December 2009
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How Do we Make Tel Aviv-Yaffo Smarter?
Tel Aviv is in the center of a Mega Polis similar to London, Surrounded by Smaller cities. Traffic Jams, Expensive Housing and Municipality Problems.
An Improved Portal (At present Sharepoint) a more Open Advanced IT.
We can Consolidate, Upgrade and improve services like Nyc.gov, For the whole Central area not only Tel Aviv.
Sam of Chanasys.
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Repost From Old Blog: Smart Homes
uninformedfuturism:
In the future people will live in smart homes… We’ve been hearing this forever… But the time has come.
First things first, not all my posts will begin with “smart” by coincidence it just so happens I’m thinkin’ about “smart” stuff.
Anyways… Smart Houses are coming, their rise has already begun, consider home servers, lighting systems controlled by people’s iPhones, etc....
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Treviso come San Francisco
micampe:
Streetline is starting to gain speed, thanks to a successful trial of their smart-parking system in San Francisco. Basically, it’s a network of parking sensors, which are keyed into a centralized system that monitors open parking spaces. Using a smartphone, you can then find out where the open parking-spaces are. (Smarter Cities)
Anche noi abbiamo i parcheggi intelligenti, solo che...
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“If you live in a city of reasonable size, there are probably developers who have...”
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Just launched this week, Appify.com, a marketplace, discovery platform and innovation engine for local mobile apps. I’m excited to be working on something I believe people will find useful, and that will help make cities a bit smarter, and our lives a bit easier.
For now, it’s fun to get...
LineGuidePod/PemmPOD - Automated Line Following...
This is a concept car for a smart city.
http://tiny.cc/WtitI
The mobile is a solar/electric hybrid of a PC, Media Station, Office Work Station and a Personal Emotional Mobile
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“TOPP is a technology-driven social enterprise. Our projects leverage the Web to...”
– The Open Planning Project
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Obama's 25 Ways To Rebuild America:...
Obama’s Challenge: Construct green buildings that produce all the energy they consume. Who’s Got a Shot: Look for companies such as United Technologies and Honeywell to develop industrial-specification, energy-efficient systems for heating, ventilation, and water. Some of the $2.8 billion in Obama’s stimulus plan earmarked for residential green investments could help ...
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Sustainable South Bronx →
etownsavestheworld:
Check out SSBx!
History and Mission “Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx) is a community organization dedicated to Environmental Justice solutions through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by community needs. In 2001, SSBx was created to address policy and planning issues like land use, energy, transportation, water, waste, education, and, most...
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Urban Paradox →
timotheee:
Why the future of humanity and the long term sustainability of the planet are inextricably linked to the fate of our cities.
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Ecopolis on the Science Channel →
veevs:
interesting stuff!
Six-Part Series Premieres Mon, Dec. 8, at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Halfway through this century, 75 percent of the global population will live in cities. The citizens of these sprawling, ever-growing metropolises will burn through resources like food, water and energy at a rate far outpacing that of people living in nonurban areas. Such mass consumption will result in a very...
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WatchClearing the path for hands-free, automated driving
At UC Berkeley, PATH research engineer Wei-Bin Zhang describes his vision for an automated vehicle infrastructure. His team is developing technologies that allow cars, buses and trucks to connect with the roadway using sensors placed on vehicles and magnets drilled into the cement.
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The Next 5 in 5: Five Innovations that Will Change... →
(via antonella)
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Carnegie Mellon University's 'smart parking' moves... →
(via ajmacisaac)
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the future of motorcycles.
prettyingreentv:
electric bikes from BRAMMO (www.brammo.com ), they kind of remind us of a hip cafe-racer, but they do about 15,000 miles on 85 bucks of electricity.
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Smarter Cairo
Just came back from Cairo, Africa largest city! Also my first time out of Europe! With over 16Mil people Cairo has by far one of the worst traffic systems I have seen so far. In my 6 days there I spent about 4h in the car daily (I guess that’s why people leave the offices around 4pm). It didn’t matter day or night, if you were lucky it would take you 10 mins less…so not much....
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timnolan:
Nice simple stuff that makes sense from @firstborn_nyc & #Ogilvy — IBM Smarter Cities. http://bit.ly/5ymFFl
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“‘If the love of your life walks past you and you’re too engrossed in work to...”
– iPhone dating app removes need to even pay attention to other people | Metro.co.uk (via interestingsnippets) (via infoneernet)
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Robert Moses or Jane Jacobs? It is no longer... →
(via smarterplanet)
Adam Christensen and Susanne Dirks talked with me about a question being posed by Dana Blankenhorn.
Dana asks an interesting question: are IBM’s “smarter traffic” ideas an homage to Moses or Jacobs?
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Breaking Ground with a New Kind of Webcast for the...
The new Business Analytics & Optimization (BAO) Study (launching tomorrow, Dec. 9th) is entitled Breakaway because the report found that organizations that were making smarter decisions and applying predictive analytics were starting to put distance between themselves and competitors. It also found that such breakaway businesses were succeeding, even in these challenging times, by taking...
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“innovator beware, it is an inefficient and distressing process plagued by a high...”
– Bob Sutton (via designinginnovations)
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China Welcomes Carsharing
starlab:
When stuck in a taxi on one of Beijing’s many clogged ring roads, I’ve often marveled at how empty the other cars are. From the tiny pod-like QQs to the palatial Darth Vader-esque Audi A4s, Beijingers were typically driving alone. Sure, China’s collectivist history — and crowded streets and public transit — would seem conducive to ridesharing and carpooling. But in these...
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Trapster - Android Speed Trap Alert Application
androidappsonly:
Trapster is the most popular driving related mobile app in the world (both in cumulative and ongoing daily downloads). It is the first location-based application that alerts users in real-time when they approach speed traps or red-light cameras. It takes advantage of user input and the power of the community to provide not only the trap ...
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“The city moves according to laws that are more powerful and interesting than the...”
– Robert Hurst, The Art of Cycling (via urbancyclist)
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What is Breakaway?
Download now or watch on posterous Breakaway Buzz Clip Final.mov (8867 KB) http://bit.ly/ibmbreakaway Posted via email from Jack’s posterous | Comment »
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Watchsmarterplanet:
Watch Re-broadcast of IBM London Analytics Centre Webcast, Dec. 1. or find it in the Video Library.