy, today announced the launch of a new interdisciplinary research hub which...
CES 2016: AT&T partners with tech giants for smart city projects
In order to build ‘smart’ connected communities as part of an Internet of Things initiative, AT&T has partnered with Cisco, Del with Cisco, Deloitte,...
Red tape threatens to dumb down smart cities
Smart city deployments are well under-way across the globe, but in India some problems around cost and governmental control are starting to emerge.
The aspirations...
Thousands of IoT lights cut costs and carbon footprint in Gloucestershire
Smart lighting is already available in consumer’s homes, but now the streets of Gloucestershire will also benefit from intelligent, wirelessly controlled lighting.
The deployment is...
Cisco chief: new IT foundations key for IoT growth
The IoT is already ‘dramatically disrupting’ says Cisco exec chairman Chambers as his firm now goes eyes down on the smart cities market.
Corporately coiffured...
Manchester wins £10 million in IoT funding for smart city project
Manchester has been awarded £10 million in funding from the UK Government's Internet of Things competition. The money will see the city develop smart-city...