Hamburg wird zur Smart City
Lastwagen kommunizieren mit Ampeln, Sensoren steuern den Verkehrsfluss – bereits seit zwei Jahren testet die Stadt Hamburg verschiedene Smart City- ...
Semarang launches Asia’s first city resilience strategy
The city of Semarang, Indonesia, has released Asia’s first city resilience strategy. The strategy document identifies the six biggest challenges of ...
Big oil companies go green
Big oil companies such as ExxonMobil, Shell and Total have currently expanded their investments in renewables and clean energy. But it might be too late ...
Urbanization presents opportunity to lower emissions
Although urban areas might not be viewed as enviromentally friendly places, per capita carbon emissions in cities are normally lower than average in ...
Drones could deliver medicines to remote areas
Various companies, including the UPS Foundation, have teamed up to discover the use of drones in transporting critical medicines to remote areas around ...
Santiago’s subway system to be powered by wind and solar
The subway system of the city of Santiago, Chile’s capital, will become the world’s first to be powered mostly by renewable energy sources. ...
Droughts and conflicts leave 80 million in food crisis
According to new report, 80 million people around the world are suffering from a food crisis due to armed conflicts and severe droughts caused by the El ...
How Big Data is changing healthcare
As no other sector relies more on data analysis than healthcare, the potential of Big Data is enormous. Thus, technology could revolutionize all steps of ...
LA opens up smart city data pool
With giving researchers high-speed access to its smart city datasets, the city of Los Angeles, United States, aims to foster new data-driven discoveries. ...
New Orleans: Eine Stadt versinkt
Aufgrund seiner ungünstigen Lage droht New Orleans zu versinken: Umgeben von Fluss, See und Meer kämpft die Stadt gegen das Wasser und das immer stärker ...
