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E8ight develops digital twin platform for smart cities

South Korean simulation software company E8ight has developed NDX Pro, a simulation-based digital twin platform that integrates and processes data from a city’s transportation, communications and services. With the [...]

Accenture studies Mauritius OS feasibility

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is working with professional services company Accenture to study the feasibility of a smart city operating system (OS) in Mauritius. This is part [...]

RAD pilot connects traffic cameras over 5G

Israeli telecoms company RAD has won the contract for a pilot project for connecting smart traffic cameras over 5G as part of the country’s smart infrastructure programme. RAD specialises [...]

RTI software secures Varon urban air mobility

Florida-based urban air mobility company Varon Vehicles is integrating a software connectivity framework from Real-Time Innovations (RTI) into its traffic management system (TMS). Californian firm RTI claims to be [...]

Bluesky and Cyclomedia fuel virtual city demand

Aerial mapping company Bluesky is working with Dutch company Cyclomedia to bring together imagery and height data, captured from the air and at street level, to fuel virtual city [...]

Nexar provides free roadwork mapping service

Israeli AI computer vision company Nexar will provide US transit agencies, cities and departments of transportation access to its CityStream service free for three months. CityStream works by detecting, [...]

Cologne to get two-day digital makeover

Next week, more than 100 locations in the German city of Cologne are going to be digitally transformed for 48 hours. This is part of the Digital X conference [...]

Quantela acquires smart lighting firm Cimcon

California-based outcomes-as-a-service firm Quantela has acquired Cimcon Lighting, a specialist in smart lighting and smart city technologies. This acquisition will provide Quantela with coverage and access to streetlight pole [...]

Cisco boost for Weston in Florida

Florida-based R2 Unified Technologies is using Cisco technology to help the city of Weston just north of Miami become one of the premier smart cites in the USA. Located [...]

Siemens acquires Sqills for €550m

Siemens is paying €550m to acquire Dutch firm Sqills, a provider of reservation and ticketing software to public transport operators.   Sqills produces cloud-based inventory management, reservation and ticketing [...]

Moovit and Spin launch smart mobility in European cities

Ford micromobility subsidiary Spin and Moovit, an Intel-owned mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) provider, are bringing smart mobility to cities in three European countries. This partnership helps users find Spin e-scooters in [...]

Ekin smart pole starts first US pilot in Florida

German smart city company Ekin has started its first smart city pilot project in the USA, serving the city of Coral Gables in Florida. Ekin specialises in smart city [...]