To meet greenhouse gas reduction goals, the city of Boston sought to reduce energy consumption through efficiencies and behavior change. Read in this case study how Boston leveraged Schneider Electric's StructureWare software for citywide energy, greenhouse gas and sustainability management.

Leaders wanted to make Bilbao in Northern Spain a better place to live by promoting public transport, more efficient urban freight improvement, deployment of smart mobility services and by making traffic and mobility data available to citizens.

Learn about the collaborative, multidisciplinary approach used in the 18-month smart city initiative in Hong Kong designed to tackle the management of waste, water, energy and air quality in this case study from Council Associate Partner Schneider Electric. 

Council Partners Schneider Electric, Cisco and Microsoft were among those whose expertise helped Spain's second largest city realize its vision of “a self-sufficient city" by leveraging smart technologies. Click the link below to learn more.

This is part one of a webinar series from Council Associate Partner Elster that gets under the hood of the Advanced Meter Fort Collins (AMFC) project, where the successful implementation of technology is integrating and leveraging AMI data to create system wide customer and operational benefits in the Colorado city. This segment reviews the project management, what it entails, and gets into the business case for AMFC, including deployment data gathered after the first year of implementation.

To provide a safer community for its citizens, the Surat City Police Department started the ‘Safe City Project,’ an initiative striving to reduce the city’s crime rate using modern technology. Watch this video from Council Lead Partner Microsoft to learn more about it.

With a population of 235,000 and growing, there are many more streets in Laredo, Texas than during its frontier past. And that was a problem for the city's utility department. It was walking those streets to read 67,543 water meters – which took a staff of 10 nearly a month.

Council Lead Partner Microsoft along with Guide Dogs and Future Cities Catapult have launched the results of the first phase of an exciting project expected to revolutionize how people with sight loss, and the sighted, experience the urban landscape, by creating a new application of 3D sound. This video showcases the project.