Belfast Health and Social Care Trust wanted to improve workflow and communications throughout its services to help doctors and nurses connect more efficiently and deliver higher levels of care. Belfast Trust deployed Lync Server 2010 from Council Lead Partner Microsoft across all its locations.
Council Associate Partner Black & Veatch believes in microgrid technology so much that it installed a microgrid in its Rodman Innovation Pavilion at its World Headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas. This 30,000-square-foot building features a microturbine, solar PV, geothermal technology and battery storage as you'll see in this video tour.
This white paper from Arup, in collaboration with Council Lead Partner Qualcomm, examines intelligent connectivity as it applies to urban mobility: how people and things move through cities.
Watch this brief video from Council Associate Partner Intel demonstrating multi-copter drones equipped with Intel RealSense camera modules successfully avoiding collisions in a tree-studded forest.
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) hosted a Google Hangout featuring a Q & A session with smart city experts and thought leaders with insight into India’s smart cities development plans. The event promotes the USTDA’s efforts to catalyze nearly $2 billion in capital for priority renewable energy projects in India. Henry Steingass, USTDA’s Regional Director for South and Southeast Asia, moderated the Q & A.
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Proactive water leak detection is one of the main goals in reducing non-revenue water (NRW) in urban water distribution networks.
The city of Buenos Aires places great importance on meeting the needs of its citizens, as well as the commuters and tourists who come into the city every day. Working with Council Lead Partner Microsoft and its partners, the city has explored ways that technology can streamline local government, improve information access and citizen-centric services, and empower the city’s youth to build a better future.
The Norfolk County Council (NCC) will utilize a cloud-based information hub to transform the delivery of integrated public services in Norfolk, with the goal of driving efficiencies through smart use of technology and multi-agency collaboration. By utilizing the economic and social value of the big data held by NCC and its partner agencies, the new information hub will help NCC create a local knowledge economy, improve education standards and attract further investment to the county. Get details in this video from Council Lead Partner Microsoft.
Much of the world's population does not have access to a bank account or any other reliable way to store and access their money. They are reliant on cash and all the perils that come with it. Financial inclusion, as this video from Council Lead Partner MasterCard explains, is the idea that everyone deserves the tools to participate in a growing economy.