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Woodstock Recognized as International Smart City Leader at Taiwan Conference

Woodstock Recognized as International Smart City Leader at Taiwan Conference

Editor’s note: Global Atlanta’s Michal Jensby traveled to Taipei with the delegation to contribute the bulk of the reporting for this article. This article was first published in Global Atlanta, an online news publication devoted to revealing the city’s ties with the world and helping local companies

What Does A City Need To Actually Be Called A Smart City?

What Does A City Need To Actually Be Called A Smart City?

At first glance, it might seem difficult to come up with many similarities between Taipei and its Sister City, Atlanta. The Taiwanese capital has five metro lines that moves millions of people a day. Metro Atlanta’s daily rider numbers just hit 200,000. Despite carrying an endless stream of

The Race To Zero: How Smart Cities Can Get Green

The Race To Zero: How Smart Cities Can Get Green

Langdon Morris has put together a roadmap to how we can create a true, clean world. He is the author of Net Zero City, a book that suggests that there is a path to curb the climate crisis by the year 2032. Any way you look at it, that is

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Foresight AR Beacons Give the Visually Impaired A Way to Navigate Independently

25.5 million adults in the United States have reported vision loss, ranging from partial to total blindness. One of those individuals is David Furukawa, who was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease in college and gradually lost his sight. As he felt a loss his independence in tandem with

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Georgia Tech Leads Public-Private Challenge to Help Small Cities Become Smart Cities

A report released by the National League of Cities last year showed that about two-thirds of cities reported investing in smart city technology — and for good reason. Connected devices and data monitoring technologies can make cities and local governments run more efficiently, improve traffic and gridlock, and even potentially

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This Startup Is Getting Cities Ready For Electric, Connected, and Autonomous Traffic. Will Citizens Plug In?

Internet of Things technologies have been positioned as the cure-all for numerous urban challenges ranging from public safety to sustainability commitments to transportation issues. Cities are increasingly using IoT both reactively — to address obstacles like crime as they arise — and proactively — to collect and analyze data and inform future

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What's the Next Step For Smart Cities? According to Atlanta's CIO, A City-Based Enterprise Data Platform

For the last few years, Atlanta's city government has been on a quest to utilize the latest technologies across IoT, big data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to tackle the city's biggest challenges — everything from traffic to water to public safety and crime. This vision