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Cities must be connected before they can become smart WBA

2016-02-25 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

Wireless Broadband Alliance says better coordination is required between different city agencies.

How IBMs Smarter Cities Initiative Takes on Waste Management

2016-02-24 20:09:00| Waste Age

Technology giant IBM has created a world-wide initiative called Smarter Cities designed to help cities and companies leverage data to ultimately improve operational performance in many sectors, including waste management. read more

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Increased flooding in US coastal cities caused by climate change, study says

2016-02-23 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Rising sea levels are putting increasing pressure on US coastal cities, with a new analysis showing that human-driven climate change is to blame for three-quarters of the coastal flooding events over the past decade. The Climate Central research shows that coastal flooding days have more than doubled in the US since the 1980s, the primary drivers of which have been the warming of the atmosphere and oceans. The findings are based on a separate study, released on Monday, that found the Earths seas...

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Working Group to develop consensus framework for smart cities.

2016-02-23 14:31:08| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

ANSI has joined NIST and several partners to launch international technical working group that will develop white paper defining common architectural principles and vocabulary for smart cities. In consultation with city stakeholders, group will do comparative analysis of existing architectural efforts and produce framework document that can be used to bring greater coherence to standardization activities taking place internationally in various standards developing organizations and consortia.

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