sustainable cities
Cisco will work with Barcelona to launch a pilot program aimed at transforming the city into a “blueprint” for sustainability. The initiative will use technology to help achieve Barcelona’s 2020 vision of becoming a global reference model for sustainable urban development. Initial estimates from Cisco and the Barcelona City
smart healthcare
IBM and Nuance Communications plan to work together to explore, develop and commercialise IBM’s Watson computing system’s advanced analytics capabilities for smarter healthcare. The research and technology initiative will combine IBM’s deep question answering, natural language processing, and machine learning capabilities with Nuance’s speech recognition and
microgrid
High-tech battery firm Saft will supply renewable energy storage for 2500 R Street, California’s first micro-grid, distributed energy community housing project. Being developed by Pacific Housing, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, the homes will use the latest in smart grid, solar generation and energy storage to ensure each
smart meters
E.ON has announced plans to trial a new Smart Pay As You Go (PAYG) offering for Small to Medium Enterprises (SME), making it one of the first energy companies to offer this service. The new Smart PAYG offering has been developed with Secure Meters (UK) Limited to help business
One aspect of the smart-city vision that tends to get less attention than the big two — energy or transport — is health and well-being. It’s no surprise, considering the subject is a far softer, squishier one than nuts-and-bolts technology or bits-and-bytes IT. But energy-saving and efficiency-boosting technologies are already having
smart cities
Hi Greenbangers, Happy Valentines Day! As usual, it’s all go at Greenbang and there are few things I wanted share with you. First of all, thank you to those who came to last Thursday’s webinar on what to do with smart grid data — we had a great turnout
urbanisation
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Nowhere is that old adage more apt than in the smart-city realm, where everyone from health-care providers to utility companies is working to make urban areas more efficient and more sustainable. It’s a tall order even if we
feed in tariffs
The only way for the UK renewable energy market to grow to a respectable size comparable with Germany is for it to have the full support of the incumbent government. The fact that large-scale solar PV farms are beginning to appear in the English countryside should be celebrated as a
Smart Grid
“The Human Element,” as Dow Chemical rightly notes in its global ad campaign, is the one element that’s critical to innovation. But it’s also one that can’t be neglected as we work to upgrade and smarten our electricity grid and resource management strategies. Without taking into account
social media
There’s no doubt the web can be fun. Too much fun, in fact, as anyone who’s started out with a work-related Google search and ended up, three hours later, with a $100 email receipt from Amazon and a new high score on Bejeweled can attest. But what about
green buildings
What makes a green, sustainable building? Does it depend only on the carbon footprint of construction, and then how much energy the building uses once it’s inhabited? Is it better for construction materials to be 100-per cent natural, or are recycled plastics OK too? Is average environmental impact the
electric vehicles
If we handle the transition away from fossil fuels right, we should be looking back one day at today’s addiction to the internal-combustion-engine-powered personal passenger vehicle and finding ourselves shaking our heads at the absurdity of it all. Consider just what we’ve long done with our cars at
