Smart City Resilience: Learning from Emergency Response and Coordination in Japan
February 1, 2013 | Smart CitiesCities worldwide are placing increasing importance on building up resilience to natural disasters, such as extreme weather, flooding, heat and water stress, caused by climate change. Confronted by a natural disaster, smart cities can use sophisticated ICT infrastructure and analytical capabilities to enhance and coordinate the information flow between multiple public agencies. With the help of mobile networks, a city municipality can reach the majority of its citizens at short notice. Cities can learn from the experience of Japan, where the federal government launched an emergency warning system in February 2007, providing its municipalities with a plan and a solution to respond to natural disasters.
Finland: Forum Virium Helsinki - A user-driven approach to developing smart city services, mobile apps and open data
December 19, 2012 | Smart CitiesThrough its smart city initiatives, Helsinki is making innovative use of mobile technology, engaging with citizens and opening public sector data up to all interested parties.
Germany: T-City Friedrichshafen
November 13, 2012 | Smart CitiesThe five year old T-City test bed in Friedrichshafen, Germany, is demonstrating how a smart city can combine innovative information and communication technologies, together with a smart energy grid and services, to help improve the quality of life of citizens.
South Korea: Developing Next Generation Utility Networks in Jeju island
September 7, 2012 | Smart CitiesJeju island project is one of the first Smart grid test-beds set up around the world. Its objective is to optimise energy usage in 6000 homes. The smart grid – an intelligent power transmission and distribution system – will collect real-time data to limit unnecessary use of electricity and increase the efficiency of its consumption. It is a close public–private collaboration that should help Korean companies to achieve a leading position in the early commercialisation of smart grid technology. This example is useful around the world, as it tests the management of next generation utility networks and how they can be supported by modern IT platforms and communications networks.
Busan Green u-City – A successful example of a Smart City in South Korea
August 31, 2012 | Smart CitiesIt is an inspirational innovative project. In Busan Green u-City, cloud-based architecture is applied to new urban services through a public-private partnership. This will result in the launch of community centres and numerous urban services for its citizens. This project also demonstrates how the role of mobile operators in smart cities can go beyond connectivity, designing a smart city strategy and providing on-going operational management of smart city services.
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Smart Home of the Future
July 4, 2012 | Smart CitiesThe existing niche home-automation market is being transformed by the mass-market availability of connected smart devices that enable a wide variety of new smart home services. Both the utilities and communications sectors are playing a significant role in this transformation.
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EU public consultation on spectrum
July 4, 2012 | Smart CitiesIn April 2012, GSMA provided a response to the European Commission’s public consultation on Spectrum for more efficient energy production and distribution. Download the summary of the consultation here:
And the individual responses are posted here:
Following the analysis of all the responses, the EC’s Spectrum unit decided that it will not be proceeding with a dedicated initiative at this time, as most respondents did not support the need for dedicated spectrum. However, the EC will continue to look at this issue closely under the Radio Spectrum Policy Programme (RSPP), and smart grids / energy efficiency will be one of the priorities under the spectrum inventory.
GSMA Home Energy Gateway Requirements Whitepaper
May 4, 2012 | Smart CitiesA Smart Grid in Action
April 27, 2012 | Smart CitiesPlease click here to view the film.
The Vision of a Mobile-Enabled Smart City
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SmartSynch and AT&T: End-to-end cellular-based advanced metering infrastructure
April 27, 2012 | Smart CitiesUtilities Facing Many Challenges
March 29, 2012 | Smart CitiesUtilities are in the crosshairs of many forces in the world today. Among these are environmental global warming concerns putting pressure on the ability to generate sufficient electricity to meet future demand. Another is the multiplicity of computer and communications systems that must be protected against threats from those who would do harm to electric, natural gas and water distribution systems.
The Future of Smart Metering
March 29, 2012 | Smart CitiesSmart Mobile Cities
March 29, 2012 | Smart CitiesThe twin challenges of rapid urbanisation and climate change are contributing to
the scarcity of resources in cities in both developed and developing markets. Cities
around the world are suffering resources constraints in energy supply, road capacity,
water reserves and even clean air for their citizens to breathe. New solutions
are urgently required to cope with these resource challenges to ensure that the
city of the future is a safe, healthy and desirable place for its citizens to live,
work and play.Why Mobile for Smart Utilities?
March 29, 2012 | Smart CitiesAs smart grid standard-setting gets underway across the globe, KEMA urges the mobile industry to participate and contribute. Though different utilities have different requirements and constraints, for operators the prize of capturing a greater market share will only be realised if they are able to accommodate these differences.
Consert Utilities Case Study
March 29, 2012 | Smart CitiesGSMA Vision of Smart Home Report
March 29, 2012 | Smart CitiesGSMA urges the mobile and utilities sector to jointly develop smart home business models for the mass market, with market studies and proofs of concept. We want to speed up interoperability which will open the door to achieving large scale more quickly. In parallel we need to stimulate joint regulatory discussions between healthcare, energy and communications regulators, to accelerate the adoption of services such as assisted living and elderly care, and to facilitate the integration of the smart home into the smart grid.
GSMA Home Energy Gateway Requirements Whitepaper
March 29, 2012 | Smart CitiesThis paper is an input to standards organisations, such as ETSI and the Smart Grid Coordination Group, to facilitate the creation of common standards and processes for managing the flow of data around smart services in the home. It also provides guidance on security and interfaces requirements to set-top box manufacturers and other device manufacturers to facilitate the deployment of large-scale smart home services.
The role of operators and mobile technology in the smart home is outlined, it includes connectivity (primary and back-up), interface (on smartphones and tablets) and the provision of support services, for example, billing, service assurance, provisioning and customer support.
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