Part of the Smart Columbus initiative is increasing the rate of electric vehicle adoption in the area. [credit: Smart Columbus ] In 2016, Columbus, Ohio, beat out 77 other small and midsize US cities for a pot of $50 million that was meant to reshape its future. The Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge was […]
Just a few years ago, smart cities, a catch-all phrase for connecting urban infrastructure like parking meters and stoplights online, had major buzz. The idea was to use machine learning to crunch data collected across cities to, for example, minimize traffic delays and reduce pollution. But smart city projects haven’t taken off as quickly as expected, […]
Expand / The two of San Diego’s camera-equipped smart streetlights at dusk in August, 2020. (charge: Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images) Within the last couple of decades, road lights at town of San Diego are very”smart,” outfitted with a record of detectors and sensors that record back information around town and its denizens. […]