Smart cities are on the horizon, and will be necessary to cope with the growing influx of people into urban centres around the world. A new white paper by ABI Research has analysed the scope for cost ...

If you want to know what's happening with smart cities, then look no further than Seoul. The capital of one of the world's most technologically advanced nations was an early investor in smart ...

While “smart city” may conjure images of flying cars and robot assistants, the reality is somewhat grittier. The United Nations predicts that in 2050, 6.4 billion people – two-thirds of the world’s ...

The concept of a smart city has been around for a long time, but many cities end up providing only isolated services, such as bike-sharing schemes or smart bins. In reality, a truly smart city ...

Cities represent three quarters of energy consumption and 80% of CO2 emissions worldwide, and represent the largest of any environmental policy challenge. Urbanisation is only set to increase, cities ...

The dream of smart cities is bearing fruit in projects around the globe. In fact the global market was valued at $900 billion in 2018 and was projected to grow by 18 per cent between 2019 and 2029, as ...

The proliferation of 'smart' solutions to a deluge of political and economic problems in today's cities may well serve to reinforce urban inequality at a time when new radical alternatives are in ...

The Smart City idea attracts hype and scepticism in dynamic balance; but it's a boring kind of balance. As something of a bystander until now and as an architect and citizen, I will attempt here to ...

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Pradeep Bhardwaj, Senior Strategy Director and Head of Industry ...

Boston is wired with a system called ShotSpotter which uses acoustic sensors to detect and pinpoint the location of gunshots. The city also has 222 sensors to detect biological weapons. Equipment on ...