Intergeo, Stuttgart, Sept. 18, 2015—Swedish 3D industry repeatedly has innovated in public use of 3D and in particular in external city planning applications and has received several international awards. Now again Swedish cities are involved in projects…

Connode Engaging with Reliance Energy in Building Smart Sustainable City Network in Mumbai
Sept.16, 2015—Connode is working with Reliance Energy in Mumbai as the strategic partner for communication solutions and applications using Intel®…

INTERGEO Host City Stuttgart Ready to Meet the Smart City Challenge
Stuttgart / Karlsruhe – The worldwide trend towards urban growth is changing the way of life in built-up areas. Environmental and traffic issues are…

San Jose Partners with anyCOMM in IoT Smart City Pilot
In the US, the city of San Jose has partnered with embedded software solutions provider, anyCOMM. The partnership leverages the Internet of Things (IoT) to add Internet-connected devices atop city streetlights, enabling detection of natural disasters and traffic…

AGT International Joins Prestigious EU European Smart City Project
Zurich, Switzerland, June 15, 2015—AGT International, a global leader in advanced Internet of Things (IoT) analytics, today announced its participation in one of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Lighthouse Projects. AGT will be working with the German…

Urban Resilience in the Smart City: River Flood and Forest Fire Early Detection
Urban and territorial management systems based on wireless sensor networks already maintain and prevent the disruption of essential city services, in Smart City installations across the globe. By linking the physical world to the Internet, Internet of Things…

OGC Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework White Paper Available
Feb. 25, 2015—The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework white paper. This essential document for Smart City systems planning is available free at https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=61188.…
Boston University Receives National Science Foundation Funding to Develop “Smart City” Cloud Platform
Boston—Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering today announced it has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a “smart-city” cloud platform designed to streamline…

Esri Takes Two Top Awards for Smart City Enablement
Redlands, Calif., Jan. 7, 2015—Technology giant Esri swept two of three awards at TM Forum’s Digital Disruption December 2014 conference in San Jose, California. Both awards honored contributions to the Internet of Things, a futuristic idea for connecting…