To what extent is your city smart? – Smart Cities Maturity Models
One of the first steps in formulating a Smart City strategy is to know the city's level of maturity in order to determine the next steps to be taken. In this co...
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Smart Air Quality Management for Smart Cities
Every year, 7 million deaths are due to air pollution exposure. Undoubtedly a devastating fact, which, much to our regret, often goes unnoticed. But that is not...
How Economy 4.0 enables Smart Cities?
When embarking on a smart city journey, it’s important to have a global vision and strategy. Defining the number of bike lanes or a waste management policy come...
COVID-19, the example that reflects the need to invest in Smart Cities
On a battlefield, it’s not always the one who strikes first, who wins. You can start with loose fists, maintain resistance, and finally counterattack. And at th...
Urban Development Policy in Smart Cities
The fast and inevitable emergence of smart cities has a huge impact on urban development policy and urban planning. In this article, we go into detail about the...
Smart Infrastructure, the Matter that Smart Cities Are Built Upon
Smart cities need smart foundations. After a decade of trial and error, municipal leaders are realizing that it’s not just about installing digital interfaces i...
Smart City Series: Mexican Smart Cities
The concept of smart city has ceased to be a technological fantasy and has evolved from fancy buzzword to our hope for a better future as the implementation of ...
The virus brought a revolutionary change – The next generation of smarter cities
The terrible pandemic that we are still suffering brought also some new opportunities in lots of different fields. One general example might be the generalisati...
Benefits of Smart Street Lighting
There are over 300 million street lights globally. Obsolete street lighting can account for more than 40% of the total energy consumed by a city. The case for S...
How smart interventions can address multiple urban challenges at once
This is a long form version of the introductory talk I gave for our panel discussion during the Zigurat Innovation Week at the end of June. The session focused ...
Smart Logistics in Saudi Arabia
The launch of the "National Transport and Logistics Strategy" by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the 29th of July 2021 as a comprehensive program backed up ...
Area Self-Actualization via Smart City Development
Area Self-Actualization refers to a geographic area that has achieved its full potential regarding the environment, people, their behaviour, and the interaction...