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Environmental Monitoring: A Guide to Ensuring a Successful Mobile IoT Deployment

Environmental monitoring and management is becoming more important, as managing the environment and understanding its impacts drives increasing amounts of regulation and activities to reduce pollution. IoT sensors are able to give ...

Smart Water: A Guide to Ensuring a Successful Mobile IoT Deployment

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Managing the supply of water is becoming a critical task for cities and their water utilities around the world. Particularly as they try to create sustainable businesses and deal with the effects of climate change, which increases the ...

Smart Parking: A Guide to Ensuring a Successful Mobile IoT Deployment

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Smart parking using Mobile IoT is one of the best tools a city has to solve parking and congestion issues. This guide explains how a city or parking operator can best approach a smart parking project and what steps they need to take to ...

Mobile IoT: The Ideal Fit for Smart Cities

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Monday 3 Jul 2017 | Smart Cities Highlights | Smart Cities Resources |

The introduction of Mobile IoT networks from mobile network operators will offer a scalable, secure and standardised way to connect smart city assets across a wide variety of services in an economically sustainable way. Mobile IoT ...

Vodafone Smart Center: Smart City La Rinconada

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The Smart Center, launched by the Municipality of La Rinconada and Vodafone, is designed to accommodate the growing needs of a town that is undergoing residential and industrial expansion. By adopting a range of IoT solutions across ...

Maximising the Smart Cities Opportunity: Recommendations for Asia-Pacific policymakers

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Monday 8 May 2017 | Smart Cities | Smart Cities Highlights | Smart Cities Resources |

Asian cities are facing pressing and complex challenges: reducing pollution and mitigating the consequences of climate change, efficiently managing economic resources, and improving the quality of life of citizens. This ...

GSMA Smart Cities Guide: Street Lighting

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Friday 31 Mar 2017 | Smart Cities Highlights | Smart Cities Resources | Smart Cities Safety |

Street lighting is a core piece of urban and rural infrastructure. Lighting helps to create a safe environment for both pedestrians and drivers. It is now cost effective to add communication technology to street lamps at the same time ...

Smart City Chicago

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The city of Chicago is undergoing a transformation. By harnessing the power of big data and the IoT, the city is in the process of fundamentally improving its services and economy.

Building Smart Cities – The Crucial Role of Mobile Operators

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Tuesday 17 Jan 2017 | Resources | Smart Cities Highlights | Smart Cities Resources |

This video explores the definition of a smart city, the value that mobile operators bring to smart cities, and advice to governments and city planners looking to deploy smart city services.

GSMA Smart Cities Guide: Traffic Management

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Designing and building an effective transport network is one of the biggest challenges facing cities. As the urban population grows, so the city's public and private transport systems become strained, and even small issues and ...

GSMA Smart Cities Guide: Water Management

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Mobile Operators' smart water management solutions have evolved rapidly in recent years, enabled by advances in mobile communications technologies and the growing availability of high performance, relatively low-cost IoT sensors. In ...

Webinar Highlights: Smart Cities – Delivering Innovative Services in Partnership with Operators

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The growth of the IoT will have a significant impact on the development of smart cities, helping to drive productivity and deliver innovative new services. However, without effective strategies in place, cities will be ...

Webinar Highlights: Smart Cities – Delivering Innovative Services in Partnership with Operators

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Smart City Tainan

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Monday 19 Sep 2016 | Smart Cities Highlights | Smart Cities Resources |

This short video case study provides an overview on how the city of Tainan in Taiwan has worked with local mobile operator Far EasTone to provide better services for the city including traffic and water management solutions.

GSMA Smart Cities Guide: Crowd Management

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Crowd management technologies have moved on significantly over the past few years. Not so long ago, crowd management solutions relied on using video footage and facial recognition to count how many people were in certain areas. These ...

Keys to the Smart City

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How mobile operators are playing a crucial role in the development of smart cities By harnessing the ongoing expansion in wireless connectivity, the Internet of Things (IoT) is delivering affordable, scalable, ...