Cities must address communication between citizens, elected officials, tourists, technical departments, and local businesses. Omexom offers the Connected Municipality Initiative app to help them make everyone an active participant in city life, facilitate access to the city centre, and ensure that the smart city benefits everyone. Cities are not companies, but like companies they […]
Electric vehicle charging, waste collection, irrigation management, parking space monitoring… a multi-application approach to urban lighting is gaining traction. Electricity networks have a wide variety of purposes. They are used to power impressive light shows, such as the dazzling “Grandes Eaux Nocturnes” water and light display that takes place every summer at the Château de […]
If a new product or service is to find a market, it can no longer be developed in a silo, independently of its environment. It must be connected to an ecosystem that brings together millions of objects that are themselves connected to the Internet, at a time when the new smart city technologies are growing […]
In March 2017, the King of Morocco launched Tangier Tech, a smart city to be built on a 200-hectare site over the next 10 years. Designed as the spearhead of the future Tangier region economic hub at the gateway to Europe, Mohamed VI Tangier Tech City has set international goals. A Chinese group is helping […]
Connected and service-oriented, buildings are becoming increasingly smart. But they can’t be smart on their own. As an integral part of the smart city, the building of the future not only exchanges information with its environment but it also exchanges energy: in the context of the green transition, it becomes both a “proactive consumer”, capable of managing […]
The Smart Buildings Alliance has set out two guidelines for the smart building, "Ready to Services" and "Ready to Grid", which focus on integrating the smart building within the smart city.
The various trials that have been carried out in areas such as energy, water, air, and transport have gone a long way towards validating the smart city concept. The question now is how to upscale so that regions can benefit from these innovations. On the initiative of We Design Services, several players from the ecosystem, […]
Professional drones have carved their place in the smart city, working alongside builders and building managers, with cloud technology and 3D mapping helping to consolidate their position. The media has popularised the notion of products purchased online and delivered from above via drones. Drone deliveries, which are easier to carry out in suburban rather than […]
Angers, a city in western France that is a pioneer in the field of geographical connectivity, has launched a collaborative platform for experimentation in the internet of things (IoT). In addition to its commitment to the development of smart and connected cities and its recognition since June 2015 as a “French Tech” (as an active […]