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It has been at least 50 years since examples of what we now call ‘smart cities’ began to appear. In 1974, officials in Los Angeles, California, used IBM mainframe computers to study poverty in the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Urban logistics is at a crossroads, with the last-mile delivery segment facing increasing ...

Municipalities are increasingly incorporating smart city strategies into their development plans. But such projects don’t always include adequate cybersecurity safeguards against their complex, ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Getting a small smart city pilot project to be successful in an innovation district is the easy part. But getting that same project to scale across an entire city — or cities — ...

It’s no longer necessary to gamble on the effect a new development or other change to a cityscape might have on, say, traffic or parking. Good data and a digital twin of the area can help to erase ...

Singapore’s planned eco-smart city Tengah aims to use artificial intelligence to support smart energy management. Fukuoka, Japan, is drawing on sensor data to build models that can help monitor water ...

The World Bank predicts a 70% urban population by 2050, driving the need for smarter cities and systems to run them. Projects in Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Singapore prioritize social and ...

There are over four billion street lights in the world. Almost all of them are high-intensity discharge lights that use mercury vapor or some other toxic substance to create light. All of them require ...