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Boyd Cohen in Fast Company's Co.Exist defines Smart Cities as a broad, integrated approach to improving the efficiency of city operations, the quality of life for its citizens, and growing the local economy.
He has created a Smart Cities wheel graphic that lays out indicators and categories of a smart cities strategy. 
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Intel's Wi-Fi-on-a-chip technology moves us several steps closer to "the Internet of Things," where everything from your toaster to your garage door opener is on a network. Intel is also unveiling a new wireless standard to go with the chip: WiGig, which consolidates a number of proprietary wireless technologies under one umbrella to deliver bandwidth over 5 gigabytes per second. And for good measure, Intel is also developing a vast Cloud Radio Access Network, which will allow Intel-based servers to act as wireless providers, giving faster service than today’s hubs with fewer dropped connections. Via Gary Hayes
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The development of 'Smart Cities' will be characterized by the integration of sustainability planning and design, and research and development of feedback tools and information systems to assist in self-analyses of energy and water ...
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Sustainable Cities Canada is an open platform to focus on the sustainability and infrastructure issues facing Canada.
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Infographic created for Orange: from conception to research to design, it tells a lovely story about how machine chatter is growing louder and louder. All around us M2M is making life more bearable.
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Neul Raises $5M To Connect The Internet Of Things Using TV White SpaceTechCrunchUK-based Neul today announced a new $5 million investment from Mistui & Co. Ltd. Via Richard Kastelein
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The Smart+Connected Communities Institute has published the e-book Smart Cities Exposé: 10 Cities in Transition 2012. Via a series of conversations with key experts, the book highlights the efforts of ten cities with different profiles which try to reinvent themselves through the use of ICT. The cities examined are: Barcelona, Spain Boston, Massachusetts, USA Busan, South Korea Oulu, Finland Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Spain San Francisco, California, USA Singapore, Singapore South Bend, Indiana, USA Stockholm, Sweden
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Just wait til you see the PPPlanter on a street corner near you.
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For the Internet of Things to proliferate, here's what is needed: - A way to uniquely identify all these devices. - Smart, low power, low cost sensors. - Embedded intelligence. - Automation and integration.
We might add that there is a political and social dimension to consider, as well.
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Making IoT a U.S. economic development priority is our best hope to address massive global problems such as energy needs and global warming.
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Derrick Harris of GigaOM thinks that big data techniques might provide an answer. According to physicist Geoffrey West, the world's cities have what one might call a growing problem. As they grow bigger, their problems grow worse, which means it takes an ever-faster pace of innovation to keep things in check.
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Manabu Fukuchi, a senior consultant on infrastructure and energy industries at Nomura Research Institute, said smart cities in Japan are relatively smaller in size than in other countries, especially in fast-rising emerging economies such as China.
"The Japanese smart cities should serve as a 'showcase' for technologies and expertise of domestic companies," he said. "As for Tohoku projects, developers must think how they can benefit local residents, including elderly people, and who will finance the new initiatives."
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Waspmote was used to measure the inertial forces a person suffers when riding a roller coaster thanks to its powerful accelerometer...
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Forbes How Sensor Networks Add to Context" by Shel Israel, who is writing a book with Robert Scoble. The working title is Age of Context: How it will change your work and life.
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Growth doesn’t always translate to quality of life, but technology can help.
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If the "IoT" has such short-term promise (not to mention its long-term transformational impact on every aspect of our society and economy), why does the very term, let alone the examples that are already making it a reality, remain such a mystery?
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Through the Internet, humans have connected the world. People are closer to each other than ever while still remaining apart. The next phase of the the Internet will be about connecting things.
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Wireless Sensor Tags Help You Keep Track of Your Stuff -- Wired
Stuff goes missing. Maybe you misplaced something, or maybe one of the uninvited guests at your last shindig is “borrowing” it. Regardless, now you need it, and you can’t find it. But what if you could tag your possessions and keep tabs on them, like a researcher tracking so many wildebeests in the Serengeti? You can, to a degree. CAO Gadget’s descriptively named Wireless Sensor Tags monitor movement, angle and temperature and send alerts to your iOS or Android device when things go awry — something moving that shouldn’t be (indicating theft or maybe an impending mauling by a puppy); the inside of an ice chest getting too warm, or the door to your liquor cabinet opening when only the kids are at home.
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This article by Pablo Sánchez Chillón (Urban 360º) explores how games can be used for engaging citizens in urban matters.
Technologies must be adaptable to urban environments, and the city must be hackable, changeable and suitable for digital/real participation, loosing –in quite reasonable terms– the the top-down schemes for urban planning and city management.
Our cities are complex ecosystems and citizens - if there is a common understanding for what is citizenry in the digital era- are changing the way our cities look out – and work out – by being smart, adaptive and innovative.
While technologists boast of the potential for smartphone apps and social networks to connect citizens to institutions and services in a urban context, cities are embracing the concept of city as a platform, as hyper-connected environments that harness the network effects, openness and agility of the real-time web. Via Jody_COC
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GigaOM SmartThings' Kickstarter project lets developers hack the real world, by Stacy Higginbotham The Internet of Things should have its own category on Kickstarter, since there's yet another project on the site that hopes to connect your physical and digital worlds.
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Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of 21st century enlightenment, how the idea might help us meet the challenges we face today. Via SustainOurEarth
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The more tools developers have in their toolbox, the more innovation we can expect to see in the M2M (machine-to-machine) marketplace.
Via Cluster #IoT - CITC
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Chicago, Seattle, New York, and San Francisco are now in one place. Data.gov, the federal government’s warehouse for public data, has opened its doors to America’s major cities at cities.data.gov.
"Cities.data.gov represents an example of cities moving beyond doing data just for their city or just for their jurisdiction and starting to share data on a unified platform," said John Walton, San Francisco's CIO.
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