Qualcomm Technologies has announced the launch of a smart cities program, aimed at providing a central directory of smart cities solutions based on Qualcomm technology. The Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program will be a one-stop shop for governments, municipalities, cities, and enterprises to choose their providers from, according to the tech giant. "Program members represent a breadth of hardware and software providers, cloud solution providers, system integrators, design and manufacturing companies, as well as companies offering end-to-end solutions with smart cities in mind," Qualcomm explained. "By providing business matchmaking between those searching for smart city solutions and our member companies who have proven expertise and commercially deployed solutions based on Qualcomm Technologies' intelligent connectivity and edge computing products, the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program hopes to accelerate the transformation of smart urban infrastructure and services." … [Read more...] about Qualcomm announces smart cities accelerator program
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IEEE Smart Cities Initiative Works to Help More Municipalities Modernize
Advertisement Editor’s Picks MWC Barcelona 2019: The Biggest Changes That 5G Will Bring to the IoT Will Be Invisible Casablanca and Kansas City are IEEE’s Newest Smart Cities THE INSTITUTEThere are now hundreds of cities—large and small—that are working to improve their livability by using resilient communication networks, data analytics, sensors, and other technologies. Others want to smarten up but just don’t know how to go about it. IEEE’s Smart Cities Initiative wants to help them. The multidisciplinary effort, which launched in 2013, provides city leaders and others with credible, unbiased technical information and educational content developed by IEEE global experts. The organization’s Communications, Control Systems, Industry Applications, Power & Energy, and Systems, Man, and Cybernetics societies as well as the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation provide technical expertise. “We bring together … [Read more...] about IEEE Smart Cities Initiative Works to Help More Municipalities Modernize
SenSen Bundles Smart City Functions Into GeminEye App
Smart city monitoring functions typically take a lot of expensive hardware and are limited to the areas where that hardware is set up, but SenSen is changing the game with a new smartphone app called GeminEye that has the goal of allowing those functions to happen anywhere a city employee, or even a dutiful citizen, has a smartphone handy. The app is currently available for registration on SenSen's website, with an unspecified official launch date. The app is going to be a bit threadbare on features when it first launches. Right now, it's capable of performing illegal dumping monitoring in real time, and carrying out common parking enforcement tasks. These two things are important for any bustling smart city, of course, but more features are on the way in the near future. According to SenSen's site, the company is planning to add in parking guidance for busy streets, asset mapping and management to keep track of city funds and projects, warehouse stock tracking, time-lapse imaging, and … [Read more...] about SenSen Bundles Smart City Functions Into GeminEye App
Smart Cities: Trends to expect in 2019
From Alphabet Lab’s high-tech transformation of Toronto’s waterfront, to Bristol’s award-winning citywide communications network, the number and scope of smart city projects across the world is on the rise, with analysts forecasting the market will be worth more than $2.5 trillion by 2025.The fundamental objective of any smart community is to enrich the lives of residents and make local governments more efficient in responding to their citizens’ needs. From security to convenience to revenue generation, smart city applications will change the way cities operate and the way we live and work. But it all starts with connectivity – a smart city’s residents, machines, vehicles, systems and applications must be connected, and in most cases that involves fibre infrastructure. There are three key trends that will impact smart cities in 2019. Let’s take a look.Longer-term planningCompanies have traditionally built out specific, siloed applications such … [Read more...] about Smart Cities: Trends to expect in 2019
In smart cities 5G won’t just lessen congestion, it could save lives too
If you’ve been following the smart city trends, it won’t surprise you to hear that next-generation 5G wireless service will make smart cities more intelligent. “I don’t think 5G needs much of a push,” Nakul Duggal, a senior VP of product management at Qualcomm, told Digital Trends. To Duggal, the advantages are obvious, and Qualcomm sees this as the year of 5G; more than two-dozen 5G-compatible smartphones expected to hit the market by the end of the year will Qualcomm’s chipset. There are a variety of benefits of 5G, the foremost of which is speed. Qualcomm has demonstrated peak download times of around 4.5 gigabits per second and average data transmission speeds of about 1.4 gigabits per second. That’s quick enough to download a two-hour movie in about 17 seconds, versus about 6 minutes for a current 4G connection. In other words, new 5G phones will be about 1,000 times faster than the phone currently in your pocket. But it’s not just … [Read more...] about In smart cities 5G won’t just lessen congestion, it could save lives too