Technology has led the real estate consultants to move beyond the traditional ways of prospecting, writes Anuj Puri, Chairman of Anarock Property Consultants. As much as 70 per cent of modern real estate consultancies’ prospects are today acquired through...
After a pilot survey of the Jayanagar ward using drones, the Bengaluru revenue department is expanding the drone-based project to all wards in Bengaluru. This is one more step towards implementing the ambitious Urban Property Ownership Records (UPOR) project, which...
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is planning to come down heavily on encroachments onto city green spaces and lakes as well as illegal constructions using drones, ET Realty reported. The corporation’s directorate of enforcement, vigilance and...
A group of alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) and the faculty of Civil Engineering have come together to launch India's first 3D printing construction technology. The company that is collaborating with IIT-M in this venture is Tvasta...
The industrial city of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, while not on the official list of cities under the central government’s Smart Cities Mission, is witnessing several internet of things (IoT) applications designed to make the lives of its 1-million-plus residents better....
Saudi mobile telephony operator Zain KSA and Finnish vendor Nokia have signed a MoU to collaborate on a Smart City initiative in Jeddah. The two companies will apply advanced networking technologies in Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing to connect and...
NEC New Zealand is ramping up its Smart City push, showcasing its suite of offerings to central and local government leaders in Wellington last week. NEC is the official technology partner of Land Information New Zealand Smart City coalition, providing the building...
By 2020 it is estimated that there will be 50 billion Internet-connected things, and those connections will be worth $1.3 trillion by 2019. And that's got Verizon Communications and AT&T linked in an epic battle for control over the wireless waves that connect...
Research by Gartner predicts a 30% rise in connected “things” to 6.4 billion devices in 2016. These machine to machine (M2M) devices, networked into the Internet of Things (IoT), are starting to appear in urban, industrial and city environments - from security cameras...
Investors are readying to put billions of dollars into Internet of Things (IoT) market, whose size is estimated to grow from $51.96 billion in 2015 to $147.51 bn by 2020 with at an estimated Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 23.2 per cent. According to a new...
Verizon says Internet of Things is entering a new age in digital space by becoming mainstream in the field of Smart Cities and cited recent deals by big players such as Cisco, GE and IBM. A report said there is a drastic leap from 2014’s connected IoT device count...
Magos Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of state of the art affordable radars that have revolutionized the way perimeter security is viewed, has won the 3C Smart City challenge for the Smart City of Croatá being built in Brazil. This radar will be deployed...
The market is getting flooded with a lot of Internet of Things consumer gadgets that include smart doorbells, WiFi enabled toothbrushes, refrigerators that order groceries and ovens that can be scheduled to cook dinner. What has become known as IoT occurs when: 1.)...
Building talented Internet of Things (LoT) teams is a challenge as it is a uncharted territory and can make and break the path to success. A team of anthropologists, software architects, and designers at Intel Labs have observed dozens of organizations and interviewed...
Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet of Everything (IoE) are touted as technologies that are necessary to run Smart Cities. They include use of sensors, beacons, telematics, fitness trackers, mobile apps, global positioning devices, etc that become ‘connected’...
Leading global ICT solutions provider Huawei has showcased its latest infrastructure and utilities technologies in Dubai, supporting the region’s ongoing Smart City adoption plans at this year’s IoTx event. It exhibited its newly launched Connected Cities Lighting...
Panasonic's green community in Yokohama, scheduled to open in 2018, will reduce carbon emissions by nearly half through a power-sharing system, according to concept designs. Reports said the Tsunashima Sustainable Smart Town will be built on the site of a former...
Israeli firms are tying up with Brazil to develop high-tech solutions for the country’s Smart City landscaping and engineering. Brazil has announced plans to build a Smart City from scratch in its northern territory that will house 20,000 residents of low...
Alphabet's Sidewalk Lab uses data and analytics to better analyse traffic in an effort to reduce congestion. More data means better transportation systems. Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, is hard at work on a new platform called Flow...
Israel-based wireless broadband company Radwin and the US-headquartered communications solutions provider Avaya have entered into strategic partnership for India's ambitious Smart City initiative. The two companies will jointly bid for projects as a part of their...
California-based Silver Spring Networks has announced a new go-to-market partner, Rongwen, for its rapidly growing Smart Cities and smart street lighting business. Rongwen is one of the largest smart LED street light providers and operators in China, and has deployed...
The sudden surge in the demand for IoT sensors is attributable to the burgeoning automotive industry and the proliferating industrial Internet of Things market. The IoT sensors market is also being driven by the rising demand for consumer electronics and the...
Selected cities in the US Smart City competition will get new technologies such as wireless communication for the transport sector. NXP and partner Cohda Wireless will give the winning Smart City wireless communication modules that allow cars to securely exchange data...
Bangalore-based Wipro Limited has entered into a strategic partnership with Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automated systems, to develop convergent solutions for India's proposed Smart Cities. Wipro and Schneider will collaborate to...
Nissan has released a Smart City concept incorporating environmentally friendly energy generation with driverless cars. It uses vehicle-to-grid technology, battery storage, wireless charging, autonomous drive technology and over-the-air connectivity to demonstrate how...
The administration of the Indonesian city of Bekasi has launched an ambitious Smart City programme with the establishment of a command centre including real-time parking records and use of public monitoring application Qlue. Amid criticism that the municipality...
A survey has found that America’s cities have been slow in incorporating the autonomous vehicles technology into their plans. But the announcement of $50 million plans under Smart City challenge changed all this for futuristic transport vision. The US Department of...
Gaia Smart Cities, an Indian start-up pioneering Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities solutions have entered into an agreement with Stream Technologies to collaborate roll-out Smart City networks across India. Under the pact, Stream's 'IoT-X' Connectivity...
At Mobile World Congress Barcelona hundreds of companies showed off new smart city technologies, some that are just in the start-up phase while others are being implemented in select cities. One concept further along in deployment is a smart parking meter made by...
IBM and Cisco are the top two Smart City technology suppliers — the two companies have held the no. 1 and no. 2 places on the list since 2013 — according to Navigant Research’s Leaderboard Report. Microsoft, Siemens and Hitachi round out the top five, reports have...
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says it is important to use technology for driving innovation to make infrastructure ‘smart’ at the city and national levels. He predicts that cities that embrace smart technology, including Internet of Things-boosted infrastructure and...
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, Smart City technologies were on display at a scale that was bigger than ever -- and more advanced. AT&T and a host of smaller companies worked with the MWC's organiser, GSMA, to pull together dozens of Internet...
Experts says that Smart Cities will provide one of the most intriguing and innovative applications for the internet of things (IoT) that will enable offering of untold benefits for governments and citizens enhancing quality of life, security and sustainability. At the...
Smart technologies are not the monopoly of mature economies where they already have sound fundamentals, but also poor countries struggling to scale up their own innovations for local needs. Among these innovations are the potentially important home-grown technologies...
Smart Cities are founded by integrating 'intelligent' electronic devices into local governance systems in order to find solutions to city-wide problems, improving daily living and managing resources more efficiently. The ability of connected devices to link with city...
Many tech analysts say that Smart City is not only about sensors but it is more on big data. What will make a city actually become smart is the integration and analysis of data from otherwise potentially disparate initiatives. If the goal is integrated public, private...
Cities around the world, including India where the first batch of Smart Cities has been announced, have to start working on strategies to deliver improved services, traffic management and to tackle environmental challenges. Developing technologies and systems to...
As sensor technologies have become cheaper and analytics software has become more detailed, cites around the world are looking to Smart City projects that can help them update waste and water management, energy, transportation, and host of other systems. Smart Cities...
India-born Archana Vamulapalli has been appointed as the Chief Technology Officer of the District of Columbia (DC) by Mayor Muriel Elizabeth Bowser . The announcement was accompanied by reiteration of the mayor’s commitment to Open Data push. In fact, the Office of...
To manage the city's infrastructure centrally, Barcelona's council and supercomputing centre, with Cisco and other technology partners, have just completed an innovative proof-of-concept platform. One could spot on the city thoroughfares grey cabinets housing a range...
London has joined other European cities in a $27million programme to test smart technologies that can improve the lives of citizens. The Smart Cities and Communities Lighthouse initiative will see London, Milan, Lisbon, Warsaw, Bordeaux and Burgas undertake a variety...
UK-based Telensa, which develops Smart City solutions, has emerged as the domestic leader in smart street lighting, as local governments seek ways to reduce energy consumption. The outward looking company has sold its technology in eight countries including in China,...
Electricity is the major source that will power Smart Cities. It drives technological innovations that make cities smarter. It also ensures sufficient fresh water supplies, disposal of sewerage, facilitates travel from one point to another efficiently, ensures safety...
Israel-based Mobileye, which provides driver-assistance systems for 90 per cent of the world’s automakers, will equip buses with computer vision-powered cameras and software which will not only alerts drivers seconds before an anticipated accident but also identifies...
UK-based Cambridge Broadband Networks Limited (CBNL )has developed a new intelligent transport system (ITS) to enhance Smart City capabilities. It is being implemented in Rzeszow – the largest city in south-eastern Poland. CBNL is the market leader in...
Billion Electric, a leading networking and energy management solutions provider, has become strategic partners of numerous LED streetlight vendors to deploy its Smart Streetlight Control Solution (LCMS) for a city-wide street light infrastructure project. This will...
Black & Veatch, a company that offers engineering and construction services with smart technology and data analytics expertise, to help selected US cities develop and deploy Smart City programmes. It will collaborate with Envision America, which is a programme...
Cisco, Deloitte, Ericsson, GE, IBM and Qualcomm have signed up for AT&T Smart City Alliance, which will work with Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas cities on projects to create M2M (machine-to-machine) applications and services for local authorities. The alliance will...
In line with the government’s Digital India initiative, Ericsson India has set up a new division, Industry and Society, to focus on – utility, transport and public safety and Smart City. The company has also signed an agreement with Sterlite Technologies, a leading...
Experts suggest that Smart Cities in India should adopt appropriate technologies that are smaller in scale rather than go for large-scale technologies from big corporate players. Appropriate technologies can evolve with new innovations at minimum cost. "This means...