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A search engine is an internet program that collects and organizes content according to a user’s query. For instance, a person who performs a search engine search for “restaurants near me” would (ideally) see a list of websites that belong to restaurants in that person’s area. While search engines are extremely complex programs, it isn’t …
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Strange but true: there has previously been little physical, digital, or theoretical connection between smart homes and smart cities. But that is changing. Governments, businesses, and citizens are increasingly seeing the smart home as the obvious missing link in the creation, expansion, and improvement of smart cities. Smart homes – benefits for the individual Smart …
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The pandemic has changed the way governments approach smart cities – likely permanently – a new report shows. ESI ThoughtLab’s “Smart City Solutions for a Riskier World,” released March 30, reviewed 167 cities worldwide and found that 81% of respondents said the pandemic and its repercussions were the biggest disruptions not only of 2020 but …
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“This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away.” – WHO executive director Mike Ryan, May 13. Vaccine or not, we have to come to terms with the reality that COVID-19 requires us to rethink how we live. And that includes the idea of smart cities that use …
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When cars sit in traffic or at stoplights, they waste gas. Larger vehicles like tractor trailers use more fuel than cars when they idle and when they’re getting back up to speed after stopping at a red light. In fact, the Department of Energy estimates that more than 6 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel combined are …
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With new smart technologies appearing every day, the ultramodern city scape is quickly becoming a reality. But where are these advancements taking place, and where should the epicenter of change occur? One immediately thinks of large cities like New York, Boston and Los Angeles. Yet recent ventures show that smaller and medium-sized cities are better …
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The key to urban planning and smart city development is data, experts say. That sounds easy enough considering the amount of data available today, but challenges persist. For one, cities don’t have a great track record with data management. “Cities operate a lot of things still on paper,” said Justin Dennis, CTO and co-founder of Urban SDK, a …
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