Tag: smart cities

• Smart City Era Promises Big Improvement for Urban Ecosystems Connected technology is ushering in a new era of “Smart Cities”, which promises to improve the quality of life for billions of people around the world. Smart cities — which are using technology to make urban areas safer, more efficient, and more livable — represent the transformative power of the Internet of Things. Now, as the new 5G wireless standard...
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• The Path to the Enlightened City: Smart Streetlamps For a glimpse of the future, look at the cities of today. The vast majority of economic activity, innovation, and energy consumption already happens in urban areas, leading 77 million people to relocate from rural to urban areas every year. The number of megacities (containing more than 10 million people) has doubled over the past two decades, with the developing...
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• Why Cities Need to “Get Smart” About Pollution When we think about protecting the environment, we often think of faraway issues like melting ice caps or dwindling rainforests. The reality, however, is much closer to home. The World Health Organization estimates that 92 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have access to clean air. This is more than a health problem. The World Bank estimates that in 2013...
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• Disruption at the Edge: IoT Transforming Energy Grids Digital disruption is here to stay. Much like the electronic revolution that led to PCs, mobile phones and smart devices, energy grids are on the verge of a major change. Consider the network of power plants, utilities and power lines comprising energy grids, for a moment. What you effectively have is the largest machine in the world — one that...
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• Smart Building Trends for 2017 Note: This blog post originally appeared on AutomatedBuildings.com. Smart city tech deployments are expected to increase in the next year and of them significantly; the biggest one will be commercial-smart buildings. Connected building solutions, whether it’s environmental controls, communications interfaces, video surveillance, or energy conservation, can deliver cost savings and efficiency gains when building automation can be achieved. With impending...
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• The Future Looks Bright: GE & Intel Ignite Industrial Internet Innovation Like many people in Silicon Valley, I am passionate about the application of technology toward the environment, human productivity, healthcare and safety. Before arriving at Intel, I spent time at General Electric as the chief operating officer for GE Digital and have enjoyed continuing the collaboration that we began years ago. During my discussion on stage with GE Chief Digital...
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• Smarter Cities and Cleaner Air: A Quick Guide to Intel IoT Environmental Monitoring Solutions at IOTSWC IoT represents a tremendous opportunity to shape the future and improve every life on this planet. I have spent close to two decades in Embedded, Mobile and IoT. What is clearly different about the current wave is the understanding that partnerships are fundamental to the delivery of end to end solutions. In my role as GM for IoT New Market...
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• Intel to Reveal Breakthrough in Smart and Connected Technology at IoT Solutions World Congress Next week at IoT Solutions World Congress (October 25-27) in Barcelona, the leading global event for industrial IoT, Intel will be unveiling IoT solutions designed to support the next wave of innovation, helping connected entities become more responsive, efficient, and aware. Intel’s latest development will enable high scale machines and systems to greatly expand capabilities in the most challenging of...
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• Why Asia is Vital to the Future of IoT The Intel Internet of Things (IoT) is showing its transformative potential all around the world.  Recently I was in Japan, where we brought together industry partners from across Asia to share and showcase the latest in IoT technology and solutions. We also showcased the analytics insights generated by all that technology. IoT is entering a ‘2.0’ era in which, with...
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• Intel IoT Gateway Unleashes Potential of Internet of Things The Internet of Things (IoT) is tipped to be at least as disruptive as the Internet itself, and it’s already proving its worth in many ways. In fact, IoT is rapidly expanding as key technologies mature, breaking down the barriers to implementing innovative applications. Intel IoT is providing organizations with actionable insights based on data from an increasing range of...
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