View original post.Ever dreamed of living in a giant experiment? If so, Toronto may be the city for you. Sidewalk Labs has released blueprints for its proposed waterfront smart city and, depending who you ask, it’s either going to be the pinnacle of modern living or an Orwellian nightmare. Cities typically develop in a pretty organic fashion, but the Alphabet …

View original post.Setting her sights on Toronto’s Quayside plan to convert 12 acres of former industrial and docking land into a community that is connected from the ground up, Ann Cavoukian envisions a “smart city of privacy, not a smart city of surveillance.” The concept presented by its steward, Waterfront Toronto, is to transform the lakeside land and its conventional …

View original post.Israel-based Viziblezone wants to make it easier for self-driving cars to spot pedestrians, even if they aren’t yet in the field of view of the car’s sensors. I haven’t heard of all that many pedestrian detection startups, but there is a first for everything and if nothing else, Viziblezone is tackling an important issue, with millions of pedestrians …

View original post. Vodafone works with 80 per cent of the world’s car manufacturers on connected vehicles and towards automated cars: in Europe about 20 million cars are connected to its network. It is also involved in other elements of mobility, like Mobike’s cycle-sharing and car-sharing services, like Zipcar. Stefano Gestaut, CEO, Vodafone IoT, talks to Annie Turner about telecoms …

View original post.Startups and smart cities: Perhaps the most obvious environment the innovation mantra can be applied—just because you can doesn’t mean you should. It’s difficult to think of a space where so many bad ideas have attracted such a disproportionately large amount of attention. Heart-rate monitor door locks at your office—useless if you’re (literally) running late; self-cleaning pavements—nice idea, …

View original post. What happens when a group of high-profile urban thinkers, capitalized by the vast wealth of a tech goliath, snags a parcel of public waterfront in a major North American city as a sandbox for their ideas? One outcome just became clearer. Sidewalk Labs, the smart-city startup from Google parent company Alphabet, has released its master innovation and …

View original post. Travel Agencies have even switched from offline to online to such the market demands and to cater to the needs of the consumer June 16, 2019 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You’re reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. Over the years, Technology has become a game changer in …

View original post. Geme.io turns crowdsourced and voluntary data into accessible information Adventure of Lifetime OU has announced it has received EU funding to help commercialise and accelerate the development of its smart city app solution. The Geme.io solution uses geo-location to collect and display open public, crowdsourced and voluntary data that arrives via sensors, wearables, APIs and user-generated information. …

View original post. Smart Mobility, whether it be moving people, goods, or services is the lifeblood of our future city, and one that we must get right before a city can truly become a well-oiled machine. Without it, it is impossible to move commerce efficiently through time or space. In a perfect world, a transportation system should move the necessities …

View original post.Sidewalk Labs has launched prototypes for common symbols which it says could be used to make it clearer where hidden technology is being used in cities and the data that is being collected. The company, which is owned by Google parent company Alphabet and is building a smart city district in Toronto, said it developed the visual language …