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New paths for the roads of tomorrow
Transportation news feeds are filled with tech innovations and new start-ups willing to improve our daily mobility. But infrastructures are also changing; new materials and technologies are appearing to transform our roads into smart, connected and safer…
October 23rd, 2017
Discover modular mini farms, the future of urban farming
You’ve probably heard a lot about urban farming lately, from aquaponic installations to ambitious urban farming projects. But “micro-farms” seem to be the next step in the story of urban farming. The California-based company CityBlooms just developed…
May 15th, 2017
Smart Benches in London boost donations for World Cancer Day
World Cancer Day was held on the 4th February. To raise awareness about this important health issue and boost donations, the Cancer Research institute bet on innovation with the installation of 10 smart benches across London. The charity organization…
March 17th, 2017
With Movement, Uber offers access to its traffic data
Thanks to its app, Uber has collected a great amount of data about how people move around cities. Precious material for public authorities and urban planners, who often lack accurate information to make important decisions about infrastructure projects…
February 9th, 2017
Direct Line invents a drone that lights your path home
Are you afraid of the dark? Have you ever struggled to walk back home through dark, empty streets?The British insurance company Direct Line designed Fleetlights, a prototype fleet of flying torch drones that help people feel safer when…
December 5th, 2016
Stockholm is the most connected city according to Ericsson
"Smart city" is an empty concept without a sustainable dimension. Resiliency, collaboration and mobility are essential criteria to create liveable, vibrant cities. Every two years, Ericsson releases the Networked City Index to observe the sustainability…
August 31st, 2016
Prioritizing cyclists when it rains with traffic lights
Even if you love biking, it's easy to be discouraged by heavy rain. Rotterdam decided to make biking under the rain easier by turning traffic lights green for cyclists.As bike traffic increased by 10% last year, Rotterdam is willing to further stimulate…
February 8th, 2016
Fighting air pollution with innovation
France currently chairs and hosts the COP21. More than 190 countries are negotiating a new international agreement on climate change to keep global warming below +2°C. Among the different environmental issues, air pollution appears to be a growing concern…
December 14th, 2015
Connected bins in New York City
Massachusetts-based waste management company BigBelly and the City of New York implemented connected bins in downtown Manhattan that are equipped with chips alerting trash collectors once the bin is full. They are now about to be turned into Wi-Fi…
July 21st, 2015
Responsive street furniture for the disabled
As part of the Designs of the year exhibition held at London's Design Museum, British designer Ross Atkin unveiled prototypes of street furniture able to adapt to disabled people's mobility and offer them a customized experience in real time. After…
May 5th, 2015
Towards a normalization of smart city projects
As part of the Fiware project, a cloud-based and open source platform dedicated to new technologies and funded by the European Commission, 31 cities from 7 countries (Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, Spain and Brazil) just signed the "Open &…
March 19th, 2015
CES 2015: Towards a connected world
The 2015 edition of the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), held in Las Vegas from January 6th to 9th, was the largest in its history, with 3,600 exhibitors and 170,000 industry professionals. Confirming a trend that had already emerged during…
January 28th, 2015
A smart system able to identify the least-crowded subway cars
"Check Room" is a concept presented by South Korean designer Wan Ki Kim as part of the of the 2014 Spark Design Awards.It aims at solving the overcrowding issue in the subway during rush hour by allowing a more efficient distribution of commuters between…
November 25th, 2014
What do cities smell like?
Based on the fact that the sense of smell is both one of the most developed and most untapped one, British artist and designer Kate McLean created a series of maps focusing on olfactory perception. Her "Smellmaps" aim at identifying and describing the…
September 29th, 2014
Smart solar-powered benches for Boston parks
The City of Boston is about to set-up connected benches in several of its parks, allowing citizens to charge their mobile devices while relaxing.The "Soofa" is equipped with solar panels and offers two USB plugs.It also features sensors intended to…
July 2nd, 2014
Smart transportation market to reach $104.19 billion by 2019
Global smart transportation market is expected to grow at an annual rate of 18.3% from $45.05 billion in 2014 to $104.19 billion in 2019, according to a report published by MarketResearch.Areas taken into consideration in this report include ticketing…
June 1st, 2014
Making cities accessible to the visually-impaired
As part of the efforts to enhance cities' accessibility, recent technologies allow significant improvements to let the visually-impaired move safely and independently in an urban environment. Innovations based on sensors, visual recognition systems, bone…
May 21st, 2014
Where are the smart cities in Europe?
The European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy recently published a report aiming at mapping smart cities in the European Union. According to its authors, a city can be defined as "smart" if it launched at least one initiative in one…
May 20th, 2014
The responsive facade
As part of a competition to remodel the Seoul headquarters building of Korean conglomerate Hanwa, UNStudio unveiled the plan of a project aiming at showing the company's excellence in environmental technologies.The team of architects imagined an…
May 19th, 2014