We love smart cities. But while this McKinsey report in 2018 said that smart solutions are making cities more livable, there’s still a way to go before we see the true potential of urban intelligence in action. As of right now, there’s a vast array of digital solutions
For many years now, companies have been migrating to the cloud intending to harvest its many advantages. That led to the fast growth of cloud computing ballooning up from $90bn in 2015 to upwards of $312bn in 2020, according to Statista. But in the meanwhile, edge computing has been steadily
Smart cities are coming – we all know that. We also know that they’ll be digital cities that are full of all sorts of incredible smart city technology. But what will the experience of actually living in them be like? To find out what it might feel like to be
While much of the world’s focus is rightly on reducing carbon emissions from hydrocarbons and manufacturing industries, buildings are also major emitters of carbon. Building and construction activities together account for 36% of global final energy use and 39% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions when upstream power generation is
By 2025 there will be an estimated 41.6 billion connected devices in the world, according to market research company International Data Corporation (IDC). That’s five devices for every single human on the planet. The repercussions of such a statistic are far-reaching. The Internet of Things (IoT) – essentially the
Drop the word ‘robotics’ into a conversation and the chances are you’ll trigger a discussion about humanoid robots or movies such as Blade Runner. Yet robotics technology is revolutionizing everything from security to space exploration. In a world where natural-language processing has enabled computers to understand human speech and
