Construction Reporter
  • Home
  • Services
    • Planroom
    • Printing
    • Project Upload
    • Architects & Owners
    • General Contractors
    • Subcontractors
  • Free Trial
  • Become a Member
  • Magazine
  • News
  • Contact Us
  • About
    • About
    • FAQs
    • Privacy Policy

2019 growth is forecast for smart city movement

2/18/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
More and more urban areas are expected to embrace the fundamentals of Smart City technology this year, says an engineering technology website.
The Smart City movement in 2019 is “going to take a longer view into the future,” contends the website Interesting Engineering.
With urban officials everywhere constantly looking for ways to reduce building costs, the Smart City movement is proving particularly alluring because it avoids the necessity of digging up “the same streets over and over every year in order to add infrastructure for the new applications.”
Defined as any place where the application of communication and information technologies is used to enhance both sustainability and efficiency, the Smart City movement remains an “outlier of things to come,” technology writer Llewellyn King predicted earlier this month.
“Smart cities are the precursor to big changes in everything from transportation to entertainment, from food delivery to garbage control,” writes King in the site InsideSources.
In September, the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade announced it was investing $500,000 in the Arrow Electronics company for its testing of Smart City urban environment concepts.
Earlier in the year Panasonic unveiled a Smart City testing ground near the Denver International Airport.
In Arizona, the Arizona Technology Council is advocating that state lawmakers meeting for the regular 2019 session of the Arizona State Legislature should embrace Smart City development programs, while Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller announced in December that he is looking for ways for the city to implement its own Smart City effort by installing cameras and sensors to optimize transit and other services.
A new report released by the EastWest Institute of New York contends that as the Smart City movement continues to gain traction, cities across the country need to identify a Smart City Vision, adapt government structures, and ensure a wide stakeholder participation.
With such goals, notes Smart and Safe: Risk Reduction in Tomorrow’s Cities, urban areas will be better able to make strategic decision in advance, “instead of as an afterthought.”

By Garry Boulard

0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Get stories like these right to your inbox.
    ​Sign up for our newsletter

    Subscribe

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017

    Categories

    All

AFFILIATES

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
HOME
PLANS & PRICING
FREE TRIAL
MAGAZINE​
BECOME A MEMBER
PRINTING SERVICES
FAQS
CONTACT
​ABOUT

TIMELY, RELIABLE NEWS SINCE 1949 ​Construction Reporter
​
4901 Mcleod Rd NE STE 200A
Albuquerque NM 87109


​Phone: (505)-243-9793
Toll Free: (877)-292-5793
​Fax: (505)-242-4758

Copyright © 2022 Construction Reporter
User Agreement   Privacy Policy   Archive Policy
  • Home
  • Services
    • Planroom
    • Printing
    • Project Upload
    • Architects & Owners
    • General Contractors
    • Subcontractors
  • Free Trial
  • Become a Member
  • Magazine
  • News
  • Contact Us
  • About
    • About
    • FAQs
    • Privacy Policy