Smart cities
€400.000 in prizes in Europe’s biggest app challenge
In Europe’s biggest ever app challenge the EU is offering €400 000 in prizes to best new applications that help build smarter cities and smarter businesses. Campus Party, the world’s largest geek forum, will manage the contest, judged by specialized engineers from the EU-funded FI-WARE Consortium
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Making Europe's cities smarter
At a conference today hosted by the European Commission, city leaders, CEOs and civil society leaders discussed the actions outlined in the "Smart Cities Strategic Implementation Plan" and how to put them into practice
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Smart networked objects: towards a civilization shift
Networked smart objects perform a growing share of control and monitoring in industrial plants and buildings and increasingly in our homes
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A bright future for smart cities
The technological, economic and social stakes around smart cities are interesting topics for the smart technology industries. In a world where the demography is exploding, many municipalities are exploring the Smart City concept as a way to improve themselves and become better places to live, work, and grow
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What are "Smart Cities & Communities"?
Smart and innovative cities make the best use of Europe's great capacity for research and innovation to improve the urban environment
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Commission launches innovation partnership for Smart Cities and Communities
One of the greatest challenges facing the EU is how best to design and adapt cities into smart intelligent and sustainable environments
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