Smart city data reflects San Diego EV market, attitudes
Smart City San Diego, which launched its Solar-to-EV project — one of the first of its kind in the world — in September 2012, has now released usage data collected at the EV charging stations…
How utilities are using big data
Utilities and grid operators are turning to experts to handle the big data they are gathering. Use of data about their systems and their customers varies widely. While it can inform transactive energy services…
Helping Augmented Reality Reach Its Potential
Several IEEE activities bring awareness to the technology’s possibilities Augmented reality—which provides a digitally enhanced view of the world by adding…
Prediction about smart cities
The number of smart cities worldwide will quadruple within a 12-year period — with at least 88 by 2025 — proliferating as local governments work with the private sector to cope with a multitude of…
Global leaders embracing smart cities
The smart city concept is driving new integrated approaches to city operations with city leaders globally embracing the smart city concept by heralding innovative projects and laying out a vision for how cities can use…
The Rise of the Personal Power Plant
Smart and agile power systems will let every home and business generate, store, and share electricity Photo: Adam Voorhes; Prop Stylist: Robin Finlay At first glance, downtown Fort Collins, Colorado, looks like a sweet anachronism….
Capitalizing on the digital transformation
Energy companies are undergoing a digital transformation. Customers are driving this shift in business model, in part, through their choice of communication channels. Mobile is a huge part. In 2013, utility customer communication via mobile…
Smart Cities: Choice or necessity?
Asia-Pacific boasts most of the world’s largest and fastest-growing urban areas, and smart city technology is becoming a crucial element of their future development, according to Navigant Research, as nations throughout the region are sponsoring…