There is a lot happening in the world of smart cities right now. In this article, we explore smart city examples from around the world to see how leaders in Athens, Greece, Chennai, India, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Canterbury-Bankstown, Australia, and Prague, Czech Republic are solving city problems with technology and innovation. Smart City Examples #1: …
European cities are taking several approaches to technology and innovation in order to become smart cities of the future. Analyzing the current case studies, one can start to see what does and doesn’t work when scaling pet projects and small pilots into larger solutions. Here are some insights. Biggest Challenges with Scaling Although smart city …
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The Smart Cities Innovation Accelerator at Melbourne included a Sustainability and Environment Panel that was deliberately vague in scope. Sustainability is a huge area for smart cities, and although a particular topic could have been chosen, it is also valuable to go into the discussion without bias. What does sustainability mean to each city? What …
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Cities today are having to deal with the issue of adding technology to an already-built environment, requiring city leaders to plan around and work with the existing infrastructure and layout of the city. At the Smart Cities Innovation Accelerator at Melbourne, the head of the City Lab team in Melbourne, and representatives from Estrella Group …
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