Smart Cities

• [New] By 2024, spending by smart cities and communities will reach $203 billion with focus on areas like public safety, civic engagement and smart city platforms. Hexagon AB
• [New] The smart mobility market will generate 85,000 new U.S. jobs in autonomous vehicles and 7,000 U.S. jobs in smart-road infrastructure by 2028 across engineering, computer-related, and skilled trades occupations. ridc.org
• [New] Saudi Arabia is planning to build a smart city called NEOM by 2030. Embedded Computing Design
• North America is likely to account for the highest size & share of the 5G infrastructure market in the forecast period 2021-2030 owing to the presence of developed infrastructure along with technological advancement further supported by growing automation with the development of smart cities. Yahoo Finance
• AT&T and JBG SMITH are partnering to build a smart city with 5G network infrastructure deployments by 2022 in the city of National Landing. Semiconductor Engineering
• The global smart cities engineering and construction (E & C) services market held a market value of USD 106.64 Billion in 2020 and is forecasted to reach USD 453.07 Billion by the year 2030. Yahoo Sport
• Housing infrastructure development and smart city projects in India and China are expected to drive the demand for smart lighting, safety and security, smart HVAC controls, smart locks, and energy monitoring. Yahoo Finance
• There has been increasing attention paid to the risks posed by the global spread of surveillance systems and smart cities technologies built by Chinese firms using Chinese components. Global Americans
• A smart parking system for city streets or a parking garage built using LoRa today can be connected to a city traffic management system built using NBIoT in 2022, as long as both use open APIs and avoid closed, proprietary solutions including walled garden cloud solutions. IIoT World
• The growing, global coalition of public and private partners will work to avert 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions and improve 1 billion lives by catalyzing an equitable and green Covid-19 recovery and building a climate-smart energy system of the future. The Rockefeller Foundation
• CloudWalk Technology will set up an ASEAN Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center in Guangxi, and work with ecological partners to provide multi-industry applications including smart port, smart city, private computing, trusted cloud and human-machine collaboration platform to the ASEAN region. China Money Network
• Going forward, the Apolong II will fulfil multi-purpose commercialized applications and provide citizens with the ultimate smart transportation experiences by being deployed in public parks, airports, business districts and residential communities in the Huangpu District of Guangzhou. markets.businessinsider.com
• The disruptions of the past year or so have highlighted how important smart cities can be, using technology, data and innovation to deliver solutions to social, environmental and economic challenges. Orange Business Services
• As energy efficiency measures are being taken all over the world, smart homes and smart cities, with energy-efficient devices, are expected to increase. Mordor Intelligence
• The sustainability services will leverage Johnson Controls' decades of experience in energy efficiency performance contracting, along with its OpenBlue smart buildings technology and services, including the recently launched OpenBlue Net Zero Buildings as a Service. Yahoo Finance
• Going forward, the Apolong II will fulfil multipurpose commercialized applications and provide citizens with the ultimate smart transportation experiences by being deployed in public parks, airports, business districts and residential communities in the Huangpu District of Guangzhou. Traffic Technology Today
• Panelists are optimistic about the inroads smart cities will be making in transportation and civic life over the coming decade. Forbes
• Multiple government backed initiatives to strengthen IoT's growth include plan of developing 100 smart city projects, and $100 billion investment in the telecommunications sector by 2022. NASSCOM Community | The Official Community of Indian IT Industry
• JUMPWatts teleoperation and autonomous technology combined with the vision of Luna vision technology will make fleet operations much more cost effective for operators and will make dockless micromobility much more attractive to a smart city. Council.ie
• By 2050, up to 70% of the world's population is expected to live in cities and smart cities have been considered the ideal solution after decades of population growth and unplanned urban sprawl across the globe. FinExtra

Last updated: 19 September 2021