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Watch this panel discussion with Sand Technologies OnDemand to discover how AI can bring innovative solutions to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and reliability for utilities providers.

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Discover how this year’s Cities Climate Action Summit puts the spotlight on the switch to clean and renewable energy, and the importance of energy-efficiency.

SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024: experience ‘Tokyo 2050’ todaySponsored by The SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024 Showcase Program Executive Committee

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile 2024 – City of Madrid

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Tune into the latest Urban Exchange podcast, where guests from the city of Buenos Aires City Government and Yale University discuss the links between climate, health and inequity.

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 22 - Digital solutions shaping the urban landscape

This episode of Urban Exchange takes us inside the world of digital financial innovation and how it supports urban resilience, with experts from Cape Town and StateUp.

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The built environment’s Scope 3 emissions conundrum

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Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the exhibitor: Latitudo 40

Latitudo 40 sits at the convergence of satellite imagery analysis and AI and will demonstrate the vital role satellite data has to play in helping cities tackle the challenges of climate change.

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Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 23 - Identifying urban solutions at the intersection of climate, health, and equity

Urban Exchange Podcast

Tune into the latest Urban Exchange podcast, where guests from the city of Buenos Aires City Government and Yale University discuss the links between climate, health and inequity.

Latest Urban Exchange Podcast

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 23 - Identifying urban solutions at the intersection of climate, health, and equity

Urban Exchange Podcast

Tune into the latest Urban Exchange podcast, where guests from the city of Buenos Aires City Government and Yale University discuss the links between climate, health and inequity.

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The latest news on fibre networks in smart city projects across the world.

Companies team to accelerate smart city initiatives in Oman

Companies team to accelerate smart city initiatives in Oman

Fibre networks20 Jan 2025

Oman Broadband Company and ST Engineering’s Urban Solutions will support the digital transformation objectives and strategic ambitions of Oman Vision 2040.

Which countries are leading the copper switch-off?

Which countries are leading the copper switch-off?

Fibre networks17 Jan 2025

A study from FTTH Council Europe shows the progress 27 EU member states – and the UK – are making toward adopting full-fibre broadband infrastructure.

Wireless Broadband Alliance calls for greater collaboration on 6G

Wireless Broadband Alliance calls for greater collaboration on 6G

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It also believes 6G should concentrate on practical verticals, including smart cities, which will benefit most from low-latency, and seamless connectivity.

Wifi and cellular connectivity are top priorities for real-estate

Wifi and cellular connectivity are top priorities for real-estate

Commercial buildings14 Jan 2025

Research reveals that connectivity outranks price and amenities for business leaders, while the demand for smart building technologies is also on the increase.

Consortium seeks to transform Santa Marta into AI-powered smart city

Consortium seeks to transform Santa Marta into AI-powered smart city

AI and Machine Learning09 Jan 2025

By demonstrating the power of AI and IoT to transform urban spaces, Santa Marta aims to serve as a model for future smart city projects across the region.

Japan smart cities market to be worth over $216bn by 2033

Japan smart cities market to be worth over $216bn by 2033

4G and 5G06 Jan 2025

With mounting upgrades to legacy grids and a government-led vision, efficient and inclusive smart city progress continues unabated, says Astute Analytica.

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Swansea Bay City Region hits major full fibre milestone

Fibre networks13 Dec 2024

The full fibre build, delivered by BT via a Welsh Government funded programme, provides improved broadband provision to public sector sites across the region.

London upgrades CCTV network to increase safety

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Citizen security10 Dec 2024

It follows £30m investment in full fibre coverage as part of the Connected London programme, which also included installation of air quality and traffic sensors.

Setting out a roadmap for next-gen metaverse applications

Setting out a roadmap for next-gen metaverse applications

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World Broadband Association is urging countries to establish investment, legislation and deployment plans to enable the migration towards all-fibre broadband.

Jacksonville powers AV operations with 5G private network

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What is ‘Smart City’ and why do we need them?

Smart city is the framework based on Information and Communication technologies that enable the development of sustainable practices to address the urbanisation challenges. Leveraging the technology is one of the foremost pillars of ‘smart cities’ in order to increase efficiencies and improve the quality of resident’s life and the city’s services.

ST Engineering to provide smart city platform for Lusail City

The company will build and operate a smart city platform with citywide network connectivity for the Qatar city using advanced AI and data-driven technologies.

AI used to monitor and optimise Swedish road infrastructure

Computer vision and machine learning specialist, Univrses, will work with the Swedish Transport Administration to digitise and manage roadside infrastructure.

AI tools for city management launched at Bloomberg CityLab

City AI Connect will be a single destination for local government leaders to ideate, develop, and test new uses for generative AI with peers across cities.

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The importance of broadband to socioeconomic development

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Power grid company State Grid Jiangsu turned to a private wireless network when it needed to urgently build a comms ...

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Smart cities at the heart of a digital Middle East

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The promise of smart cities needs a strong network to back it up, writes Jamie Hayes, Mobile Network Operators Director,...

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Podcast: How distributed acoustic sensing can give greater insight into your smart city, with Fotech

Podcast: How distributed acoustic sensing can give greater insight into your smart city, with Fotech

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile 2024 – City of Madrid

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White Paper: A blueprint for using AI to create smarter cities

White Paper: A blueprint for using AI to create smarter cities

This white paper maps the end-to-end journey from data discovery to implementing complex AI models that can provide customised insight. It puts forward a blueprint for cities to use artificial intelligence to become smarter and more liveable by taking an outcomes-focused approach.

White Paper: Building truly sustainable cities

White Paper: Building truly sustainable cities

This white paper covers how connected systems can help cities build sustainability and wellbeing into their indoor and outdoor spaces. We look at the scale of the decarbonisation challenge faced by cities, how cities can use connected technologies to create greener buildings and the vital role of retrofitting. We includes detailed analysis of the energy and cost-savings that energy efficiency programmes can bring in cities.

City data spaces: A guide to building and operationalising data services

City data spaces: A guide to building and operationalising data services

How data spaces are transforming data sharing, and establishing new frameworks to create data services to improve urban services and liveability.

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