This mural is an example of how a smart city partners with outside agencies to encourage public art. Credit: City of Bridgeport The term “smart city” was coined in the mid-2000s to describe an ...

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 ...

Nearly a decade into the “smart city” movement, observers from planning, transportation and privacy arenas are turning a critical eye to technology in search of a problem to solve. Too often, smart ...

Smart cities represent the convergence of urbanization, digital transformation, and sustainability goals through integrated technological frameworks. As urban centers face unprecedented population ...

New York City leverages technology’s potential on a daily basis to enhance opportunity, public safety, and government efficiency for more than 8 million New Yorkers across the five boroughs. So far ...

Some IoT technologies are already being used by many of us, and we often are not even aware of them. Here we will explain what the Internet of Things consists of and what are its advantages and risks.

Smart cities have evolved beyond basic connectivity, and the city of Istres is looking to deploy an advanced networking infrastructure to support next-generation technology like artificial ...

Cities, school districts and other public-sector organizations are prioritizing sustainability and climate policies, turning to smart city tech to help them achieve their goals. "From our experience, ...

Smart cities are transforming governments from a series of siloed organizations to collaborative, integrated services. It’s not a moment too soon, either; according to the United Nations, ...

CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems) concept abstract image, various information upload to cloud and analytical data download to real world, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things As we continue to move forward ...

The Quayside development on Toronto’s waterfront was supposed to be the shining example of a tech-optimized smart city, an urban environment reinvented “from the internet up,” as it was described by ...