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.Below is an animated representation of Council Lead Partner GE Digital Energy's Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) and the real-world utility heroes it's designed to empower.
Watch this video to learn how Signal's social media monitoring solution for cities, which is built on Council Lead Partner Microsoft's Windows Azure, helps city leaders filter out the noise on social media and listen more effectively to its people.
In India, new growth centers are emerging beyond the country's six emerging metros. As growth shifts to smaller second- and third-tier cities, smart cities efforts need to be refocused on these emerging cities before growth overruns them. This report profiles 20 cities that are poised to emerge as smart cities.
Council Associate Partner OSIsoft, producer of the PI System, the leading operational data infrastructure for real-time data and events, and Esri, the global leader in geographic information systems (GIS) are partnering to execute on the vision of real-time GIS.
Germany is among the most advanced countries when it comes to recycling, and in the city of Rostock, Council Associate Partner Veolia is converting one billion plastic bottles each year into granulate used to make new bottles. Once they are collected and transported to the processing center, the bottles are pre-sorted by color, with their caps and any residual waste removed,.
Much has been written about India's quest to build 100 smart cities. This brief video from India's Ministry of External Affairs provides a high-level overview of India's plans to tranform its urban landscape and its diplomatic efforts to reach out to other nations -- the U.S., Japan, Singapore and Australia among them -- to help make it happen.
The city of Las Vegas saves money and enables self-service among business users by leveraging Oracle BI Cloud Service. Raghav Venkat, senior systems analyst with the city of Las Vegas, describes how decision-making capabilities drastically improve in this video from Council Associate Partner Oracle.