Velodyne Lidar Adds the 'Smart' to Blue City Technology’s Smart City Solution

Velodyne Lidar is supplying Lidar sensors for use in Blue City Technology's 'Smart City' traffic monitoring solution to help improve road safety and mobility. Velodyne Lidar has entered into a multi-year sales agreement with Blue City Technology, developer of a Smart City system for traffic monitoring. The Blue City Technology solution, equipped with Velodyne’s Lidar sensors, helps improve road safety and mobility by providing real-time multi-modal traffic data and analytics to traffic lights. Blue City Technology uses Velodyne Ultra Puck sensors to collect reliable, detailed traffic data about road users, including vehicles, pedestrians and bicyclists, while preserving anonymity. Velodyne’s Lidar... (read more)

2020-07-29 11:29:47

Ordnance Survey Seeking European Smart City Standards

Ordnance Survey (OS) is to create a smart city standards-based technologies business framework for the European Union’s ESPRESSO project. ESPRESSO is being led by the Open Geospatial Consortium, and OS - working closely with key European bodies - will develop a strategic growth map for smart cities. Supported by PricewaterhouseCoopers, OS will also conduct analysis of existing and emerging economic, financial (including crowd-funding) and procurement models. OS is aiming to gather expert information and advice from commercial organisations and public sector bodies across the globe, and so is appealing to them to input into this framework and become key influencers... (read more)

2016-03-07 10:49:28

Use of GIS in Smart City Projects

Managing and Visualising Geospatial Data in a User-friendly Environment

A geographic information system (GIS) has been used in the construction of a large-scale model of a smart city project in France. The smart city concept is developing very quickly around the world, because it provides a comprehensive digital environment that improves the efficiency and security of urban systems and reinforces the involvement of citizens in urban development. This concept is based on the use of geospatial data concerning the urban built environment, the natural environment and urban services. The successful implementation of a smart city project requires the development of a digital system that can manage and visualise the... (read more)

2018-10-04 08:41:01

Key Topic of Intergeo 2016: Smart City

By taking Smart City as a key topic, Intergeo 2016 is focussing on a multi-faceted issue that will shape the future. The preview of the leading international event for the geospatial community in Hamburg was attended by renowned experts from industry, science and public authorities. During their discussions, all were agreed that cities must and will become more intelligent – not because that is a natural consequence of digitalisation, but because it benefits society. Intelligent geodata is a crucial prerequisite for any such development. In April 2016, the patron of Intergeo, the DVW German Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land... (read more)

2016-05-04 11:18:18

Intergeo 2016: Strong Focus on Smart City

Intergeo 2016 is almost getting started, this year being held in the vibrant German port city of Hamburg. An excellent location, especially given the fact that this year’s edition of the world’s leading trade show and conference on geomatics has a very dynamic key topic: Smart City. Other main topics are big data and digital construction. All of this will be fuelled by new processes, solutions and business models – e.g. the Internet of Things (IoT), self-driving cars, virtual reality and much more. The world around us is evolving rapidly and, to handle all these challenges, spatial data is indispensable.... (read more)

2016-10-07 09:19:39

CloudCities 3D Smart City Service

SmarterBetterCities has announced the public release of CloudCities: an intuitive 3D city service with features for community engagement, easy city data sharing and analytics. Stakeholders can easily explore new city developments or observe the existing places in which they live and work. Dashboards provide detailed information about space allocation, energy consumption and costs. Stakeholders can contribute valuable feedback instantly, start discussions and suggest new proposals even during public hearings or from home. All they need to do is access CloudCities using a regular web browser on tablets, smartphones or regular desktop computers. Self-operated CloudCities’ content can be completely self-operated... (read more)

2015-07-20 10:56:31

Public Participation Makes Digital City Truly Smart

Public involvement is transforming the digital city into the smart city of the future. With the EU “Smarticipate” project, the Fraunhofer Institute for Visual Computing IGD is centring its presentations at Intergeo 2016 on getting city dwellers involved in planning and political decision-making processes. The specialist exhibition, three presentation slots at the Intergeo conference, the Intergeo report and the Intergeo TV 'Opinion Leader Talk' video format with Dr Joachim Rix will all focus on public participation through visualisation and interaction based on geographical data. What transforms the digital city into the smart city? According to Dr Joachim Rix from the... (read more)

2016-09-20 10:34:56

Delivering Instant Smart City Models with Web Streaming

CartoConsult, a provider of smart 3D building and city models, can now deliver 3D city and building models, via the web to any internet-connected device, on subscription. With live web streaming, CyberCity 3D models can be instantly viewed anywhere, any time, on tablets, smartphones, interactive screens and traditional PCs. Using Cesiumjs open architecture, a cross-platform virtual globe designed for dynamic-data visualisation, CartoConsult believes the new web streaming capability will significantly boost the appeal of applying 3D capability to projects. Compatibility Potential users such as urban planners, developers and engineers will no longer need special software to view the models. The... (read more)

2016-05-20 10:48:14

Rolta Awarded USTDA Contract for Chinese Smart City Project

Rolta has announced that it has been awarded the prestigious 'Smart City' project for Nanjing, China, in preparation for hosting the 2014 Youth Olympics. Rolta has engaged ARES Security Corporation of Burlingame, CA, USA, to leverage its systems engineering expertise to assist in developing an integrated geospatial transportation solution for the city. The solution will collect Nanjing's transportation data from hundreds of sensors and provide dashboards to assist in traffic management and monitoring environmental parameters in real-time to better handle the dramatic increase in demands on the city's infrastructure. With this solution, which incorporates Rolta iPerspective, a platform for integration... (read more)

2013-04-24 08:30:00

BeiDou Satellite Navigation Application Expo & Smart City Expo

The “2018 China (Nanjing) BeiDou Satellite Navigation Application Expo & China(Nanjing) Smart City Expo”will be held on November 30-December 2 in Nanjing due to its unique geographic position. BeiDou Navigation Satellite System(BDS),combining navigation with communication functions,has been a national key strategy, an important military-civil industry support,and a business card of China conforming to “The Belt and Road”initiative .During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China introduced many related documents to support the development of satellite navigation industry. According to The Medium and Long term Development of the National Satellite Navigation Industry, one of the three trends for GNSS industry is... (read more)

2018-06-04 02:29:36