Smart Cities
Samsung Partnership for Smart City Infrastructure and Data Solutions
Samsung SDS, the digital arm of Samsung, and Telensa, a smart street lighting and smart city data provider, announced that they are working together on smart city projects. The two companies are collaborating on smart streetlighting, in which Telensa is the
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Google Hong Kong Releases Second Edition of Smarter Digital City Whitepaper
Google Hong Kong released the second edition of the Smarter Digital City Whitepaper. The research, conducted by Ipsos, takes an in-depth look at the progress of consumers’ perceptions of a Smart City and their technology adoption in everyday life; as
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DNV GL Launches Digital Consulting and Smart Cities Singapore Hub
DNV GL has launched a digital hub in Singapore as part of the transformation of the oil and gas, maritime and energy industries toward digitalization, including increased cyber security and smart infrastructure. The new Singapore hub is called Digital Consulting
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10 Ways To Accelerate IoT Adoption Across Asia
The benefits of IoT span three particular categories, namely the Industrial 4.0 Revolution, smart cities and consumer IoT. Excluding Japan, the IoT market in Asia Pacific is expected to grow from US$250 bil to US$583 bil by 2019. Meanwhile global
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Phuket and Khon Kaen Named as Top Smart City Projects in Asia/Pacific for 2018
IDC Thailand named Khon Kaen and Phuket cities as the most outstanding smart city projects in Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ) for the 2018 IDC Smart City Asia Pacific Awards (SCAPA). The winning projects, Kohn Kaen Smart Health and Phuket
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Paving the Way for Smart Cities: The Smart Sensor Platform Network
The cost of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors has decreased remarkably over the past decade, heralding new possibilities of a renewed push for smart cities. With worldwide spending on IoT predicted to surpass the USD$1 trillion mark by 2020, this
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Smart City Asia Pacific Awards 2018 – Opens for Public Voting
IDC Government Insights Asia Pacific opens public voting in its search for the top smart city initiatives in the region (excluding Japan) for the fourth straight year. Out of over 180 smart city project submissions coming from local governments and
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Managing Cyber Risk will be Key Challenge in the Cities of the Future
Cities in Asia Pacific are getting smarter, but they must be ready for the cyber security risks that accompany the growing adoption of tech-enabled real estate and infrastructure, according to the report ‘Clicks and Mortar: The Growing Influence of Proptech’. Commissioned
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Smart Cities Spending Guide Expects Technologies Enabling Smart Cities Initiatives to Reach $28.3 Billion in 2018
Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) on the technologies that enable Smart Cities initiatives is expected to reach $28.3 billion in 2018, according to the first-ever IDC Worldwide Semiannual Smart Cities Spending Guide. In its inaugural release, IDC provides a comprehensive outlook at the
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Nominations for the 2018 Smart City Asia Pacific Awards
IDC Government Insights announced today that this year’s search for the top smart city initiatives in Asia Pacific is underway. Dubbed as IDC’s Smart City Asia Pacific Awards (SCAPA), which is now on its fourth year, IDC is looking for
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