smart cities, Tag

What happens when our smart toaster and smart fridge tech is scaled up to create entire smart cities – and what are the limits to this expansion?

The energy used in our digital consumption is set to have a bigger impact on global warming than the entire aviation industry

Panasonic is just about everywhere you look these days, from car batteries to airplanes, and now the company is building one of their most ambitious projects yet: an entire smart city...

When it finally opens in September, the complex will have the latest energy efficiency technology – but will it be worth the $2.3bn spent?

 Humans, especially Americans, are kind of slobs. We mess up the Earth by throwing out about 4.5 pounds of garbage per person on average every day. Two-thirds of that waste could be composted, but isn’t. And half...

As cities expand and trees are sacrificed for housing and infrastructure, the cost of losing green spaces grows

New research has shown the aged care provider Warrigal that sustainable design affects residents’ wellbeing, as well as its bottom line

A Cambridge-based tech firm is pioneering apps to let you park more easily, tell local councils when to grit or even light up particular roads

Advances in technology are quickly paving the way for smart cities. A smart city is an urban center that harnesses technologies, such as IT, to improve the quality of life of residents, manage available resources such as...

Two Pittsburgh artists are encouraging cities around the world to install public art structures designed to generate power while educating viewers about renewable energy

Los Angeles has more streetlights than any other U.S. city, and a massive retrofit in 2013 replaced a phenomenal 141,089 of those bulbs with LEDs, all keeping the streets brighter and safer while improving on the municipality's...

Philips Lighting has announced that they have been selected to conduct a massive overhaul of over 5,000 streetlights in Poland's historic "floating garden" city of Szczecin...

A worldwide network of objects already helps businesses to control energy use, but now there’s money to be made by bringing them together

What will the smart city of tomorrow look like? Industry Perspectives: Creating Smart and Sustainable Cities is a new report and infographic published by the McGraw Hill Financial Global Institute and Autodesk that summarizes...

Circling, block after block, looking for a parking spot is a fact of life for urban drivers everywhere — but it doesn’t have to be. Smart parking startup Streetline has produced the Parker mobile app that will save...