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Orlando's journey to accelerate sustainability and resilience

GreenBiz

If that wasn’t enough, in December, the city also published its first smart city master plan, Future-Ready Orlando , which works to combine some of my work in sustainability and resilience with technology to position Orlando to be a leading experimental prototype city of the 21st century.

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Smart water meters to be installed in Nicosia

Smart Energy International

As part of its Smart Nicosia smart city initiative, the historical capital of Cyprus has started a smart water meter rollout. Under the slogan of ‘Put water in the groove’, the Nicosia Municipality and Nicosia Water Board are partnering in what will be a 150,000 city-wide smart water meter rollout.

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Curitiba Is Evolving But Remains a Model for Urban Sustainability

The City Fix

I recently had the pleasure of re-visiting Curitiba, Brazil, thanks to an invitation from the Smart Cities Expo. I made my first pilgrimage in 2000, when Bogotá was implementing its bus rapid transit system, Transmilenio, and returned twice after that. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Wi-SUN FAN adopted for India’s smart meter RF communications

Smart Energy International

Under the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme, which was introduced in July 2021, a nationwide rollout of more than 250 million smart meters is currently underway, while also large-scale smart city development is underway with the government having allocated support towards the development of 100 smart cities in the country.

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City of San Diego Launches Inclusive Connected Communities Roadmap for Smart City Projects

CleanTech San Diego

The City of San Diego is implementing a new smart city strategy that could bring smart city technologies to underserved areas of the city. Those technologies can then be scaled out to other areas of San Diego as part of a larger smart city plan ensuring equity across communities of all income levels.

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Skills partnership for digitalisation in Europe’s energy sector

Smart Energy International

EIT InnoEnergy, Schneider Electric partnership EIT InnoEnergy and Schneider Electric have entered into a partnership in which the latter will participate in masters programmes in smart electrical networks and systems and smart cities.

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Creative Destruction: the COVID-19 Economic Crisis is Accelerating the Demise of the Fossils

Mr. Sustainability

We are now at the start of the sixth great wave, driven by renewable energy combined with electromobility and smart-city technology. Smart-city Technology Smart-city technology involves using sensors, machine learning, artificial intelligence, block-chain and the “internet of things” to improve infrastructure efficiency.