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Smart Guide to Utopia by @lecool - #urban initiatives for better cities.
What makes our cities work best, and how can we make them better? To answer these questions, the team at Barcelona-based publishing company Le Cool teamed up with automotive company smart to create a new type of guidebook - one that celebrates the initiatives that have made a positive impact on our urban environment. It's fun reading about some of these... 
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Big data, 3D printing, activity streams, Internet TV, Near Field Communication (NFC) payment, cloud computing and the Internet of Things are some of the fastest-moving technologies identified in Gartner Inc.'s 2012 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies.
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New York City's new Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne said New York City is trying to turn the city's government into a platform that enables developers and individuals to take data about life in the metropolis and use it to create apps, services...
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European Commission - Technology and innovation in Europe...
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Smart Grid - A tour of five smart energy projects with big potential, from Arizona, to Massachusetts and Indiana, to the UK and on to Vietnam...
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In the digital age, cities are finding that technology can help solve problems more quickly, improving urban infrastructure overall.
One of the biggest advancements in this area is smart grid technology. In simple terms, the smart grid is an advanced type of power grid, which is the system used to distribute electrical power throughout a certain region. A smart grid is different, however, in that it actually allows consumers to participate in the distribution of energy, rather than just passively utilizing energy resources.
“When we’re talking about the smart grid, the focus is on information -– data -– and the new interaction, engagement and informed decision-making that data enables, as opposed to the technology itself,” says Michael Valocchi, vice president of global business services at IBM, one of the leading multinational technology and consulting corporations. IBM operates some of the most complex smart grid implementations in the world.
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Machine-to-machine communication, a stream of consciousness based on semiconductors, is poised to reinvigorate the mobile industry.
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Scott Jensen of frog says that as the Internet of Things (or IoT) gains attention, he's had to find a way to describe it simply, according to device category. The three broad physical categories he's devised are Bears, Bats, and Bees. The metaphors are interesting, and play out in his blog post here.
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via @timoreilly http://t.co/JaSey7sN - Excellent, thought-provoking piece @rachelchalmers Charlie Stross nails the Internet of Things...
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Machina Research predicts what will happen in the world of M2M in 2012. They intend to attibute a score to these forecasts and provide another set of ten for the next edition of Mobile World Congress, in 2013.
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TED Talks Massimo Banzi helped invent the Arduino, a tiny, easy-to-use open-source microcontroller that's inspired thousands of people around the world to make the coolest things they can imagine -- from toys to satellite gear. Via Hassan Ragab, Mohammad Abdelkhalek
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From Smart Connected Communities Institute, an image-rich e-book featuring interviews with city leaders in 10 cities across the globe (bonus video content includes information on 5 additional cities). San Francisco is featured.
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Standards bodies launch oneM2M service layer for IoT ( Networking ) A consortium of ICT standards development bodies has set up a new global organisation to ensure the efficient deployment of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications systems.
The consortium is made up of seven standards development bodies, including ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TIA, TTA, and TTC. All of these organisations are working to develop technical specifications and reports to ensure M2M devices can successfully communicate on a global scale.
M2M is the technology behind the Internet of Things that could enable smart cities of the future. It allows electronic devices to communicate with one another via SIM cards that can connect to wireless sensors and the mobile internet for management and monitoring, and to provide services.
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Smart Cities Market (2011 - 2016) - Projects, Advanced Technologies, Adoptions and Transformations - Worldwide Market Report by Research & Markets (May 2012)
Rapid urbanization of cities is posing infrastructural challenges to governments and municipalities, globally. The smart cities market is expected to have exponential demand in the upcoming future. This demand is opening a segmented market for smart cities.
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In creating Smart Cities, technology vendors, local authorities and city communities will all work together. The former have the ability to deliver the robust, scalable, secure infrastructures required to provide and protect information about cities and individual citizens; the latter have the ability to use those platforms to create local innovations in business and service delivery.
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The term “innovation” is quickly approaching buzz-word status, taking on the likes of “digital business,” “X-as-a-service,” “social,” and “I-anything” as this decade’s most sought-after phrase for the en vogue tech-minded executive.
Gregg Garrett of CGS Advisors talks about the building blocks for innovation, and what it takes to collaborate in the context of our 21st century connected world.
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The evolving world: In 1900 there were 12 cities over 1 million people; now there are over 500 http://t.co/mwDtkvii #infographic...
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Technology alone is not enough to make cities smart. Unless policymakers, city managers, heads of departments and city CIOs get the fundamentals right, technology is mostly irrelevant, according to Andrea di Maio, of Gartner Research.
He says that what really matters is how different sectors (not just government) cooperate and exchange meaningful information. Cooperation requires solid governance and a roadmap that is respectful of (1) the different and potential diverging business objectives and timeframes of different stakeholders involved; and (2) the inevitable resource constraints that affect most urban areas.
Many people still associate smart cities with environmental sustainability and carbon footprint reduction, but the main challenge going forward is financial sustainability and the ability to deal with an increasingly turbulent and uncertain future.
[review and curation by Judy Curtis - SIPR]
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Union Pacific Delivers Internet Of Things Reality Check by Chris Murphy - InformationWeek
Union Pacific, the nation's largest railroad company, is a choice place to assess the gap between the dream and the reality of what's commonly called the "Internet of things." Like a lot of technology movements, the Internet of things is easy to describe but hard to execute. It means putting sensors on all manner of machines to collect data, linking them over wired and wireless networks, and then applying data analytics to assess when a train's wheel needs replacing, a power plant needs fixing, a soybean field needs watering, or a patient needs reviving.
CIO Lynden Tennison would love to someday get rid of all of those wayside sensors and instead put tiny sensors, called motes, directly on the wheels, bearings, door locks, and more, and collect the data wirelessly. That way, UP could predict weeks out when most repairs are needed and do them when a train is between deliveries and at a major hub.
But there's a long list of obstacles to achieving this dream network: Wireless coverage isn't everywhere. Sensors are too expensive. Unlimited data can't be instantly analyzed, even by today's computers. Algorithms can't replace human judgment. Location data is incomplete. Batteries are too short-lived. "Those are all things that will come," Tennison says. Until then, he and his team of 2,000 IT pros keep pushing today's technology to make UP a smarter railroad, testing the limits of the Internet of things as they go.
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Smart city solutions involve the use of sensors and real-time data to enable city staff to monitor key metrics and modify systems to improve performance. To Boyd Cohen, the Smart Cities idea is complementary to Eric Ries' concept of the Lean Startup. Lean startup principles suggest that innovators develop a hypothesis about likely reactions to a minimum viable product (MVP) and be prepared to rigorously measure the results, and iterate as often as necessary.
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Fast Company Co.Exist: A Real Internet of Things for the Developing World (and Burning Man) Every year, Singularity University graduates generate attractive visions of a better future, where people use 3-D printing in zero gravity, mine waste for precious metals and so on...
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The Internet of Things continues to expand its reach. Postscape has compiled a list of 100 people influencing the topic on a daily basis whether through their evangelizing, standardizing or through their own companies.
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The European Commission has announced a new €365 million a year innovation partnership scheme aimed at boosting the development of ‘smart’ technologies in cities, EU officials told the press on Tuesday (10 July). (RT @BiljanaGligoric: Brussels unveils...
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Do you know how many greenhouse gas emissions your city is generating right this very minute?
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