Snapdragon Sense ID is the first comprehensive mobile biometric solution based on ultrasonic technology. Watch this video from Council Lead Partner Qualcomm to learn more about this cutting-edge fingerprint authentication breakthrough.
Location information can provide valuable insight that smart cities can use to improve the lives of citizens. The Open Geospatial Consortium Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework provides guidance on planning and implementing open spatial standard architectures, which are key to driving interoperability and efficiency in GIS projects.
Cape Town, South Africa is using software from Council Lead Partner Microsoft to transform its infrastructure with a private cloud to standardize service delivery to all constituents.
Siemens teamed with Duke Energy to demonstrate the results of an 18-month effort to reduce the cost and expand electric vehicle charging technologies. The demonstration proved new residential smart electric vehicle charging technologies can lower charging costs, assure grid reliability and provide greater customer awareness.
To manage and monitor its photovoltaic plant facilities, 9REN created EOSystem, a solution built on the Wonderware® System Platform from Council Lead Partner Schneider Electric.
CenterPoint Energy is building an “Intelligent Grid” with power line monitoring equipment, remote switches, and other automated equipment that will locate power line outages as they occur. Ventyx, a subsidiary of Council Associate Partner ABB, will implement an Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS), the computer system which will be the intelligent grid’s “brain.”
The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) has a long history of self-reliance when it comes to energy. Today, the campus produces 92% of its own energy. It’s striving to go further with a combination of new clean energy resources, additional on-site generation and storage, and innovative demand-reduction strategies.
To ensure its ability to deliver clean, reliable, water to households and businesses, Yorkshire Water depends on having access to a large pool of data but found that it needed a more scalable technology infrastructure.City Harvest has 30 years of experience making the fastest connection between a donor with excess food in New York City and a person in need. Now, it’s making an even bigger difference as you'll see in the video below. By improving internal efficiencies and external relationships using Microsoft Dynamics software from Council Lead Partner Microsoft, City Harvest has nearly doubled its rescued food deliveries while keeping costs the same.
The IT network at Shrewsburgy School, a boarding school in the UK, was not able to keep up with the demands being placed on it, particularly by its digitally experienced students who were expecting more and more of their devices and connectivity speeds.