Smart cities

• [New] Hitachi offers powerful data analytics capabilities that smart city and MaaS providers and others will be able to tap to develop new public infrastructure solutions and offer compelling new consumer services.
• [New] Technologies like 5 g, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, IoT, Smart Cities, and Smart Homes will play a pivotal role in reshaping businesses, verticals, and economies around the globe.
• Vaccines could feature in the US-China competition over global standards, which already encompasses artificial intelligence, smart cities, and lithium batteries.
• In Southeast Asia, smart cities will play an increasingly important role in generating economic growth and solving complex urban challenges.
• Smart Cities and Smart Spaces, report they anticipate the number of urban digital twins surpass 500 by 2025, with implementations expanding beyond pilots to widespread multi-purpose deployments.
• 5G will play a crucial role in the future of the UK with applications as important as tele-health and smart cities.
• Two Greater Manchester companies will take part in a groundbreaking Smart City Innovation Testbed launched at Salford's MediaCityUK, to discover and test how cities can use technology to adapt to a post-COVID world.
• Through GSI Ventures, Salloway is looking forward to bringing 5G technology to Saudi Arabi, describing it as a $14 trillion global opportunity, not only in terms of technological implementation but also the benefits it brings to health care, digital health, artificial intelligence and smart cities.
• The U.S. could be home to at least nine smart cities by 2025, but development is dependent on leadership, funding and public-private partnerships.
• More than 50% of homes and businesses in the city of London have been already connected through smart meters and 85% of homes and businesses are expected to be connected through smart meters by 2025.
• We can be sure of the fact that forthcoming years will be dominated by wireless technologies such as the 5G network, which is also an essential element in the building of a smart city and will surely take the world to greater heights in the future.
• The Smart City being developed in Ranchi will not only change the lifestyle of the people of Ranchi but also become a model city for other towns in Jharkhand.
• In the process of building a smart city, cities face many common challenges because of the world situation, such as the impacts of non-traditional security; the risks from emerging technologies and other things.
• Middle East and Africa: Smart City investments by GCC countries will drive the growth of leak detection services and software and data analytics solutions.
• 5G-enabled IoT use cases, such as connected vehicles, smart cities, and Industry 4.0, could fundamentally transform industries and drive US competitive advantage in the 2020s.
• By creating an example of the experience and best practices regarding the operation of a smart city based on 5G networks, Barcelona's pilot program will serve as inspiration to other cities that are looking to position themselves for a smarter era.
• With a history of large turnout of qualified visitors and delegates from public and private sectors, as well as opportunities to network with pertinent stakeholders, Smart Cities India is a salient global platform to explore solutions across various industry sectors.
• The Tampa Downtown Partnership will install about 30 digital informational kiosks from IKE Smart City of Columbus, Ohio to provide information on local businesses and serve as free wireless hotspots.
• In the process of building a smart city, cities face many common challenges brought about by the world context, such as the effects of traditional security; the risks from emerging technology.
• On the heels of the all-digital CES 2021, Smart Cities Dive has identified six core trends that experts said are expected to influence the smart city space in the year ahead.
• Despite being one of the most talked - about technologies for smart cities, edge cloud is unlikely to make a major impact in 2021, a new report predicts.

Last updated: 07 March 2021