Singapore still leads the world with smart tech
The Wall Street Journal has quite rightly highlighted Singapore's interest in staying ahead with smart technology. Data has now been fed into an online platform 'Virtual Singapore' it records, that allows the government in Singapore to predict how an infectious disease might spread or how crowds could react to an explosion in a shopping mall. There are now plans to share data with the private sector in an attempt to encourage innovation. The market for smart-city technology i
Silver Spring Networks and IoT
Silver Spring Networks has been extremely successful worldwide at delivering data platforms to drive innovation. So it was a pleasure to invite the European Commercial Director, Smart Cities and Lighting, Brian McGuigan to talk to us at our Future Cities Forum on 6th March at the IET, London about city attitudes to embracing the Internet of Things. Brian was clear that within Europe there are different cultural histories meaning that there is a variance in attitude. However t
Smart city lighting - safety and energy
Our city lighting is an important aspect of city safety but will smart technology also help us save on energy use? Silver Spring Networks is a company with experience of introducing smart technology to help conserve energy use across the world. At our sustainable cities and smart technology forum on 6th March, the firm’s European Commercial Director of Smart Cities and Lighting, Brian McGuigan will be speaking about his experience of introducing the company’s city lighting ex