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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

While Rotterdam’s blue-green grid is still far from completion, it represents an example of how a set of digital sensing technologies can be potentially harnessed to produce a smart city solution to an urban sustainability problem. . We learn from each other how to cope with these so-called smart city projects.”

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Security solutions for smart buildings. – Using analytics to keep the flow in your business

Axis Communications Sustainability Blog

In the quest for improved operations and sustainability metrics, smart buildings are starting to move front and center. Based on the same premise as smart cities, these connected structures both form and become part of a mini-ecosystem, interacting with the people, systems and external elements surrounding them.

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Security solutions for smart buildings. – Using analytics to keep the flow in your business

Axis Communications Sustainability Blog

In the quest for improved operations and sustainability metrics, smart buildings are starting to move front and center. Based on the same premise as smart cities, these connected structures both form and become part of a mini-ecosystem, interacting with the people, systems and external elements surrounding them.

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Security solutions for smart buildings. – Using analytics to keep the flow in your business

Axis Communications Sustainability Blog

In the quest for improved operations and sustainability metrics, smart buildings are starting to move front and center. Based on the same premise as smart cities, these connected structures both form and become part of a mini-ecosystem, interacting with the people, systems and external elements surrounding them.

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Why Smart Cities, Businesses and Homes Will Transform Your Life

Daniel Burrus

However, this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg as smart buildings and even cities increasingly become the norm as leaders and business owners begin to wake-up to the massive savings that technology can deliver through connected sensors and new forms of automation coupled with intelligent energy and facilities management.

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Comment: Massive IoT enables massive opportunities for utilities

Envirotec Magazine

From fleet management to environmental monitoring and smart grid management, to consumer applications including smart watches, smart buildings and, ultimately, entire smart cities. Massive IoT , alias massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC), is already impacting multiple industries.

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Insights 2023: Mario Macri

Sustainability Matters

It is now more important than ever to aim towards building smart cities that are truly sustainable, have cleaner transportation and feature more efficient buildings and infrastructures that serve essential human needs such as homes, water, electricity and connectivity.