In May 2020, the smart city concept appeared to have been dead and buried when Sidewalk Labs ended its collaboration with the City of Toronto to create Quayside, a data-infused, sustainability-focused ...

Both emerging-market and existing cities are opening up opportunities for Smart City initiatives. Each has different priorities and needs, although most city officials now are focused on the low ...

In a world rapidly embracing automation, sustainability, and interconnected systems, the real breakthroughs are often found ...

Digital twins, combined with edge AI, have proven capable of reducing the operational expenditure of smart buildings.

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Sensors vary widely and can monitor and detect a variety of sources, such as light, heat, motion, moisture, and pressure. Typical sensors used in smart cities can sense temperature, proximity, ...

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public ...

Imagine a building that immediately detects when a piece of equipment may need repair, or a building that automatically dims the lights when it’s sunny outside. Now imagine a building that uses ...

Robotic butlers are zooming around hotel lobbies, bathroom mirrors are transforming into interactive touchscreens, and guests are opening their doors and controlling the lights/temperature in their ...

It’s virtually impossible to imagine a city without conjuring an image of its skyline, or at the very least, a vista of the buildings that populate it. Likewise, in smart cities, smart buildings play ...

Smart spaces, also known as "connected places," are physical locations equipped with networked sensors that provide owners, occupants, and administrators with more and better information about the ...