The British capital is launching multiple projects to offer its inhabitants a more fluid and sustainable life, and is currently considered one of the world’s “best smart cities”. According to the latest edition of the IESE Cities in Motion Index, published in 2021, London is the best smart city in the world. Certainly, the British […]
Tencent, the Chinese internet and mobile giant, plans in the next 7 years to build a city of the future in the heart of Shenzhen (the metropolis linking Hong Kong to China’s mainland), where it is headquartered. Equivalent in size to Monaco, the new city is intended to enable Tencent employees to live and work […]
Making smart cities relevant to an ageing population is a key issue for future regional policies, and one which start-ups have already been addressing. France is currently home to 1.5 million people aged 85 or over, with this figure set to triple in 30 years. In 2016, around 7,500 nursing homes welcomed more than 600,000 […]
Tested in Lemgo, the We-Light Open smart lighting solution developed by Omexom provides a permanent power supply for street lighting systems combined with a fine-grained control of city lighting. It also fits into the broader framework of smart city applications. When it comes to upgrading a city’s lighting system, installing LED lamps often tends to […]
An article by our partner site Le Monde de l’Énergie The move from the internal combustion engine to alternative drive systems is under way. France, with Europe’s second-largest fleet of all-electric vehicles, is in the vanguard of the revolution. New electric vehicle registrations increased 25% in metropolitan France in 2018 and set new records, month […]
The Agility Effect continues its investigations by talking with Mehdi Moussaïd, “crowd scientist” and researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin: how does the crowd fit in with the smart city, which seems geared to the reign of the individual? 12/12/2019
How is data collected then converted into information that helps city councils make decisions? We look at its journey from the physical world (in the field) to the digital world (storage, AI, business applications, etc.). Data processing systems based on smart-type environments can appear truly baffling for the uninitiated. At the very start of the […]
Fibre, WiFi, Lora, 4G, and soon 5G: which network is best for a smart, efficient, and well-run city? The best answer is a combination of networks converging in a data-sharing platform, based on the existing urban infrastructure, and focused on open standards. Fibre, 5G, WiFi, Bluetooth, Lora, Sigfox, etc. Which is the ideal network for […]
Understanding the destabilisation caused by the emergence of “breakthrough” players in the urban environment; overcoming tensions between the “magical thinking” about smart cities and the reality on the ground in cities; establishing a dialogue between governance and innovation… these are all issues raised in the study “Audacities. Innover et gouverner dans la ville numérique réelle” […]