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Report says smart lampposts can assist Covid response and recovery

Envirotec Magazine

In Barcelona, the City Council has developed a camera-based solution attached to lampposts in the Las Ramblas area to ensure public health on beaches and implement crowd control measures to help tackle Covid. Lockdowns have cost Europe €2 billion per day[1], equivalent to the cost of investing in 2 million smart lampposts every day.”

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Ed’s note: Innovation for utility challenges in a volatile world

Smart Energy International

EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) is a highly diverse area, both between the individual regions and across them. Across Itron’s nine key areas of activity, Dietrich highlighted three of them, all of which are relevant right across EMEA: Smart cities Water resource management Data and analytics.

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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

GreenBiz

In fact, in Europe and the United States, more people die of heat waves than from all other natural disasters combined. Cities are particularly vulnerable to heat waves. Smart Cities. Yet extreme heat is progressively posing fatal danger for humanity, particularly for young children and elderly people. Pull Quote.

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Vattenfall presents a uniquely connected lighting system for municipalities

Smart Energy International

Making streetlights ‘smart’ involves more than just the possibility to control them remotely. Smart’ in the first instance only describes introducing the ability to interchange data between various entities in a wider system. In its simplest form, it allows the lamps to report lamp- or power supply failures.

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Google and C40 cities launch carbon-free energy pilot

Smart Energy International

Across the pilots, cities will explore policy and market reforms that expand access to clean energy and ensure that residents realise the economic, employment and health benefits of the clean energy transition.

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Innovative biophilic design planned for new village in Portugal

AGreenLiving

The location and the focus on health are seen through the plans to cater to mobility to, from, and onsite with electric vehicle charging stations and infrastructure to support the use of bicycles and electric scooters. With this project, we intend to develop a smart city, or in this case, a smart valley.”

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Online Green Economics Conference: Survival Solutions for Crises (Climate, Economy and Biodiversity Loss)

Green Market Oracle

We explore fact, truth reality, democracy and the current dilemmas of technology vs freedom and surveillance vs health which are affecting everyone on the planet. Smart Cities, smart women, smart lives? Do we want Factory Farmed Humans? Virtual visits to forests and trees.