Making a city smart is a formidable task but crucial to the evolution of how we will be living in 2030 when 5 billion people will be urban dwellers.
Whatever the cause, a flood swept the city and Smart Union was badly hit.
In the last few months. for example, one city banned smart meters and fielded complaints against smart meter-related towers.
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One way to convert a smart city atheist could be to help cities make smart technology choices based on their consumer identity.
Their project, called the Smart City, had 5, 700 units on 35 acres of land in the Sahberi village.
Sensors, web cams, smartphones all hook into the smart city system.
In another, the smart grid was such a source of contention that the city drew up a smart grid Bill of Rights in response to constituent anger.
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While the other panelists are passionate about their visions of how cities will be connected and made more efficient by mobile devices, Manel proclaims himself to be a smart city atheist .
So converting smart city atheists may be a matter of having more good examples of people working together using state-of-the-art technology to manage logistics and other urban tasks more efficiently, saving time and money for everyone.
We will build on the work that's being done in places like Boulder, Colorado, a community that is on pace to be the world's first Smart Grid city.
We worked together on a project about a city that implemented a smart energy program to improve energy efficiency, deliver benefits to its citizens and contribute positively to the environment.
Speculation abounds over who will succeed Mancini as City manager, but the smart money seems to be on Malaga's Chilean manager, Manuel Pellegrini.
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And GE (NYSE:GE) recently announced that it will be partnering with the City of Yangzhou to build a smart grid demonstration center.
According to Cisco, the u-City project will help Busan to boost economic development, increase revenue, encourage citizen engagement, reduce city operations costs, support brownfield revitalization (many of the Smart Work Centers will be built on brownfields), and strengthen city operations management and social resiliency.
The City will additionally work with partners like the Smart Chicago Collaborative to develop a comprehensive strategy for digital skills training to ensure that Chicagoans can make the most of broadband access.
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Mitchell took Smart to parties in the Salt Lake City area, and they ate together at restaurants.
In a smart downtown office in the southern Indian city of Bangalore dozens of Indian graduates work for ICICI OneSource.
Louis is a city that works for Boeing, making fighter planes and smart bombs, and for Anheuser-Busch, making beer.
"The Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge was an opportunity to reimagine a piece of outdated city infrastructure in the age of mobile, " said the Smart Sidewalks team.
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Its main city, Portland, became the poster child of the "smart growth" movement by forcing up density, building an extensive light-rail system and restoring its urban core.
One Cisco telepresence suite in a Smart Work Center, for example, could set a city back six figures.
Among the items discussed were how to improve competition between the city's other bus operators and the introduction of a "smart ticketing" system similar to London's Oyster card, which would work with different providers.
In Kansas City, we too often watched the demise of good stores full of smart folks who loved books.
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It would probably be easier for my kids to get into a hoity-toity college, since smart high schoolers are a dime a dozen in New York City and its environs.
He was certainly smart enough to know better with an Electrical Engineering degree from City University of New York, but the added cash was enough incentive to have Karunatilaka cross the line.
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Designed primarily for city and suburban use, the new car will be smaller than a Smart car (three of them can fit into a single parking space), light (around 500 kilos), twice as efficient as an average car and will have the lowest emissions of any car in the same class.
And Hopkins invited with him on a ramble to the city of Saint Asaph, three miles north, Joseph Rickaby, a very smart runt with an M.
Petersburg, he argues, will model city life in years to come because they will be more able to attract smart people from all over the world who, congregating together, will make wonderfully creative places to live and work.
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