Smart outdoor campus lighting networks provide the right amount of lighting for different types of locations and events. They also deliver enhanced safety, greater energy efficiency and lower operating and maintenance costs. Click to learn more about the benefits and advantages of intelligent campus lighting.
Watch this short video from Cisco demonstrating how smart street lighting solutions help cities get detailed data and control over streetlights, enabling better decisions about cost reductions through lower electric bills, better asset management and leveraging streetlights as sensors.
Farmer Craig Blackburn of Blackhills Farm in New Zealand, relies on Schneider Electric's SCADAfarm to manage water use. Learn how the system, built on Azure IoT enables Blackburn to adjust his irrigation machines to the land's water needs while integrating with weather predictions and making adjustments on the fly to net up to 50% savings.
A new initiative is adding a human touch to measuring poverty by collecting short video testimonials from people as part of the High Frequency Survey in South Sudan. Learn in this video how it aims to provide quantitative data on poverty levels in the country while at the same time providing an opportunity for the poor to voice their struggles.
The proliferation of mobile phones opens up new opportunities for conducting surveys in developing countries. Data about people’s lives can now be gathered much cheaper and faster. Watch in this video how the World Bank’s Listening to Africa initiative is now collecting household data through mobile phone surveys in African countries.
How do you provide safe, reliable, efficient and sustainable energy to people who don't have access to energy? With its Villaya Microgrid, Schneider Electric helps energize communities around the world. Learn more in this brief video.
The purpose of this guidance note is to provide an overview of the ecosystem of smart cities standards available globally, the benefits of their use and a structured list of some key standards and frameworks.
The Blue Lake Tribe has been on a small piece of land in Humboldt County, California since 1908. Tribal leaders want to sustain it for future generations. They also want to protect and improve lives today. Watch a video about a Siemens microgrid that is helping do both.
Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand (SCCANZ) has announced Place Design Group as its technical partner in the development of the Code for Smart Communities, a new framework for the creation of smart communities in Australia and New Zealand.
This scoping paper provides information about the Council’s aspiration to develop The Code for Smart Communities, a tool for catalysing smart community and precinct development. The purpose of this scoping paper is to engage, and seek feedback. This paper is the start, tell us what you think.