Tag: smart city technologies

U.S. Smart City Initiatives Are Falling Short; New Report Calls for More Federal R&D and Coordination to Deploy AI Tools

The next wave of connected and intelligent technologies—sensors, 5G, and artificial intelligence (AI)—promises to improve the energy efficiency of urban systems. AI, in particular, can help cities save money, address infrastructure needs, and reduce emissions. Yet cities face significant challenges in researching, developing, demonstrating, and deploying AI and other smart technologies. A new report by the […]

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Privacy Gray Areas In Smart City Technologies

Is the pandemic highlighting just how powerful (and invasive) smart city technology will be? Smart cities rely on the collective intelligence derived from the technologies embedded into the framework and services of its future-forward metropolis. The smart city concept is built on data. Fed back from a metropolis’s worth of sensors and endpoints, data provides […]

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