Smart cities are key to a better future. By 2030 it is predicted that globally some 125 billion devices will be connected in our cities – monitoring everything from people and traffic movements, to human health, space and energy use, and air quality – all to better manage the efficiency of our urbanizing world. Watch these free films to learn more about smart city design and smart city living from around the world.
Last week Thursday we talked with Miriam Tuerk, the Co-Founder & CEO at Clear Blue Technologies in our free webinar about smart, off-grid technologies.
In this free CleanTechnica webinar, we’ll be talking with Miriam Tuerk about why smart cities, communities and businesses are moving away from expensive utility infrastructure and switching over to clean wireless power solutions for lighting, security, telecom, the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and more.
Smart Cities are more than just sensors ushering you to an available parking space, standby street lights, or drones monitoring air quality. Citizens are the most important component in the smart cities of the future. We need their participation in order to collect data, track movement, share knowledge, and most importantly, resources. All of this is possible in the next few decades, but an important first step is to figure out how to incentivize citizens to get on board.
Smart cities aren’t IoT sensors for everything on every corner all of the time. They aren’t just dumb CCTV cameras everywhere providing post facto blame allocation for crimes and accidents. Sensors are just the start.
Public health and safety requires greater security measures as more and more functions of a smart city are automated and connected. Smart cities offer great promise but will require significant public scrutiny so that individual privacy concerns are balanced with collective economic and social power.
Below is another chapter of our free report Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure: Guidelines for Cities.
Smart city expert Lean Doody says the technology should be a tool to deliver a sustainable city.
As recently as 20 years ago, 83% of the income in United Arab Emirates (UAE) was from the sale of oil, but as the economy grows and expands, the share that oil contributes to the GDP is only 29%. This means that UAE is well-positioned to lead the world in adoption of alternative technologies and urban mobility solutions.
When smart cities play dumb on cyber security the result is a hot mess, so Palo Alto is casting a wary eye on cyber threats while forging ahead with smart, clean, green urban technology.
