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Report says smart lampposts can assist Covid response and recovery

Envirotec Magazine

They can also incorporate CCTV, air quality sensors, flooding monitors, digital signage, and 5G wifi hotspots. A quarter of these have been converted to run on energy saving LEDs, with more than 10 million lamp columns already set up as smart lampposts. Globally, there are 326 million street lights.

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DISTRIBUTECH International announces Host Utility, partnerships to support navigation of the energy transition

Renewable Energy World

DISTRIBUTECH International, the leading annual transmission and distribution event, is pleased to announce its Host Utility Oncor, as well as partnerships with the California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA), Forth, Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) and Vehicle-Grid Integration Council (VGIC), for its 2022 event taking place Jan.

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IoT enablement a top priority for 2022 – Wi-SUN Alliance

Smart Energy International

“IoT initiatives, such as smart metering, streetlighting and those using environmental, air quality and acoustic sensors are increasingly generating huge volumes of data and while this information may be made entirely ‘secure by design’, the risks remain.”. The survey involved 300 IT decision-makers, 200 in the US and 100 in the UK.

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Squeezing valuable drops out of smart water innovation

Smart Energy International

A $4m project is attempting to deliver groundbreaking smart water metering solutions that cater for utilities in terms of readability, battery lifetime, interoperability and cost. Jonathan Spencer Jones reports. Pre-commercial procurement. from Italy.

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2nd International Conference on Urban Growth and the Circular Economy (Urban Growth 2020)

Eco-Business

The quest for the sustainable city has until recently focused on the efficient use of resources with the application of technical advances giving rise to the definition of SMART Cities. Following its success, it was decided to reconvene the event in Bilbao, Spain, in 2020.The

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Insights and Excitements from Our 2020 Pipeline

Elemental Excelerator

Here, we’d like to share with you some high-level data from our pipeline, and explore a few things we’re learning about what’s shaping the future of energy, mobility, water, food, and the circular economy. It’s definitely possible that we will look back at COVID-19 as the key that unlocked smart cities.”

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A conversation with Ford's sustainability leader

Business Green

Ford pledges to use 100 per cent renewable energy for all of its manufacturing plants (by 2035), eliminate single-use plastics from its operations (by 2030) and achieve zero waste to landfill across its operations. Fehrenbacher: With so many things on the roadmap, what are the sustainability priorities for 2020? This year is a big year.