Cars, sensors and the IoT in the smart city
Forget the smart home. Smart TVs, fridges and light bulbs might make our lives more convenient by a small margin, but arguably, the true potential of sensors and related IoT technology lies in smart cities and cars. These could change the way most humans live for the better, improving resource efficiency and overcoming many of the problems cities face. After all, 56% of the world’s population lives in cities now and this is set to continue rising.
But are the sensors and technology behind smart cars and cities ready for showtime? Let’s run through their capabilities before going on to answer this question.
This South African app wants to help fix your city
Acumen Software's My Smart City platform hopes to help South Africans resolve service delivery issues quickly and efficiently, CEO Joao Zoio tells TechCentral's TC|Daily. Joao Zoio is a man on a mission. As CEO of Acumen Software, he is overseeing the development of My Smart City, a platform that integrates with municipalities to try to resolve service delivery issues quickly and efficiently.
The platform, available on the Web or via smartphone apps, allows residents to log issues that need attention, from potholes to broken streetlights.
‘Smart’ 15-minute city for Cyprus? They must be joking
We are used to businesses whining in Cyprus. Sometimes it’s justified and sometimes it’s not, but overall, there is often a mentality that we should not ever sympathise with them.
Not all enterprises are part of ‘big business’. Someone might be supporting their whole family from a small specialised shop, which was a point made by businesses along the upper part of Makarios avenue during a recent discussion at the House over road changes affecting their custom.
IN: Meghalaya: Shillong: Smart City project pipe dream?
More than four years have passed since it was announced that Shillong will become the 100th and last city to be part of the Smart City project; but till date, it has not seen any major progress. Not even a single project under this initiative has been commissioned in Meghalaya.
Under the project, the government plans to construct smart roads and improve several junctions in different parts of the city. Only recently, a tender was floated for the project.
Galaxy Backbone’s Shared Services Centre to Enhance Nigeria’s Digitization Drive
The chairman of Tata group, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, is on record as having said that “Going digital is no longer an option, it is the default”. When we consider how the world is evolving almost at the speed of light, we can confirm these words as valid and ones that everyone must digest and understand its implications for the benefit of everyone.
Nigeria has, indeed, gone digital, having made giant strides and bold steps that have been taken by this current government to enhance digital transformation. However, there is still a lot of ground to cover, a lot of room to bring in public and private sector organisations, communities and individuals to bridge the digital divide and enhance the gains of digitization. This, underscores critical importance of the National Shared Services Centre (NSSC), powered by Nigeria’s Digital Infrastructure Company, Galaxy Backbone (GBB).