Urban traffic made beautiful. Mesmerizing video
People’s Choice Voting for IBM SmartCamp London Kickstart!
Your vote matters: we want to know who YOU would choose to win this year’s London SmartCamp KickStart People’s Choice! Our judges will choose an overall winner on Oct. 5th, but we will also announce the results of this vote to crown a People’s Choice Winner. So if you think a company has the smartest start-up for Smarter Cities, cast your vote below! For more information on each of these innovative startups, read their descriptions here.
Audio Analytic
Audio Analytic makes software that classify sounds by computer analysis, sounds like Aggression, Gunshots, Glass Break and Car Alarms.
MMVSense
MMVSENSE is a technology start-up specialising in wearable sensors and online services for the health monitoring and wellbeing market.
Quorate is developing a conversational speech recognition technology that can be used to search audio files for keywords and to automatically create transcripts of conversations.
Viewsy
Viewsy is a location analytics solution for the physical world. We provide a way to digitise an analogue world, turning visitor foot traffic into measurable insights that can be analysed and acted upon.
VoiceSecure have developed the UK award winning Emergency Rest Centre (ERC), software installed throughout many UK Councils and Government. ERC has been designed to provide you with the ability to understand, manage and provide targeted resources for your emergency situations. ERC enables response personnel to predefine their emergency response logistics e.g. the Region, associated Rest and Recuperation Centres, units of water, evacuee capacity, numbers of beds etc. In the event of a disaster on-site response personnel can input numbers of categories and the associated details at each rest centre. The information entered at the individual rest centre or rapidly established evacuation reception point is also available at any command centre that has the appropriate security clearances. This ensures that a command centre can be in full charge of the situation and manage respite resources with the best possible information.
Audio Analytic
Audio Analytic makes software that classify sounds by computer analysis, sounds like Aggression, Gunshots, Glass Break and Car Alarms.
MMVSense
MMVSENSE is a technology start-up specialising in wearable sensors and online services for the health monitoring and wellbeing market.
Activity4Charity Nesta Jun12 from Luke Murrell on Vimeo.
Quorate TechnologyQuorate is developing a conversational speech recognition technology that can be used to search audio files for keywords and to automatically create transcripts of conversations.
Viewsy
Viewsy is a location analytics solution for the physical world. We provide a way to digitise an analogue world, turning visitor foot traffic into measurable insights that can be analysed and acted upon.
Viewsy Launch party 1min30 from Viewsy on Vimeo.
VoicesecureVoiceSecure have developed the UK award winning Emergency Rest Centre (ERC), software installed throughout many UK Councils and Government. ERC has been designed to provide you with the ability to understand, manage and provide targeted resources for your emergency situations. ERC enables response personnel to predefine their emergency response logistics e.g. the Region, associated Rest and Recuperation Centres, units of water, evacuee capacity, numbers of beds etc. In the event of a disaster on-site response personnel can input numbers of categories and the associated details at each rest centre. The information entered at the individual rest centre or rapidly established evacuation reception point is also available at any command centre that has the appropriate security clearances. This ensures that a command centre can be in full charge of the situation and manage respite resources with the best possible information.
Could a city inhabited exclusively by robots provide the ideal testing ground for smarter cities for people? via This Big City
Last week we asked our Tumblr and Twitter followers for their Big Ideas for sustainable cities. We received some great suggestions, which Scriberia ’visualized’ for us (click to view a larger version of the image). Which is your favorite?
What’s your Big Idea for making cities more sustainable?
IBM UK are at Base London today discussing Big Ideas for sustainable cities with the event’s attendees. But we want your ideas too!
So what’s your Big Idea for making cities more sustainable?
The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) brings together artists, architects, scientists, landscape architects, engineers, and others in a first of its kind collaboration (via New York’s Land Art Generator competition funds Public Artworks that produce renewable energy « Artabase Editorial)
Children who live in walkable areas, with a child-friendly park nearby and access to healthy food have 59% lower odds of being obese. More on This Big City.
兒童若居住在適合步行的環境，住家附近又有兒童公園，亦有商家販售健康食品，肥胖機率會下降59%。更多內容請見《城事》。
Thanks in part to ARRA funding, solar energy capacity in New York City has increased 800 percent since 2007, with many more solar installations in the “pipeline.” This increase parallels the quadrupling of solar installation companies now doing business in NYC, demonstrating the economic benefits of enabling the solar market in this city of a million rooftops.
Six years ago, NYC had just one megawatt of installed solar power, and the local solar market faced extensive technical, administrative and policy barriers. A collaborative partnership, led by the City University of New York (CUNY), was formed that includes the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Together they are implementing a plan to systematically remove those barriers in order to support large-scale solar energy market growth. The partners have secured three consecutive U.S. Department of Energy grants, including an ARRA grant, that led to the development of five NYC Solar Empowerment Zones, NYC Solar Ombudsman, and the world’s largest LiDAR based map: the NYC Solar Map. The map utilizes 15 billion points of data to estimate the solar energy potential for every building in NYC. Since its launch in June of 2011, the map has received over 150,000 hits, serving as an interactive tool for New Yorkers by educating them about the costs, benefits, and payback periods of investing in solar installations for their properties.
City University of New York, NYC Economic Development Corporation and Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Sustainability, Solar Market Transformation
Animation of urban migration patterns 1950 - 2040. What’s the role of tactical urbanism in this future?
Animation by DoTank.
The Future of the City: Crowd-Sourcing & Gamification of City 2.0
By Kyle Rogler, Studio630
This summer Google will install a 1-gigabyte internet speed cable in Kansas City, which is a hundred times faster than the average broadband cable. This new asset will help revolutionize Kansas City’s technology infrastructure, but no one knows exactly how to utilize it to its fullest potential. James Moore proposes a novel idea which could generate interest back toward the city through crowd-sourcing and gamification of urban design.
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