Start-up aids Indonesia’s smart city goals
Lacak Cipta Aktual, an Indonesian IoT start-up, is supporting the government’s 100 Smart Cities Movement by making it easy and cost-effective for Indonesian cities to adopt IoT across various [...]
Lilee to power self-driving bus service in Taiwan
California-based Lilee Systems has received a permit for self-driving bus commercial services on two designated bus lines in Tainan, Taiwan. The self-driving fleet, subsidised by the Ministry of Transportation, [...]
New York lays out IoT strategy
The city of New York has published an IoT strategy document covering principles, technology basics, applications in various sectors and recommendations for a healthy IoT ecosystem. The strategy describes [...]
Baidu to build 5G intelligent driving project in Chengdu
Chinese internet giant Baidu has won a bid to construct a 5G intelligent driving project in Chengdu in a tender worth RMB105m. The first project of its kind on [...]
Axon and Skydio provide drones for first responders
Arizona-based connected public safety technology company Axon and US drone maker Skydio are partnering to provide autonomous drones for law enforcement and emergency responders. Via the Axon Air unmanned [...]
Digital twins stop cities under-reporting emissions, says Cityzenith
Digital twins can prevent US cities under-reporting their carbon emissions, according to Chicago-based Cityzenith. This follows a report in Nature Communications, the journal for research across the natural sciences, [...]
Autonomy Institute pilot enables smart cities
The Autonomy Institute has launched an intelligent infrastructure pilot with Texas Military Department to enable autonomous vehicles, smart cities and connected things. The Autonomy Institute is a cooperative research [...]
G42 and Serco integrate public services in UAE
Serco Middle East has signed a memorandum of understanding with UAE-based AI company G42 to transform and deliver integrated public services across the region. Artificial intelligence and cloud computing [...]
Espoo pilots Trombia autonomous street sweeper
The first commercial pilot of the autonomous Trombia Free street sweeper has started in the city of Espoo in Finland. A bicycle path in Espoo is being cleaned fully [...]
Microsoft joins IMC to accelerate IoT adoption
Microsoft has joined the IoT M2M Council (IMC), a trade group that fosters a community of 25,000 qualified IoT users. The Microsoft Azure IoT Engineering group will use the [...]
FirstNet gives green light to first responders for BeamFirst
First responders can now access BeamFirst from California-based BeamLive via the FirstNet app catalogue. BeamFirst delivers situational awareness and first responder communication and safety through near real-time IoT content [...]
NEC wins project to turn Indian city smart
Japanese technology giant NEC has won a contract to help turn Thiruvananthapuram in India into a smart city. Thiruvananthapuram is among the 100 smart cities selected in the third [...]
