Hospitals are under enormous pressure to keep their costs down and improve the bottom line. They’re looking for ways to achieve greater operating efficiency to reduce costs. The “smart” bedside terminal can address most of these challenges. This all-in-one device connects and integrates the hospital information network, clinical services, patient entertainment and communication systems, enabling better and more efficient access at the point of care. Read more in the case study linked below from Council Associate Partner Intel.
Council Lead Partners S&C Electric Company and Schneider Electric completed one of the most advanced microgrids in the North America for Oncor, an electric transmission and distribution company serving 10 million customers across Texas. The microgrid will improve energy efficiency and power reliability for Oncor customers while maximizing newly installed energy storage and renewable generation.
Streetlights are important civic assets that consume approximately 40% of a municipality's energy budget. Replacing existing streetlights with networked LED luminaires enables tremendous energy savings. Learn more in this video from Council Associate Partner Silver Spring Networks.
Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Bit Stew Systems how its revolutionary information processing engine, MIx Core™, enables complex event processing, advanced analytics and sophisticated machine intelligence for utilities and the Industrial Internet. The technology has proven scalability to provide end-to-end operational visibility for billions of connected devices and trillions of data points.
A convergence is happening between smart grid platforms and smart city platforms. Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Silver Spring Networks about the opportunities that provides cities to take advantage of a common infrastructure to drive a whole host of compelling services.
Emerald ash borer infestation was detected for the first time in Canada in 2002 and in Quebec in 2008. According to Natural Resources Canada, “Canadian Forestry Service scientists estimate that the costs to Canadian municipalities for the treatment, eradication and replacement of trees affected by the emerald ash borer could reach 2 billion dollars over 30 years.”
While developing the award-winning Tesla Model S electric car, Tesla launched a program to aggressively deploy high-power, fast-charging stations -- “Superchargers” -- along major travel corridors throughout the United States. Council Associate Partner Black & Veatch partnered with Tesla to construct the largest contiguous electric vehicle charging system in the world. Learn more about the build out in this video.
In an unprecedented partnership among 19 federal and District of Columbia government agencies, the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative (AWI) is bringing communities together and residents to the doors of new businesses.
AWI is a trailblazing endeavor that is removing physical barriers and opening a gateway to the future by transforming a once disconnected and deficient urban environment.
More than half the world’s population live in cities. By 2050, 70% of the world’s people will be urban dwellers. With payments at the heart of a city’s economic activity and success, the efficient handling of funds will become increasingly important. Digitizing payments permits greater convenience for citizens and tourists and greater transparency for government.
This video explains how CivicConnect™ Mobile from Council Associate Partner Civic Resource Group International enables rapid deployment of dynamic mobile websites and applications for smart government on the go.