Smart Cities

• [New] Orange and technology company Smartkey, are partnering to deliver blockchain technology that will manage access control, smart bikes, utilities and other elements of smart cities. / Capacity Media
• [New] Orange BIoT SIM by SmartKey will roll out in cities in Poland where Smartkey is headquartered and integrated with city-wide infrastructure such as smart bikes, heating and water systems. / Medium
• [New] The global market for smart cities is expected to attract $2.5 trillion in investments by 2025. / Cox BLUE
• [New] Smart city infrastructure could reduce fatalities by 8-10%, accelerate emergency response times by 20-35%, shave the average commute time by 15-20%, and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 10-15%, among other positive outcomes. / aeris
• [New] In the coming years, we can expect not only a proliferation of smart cities and communities, but new technologies and use cases being used to address common societal problems. / CSIMagazine
• [New] Building on the early momentum, smart cities are expected to become increasingly prevalent with the global smart city industry expected to double from $410.8 billion in 2020 to $820.7 billion by 2025. / CSIMagazine
• [New] Petersburg Polytechnic University developed the methodology for assessing cyber risks in intelligent systems of a Smart City. / Tech Xplore
• [New] If cities in 21 emerging markets studied by IFC prioritize climate-smart growth in their recovery plans, they stand to gain as much as $7 trillion in investments and could create 144 million new jobs by 2030. / World Bank Blogs
• [New] In Kenya, the objective of the Climate Smart Agriculture Project is to increase agricultural productivity and build resilience to climate-change risks in smallholder farming and pastoral communities. / World Bank
• DelBene cites statistics that city governments around the world are expected to spend US$ 41 trillion over the next 20 years on smart infrastructure solutions and that every dollar invested in government technology saves nearly US$4. / Cities Today - Connecting the world's urban leaders
• The thematic session Partnership for Smart and Resilient Green Cities will advance solutions to mobilize e-mobility investment in Latin America and share replication opportunities for Africa and Asia. / Partnering for Green Growth
• Building on Abu Dhabi's smart infrastructure and digital transformation, AWS's investment will further enable innovators and companies with globally-relevant solutions to realize new opportunities in the UAE and beyond. / Business Wire
• While the overall expenditure on smart city development is expected to reach $152 billion by the end of the upcoming year, huge growth is expected from some of the most innovative technologies known to us. / Gulf News
• Real-life use cases will showcase how FIWARE Foundation members, using Open Source and open standards, are implementing Smart Cities faster and more efficiently, with less disruption to city operations. / FIWARE
• The future of infrastructure, in the wake of the global epidemic, will require new standards for interior air quality, smart building technology and other environmental risk management protocols. / South Africa
• According to data presented by AksjeBloggen.com, smart city startups worldwide are expected to generate $110.7bn in revenue by 2025, a trifold increase in five years. / Tech Digest
• ADB will support needed infrastructure such as smart and resilient power grids and energy battery storage to ensure integration of increasing share of renewable energy sources. / Asian Development Bank
• Xilinx announced its first foray into the system-on-module market with the unveiling of the Kria portfolio of adaptive SoMs, the first of which will be targeted at helping customers speed up the development of vision AI applications in smart factories and smart cities. / FierceElectronics
• Manufacturing, logistics, safety, smart buildings, and others are using the IoT at an accelerating rate as indicated by the IoT device market, which is on the rise and poised to reach $1.4 trillion by 2027. / IoT Business News
• Smart cities are an attractive target for threats, the GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre has warned in a new set of guidance for leaders of data-driven places. / PlaceTech
• Building the Energy Grid of the Future Intel is helping build a new ecosystem for energy generation, distribution, and consumption - one where centralized carbon-based generation will be retired and replaced with decentralized, smart grids of cleaner renewable energy. / Intel Corporation
• Implementing a smart city data platform with smart energy and mobility solutions in the top 80 EU cities could result in energy savings equivalent to roughly one third of the total electricity usage of Ireland. / www.euractiv.com
• The NCSC argues that since smart cities rely on moving, processing, and storing sensitive data, and controlling critical operational technology, it makes them an attractive target for threat actors. / TechRadar

Last updated: 13 June 2021