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A Panacea for Biomedical Waste Management?

The Environmental Blog

2] Since March 2020, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued periodic guidelines under the. Nevertheless, with the augmentation of cities , these sites now fall within city perimeters, thereby, exposing the inhabitants to health menaces and other environmental threats. Smart Waste Bins.

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Tech innovators should pay attention to NYC’s new air pollution monitoring pilot

EDF + Business

But what if while completing their routine routes, doing their regular jobs, these vehicles were doubling as mobile air pollution monitoring networks? Today, the New York City’s Mayor’s Office announced CityScanner, a new pilot program that will use city fleet vehicles to measure local air quality.

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Illuminating the City of Light

Smart Energy International

Like all major cities around the world, using technology to increase operational efficiency is high on the City of Paris’s agenda. By committing to IoT-based smart lighting, the city has put an important foundation in place to achieve its 21st century smart city efforts.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2021

Greentown Labs

Acelerex pairs clean energy and storage technologies with proprietary software innovations of AI, IoT devices, blockchain, big data, data mining, cloud computing, and real time optimization algorithms. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Electricity. Resiliency + Adaptation.

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How Houston’s model could change the way cities map air pollution

EDF + Business

Ordinary fleet vehicles doing their normal jobs in cities have hidden potential to shape actions that protect health and the climate. This is possible with the help of advanced mobile air pollution sensors paired with connected vehicle GPS technologies that allow cities to map pollutants at a hyperlocal scale.

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Cities are growing faster and smarter, but can they go greener? We asked Siemens.

EDF + Business

You might not be thinking about smart cities, or how the company is working to accelerate technology innovation, eMobility, resilience, and urban sustainability. What exactly is a “smart city”? For a smart city to succeed, we need good data to understand how to optimize infrastructure performance.

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Big business must lead the way as part of a post Covid-19 green recovery

Business Green

The global lockdown during the current pandemic has seen an unprecedented fall in pollution levels in many parts of the world. Information and Communications Technology solutions are clearly an important part of the answer, with studies showing that they have the potential to enable a 20 per cent reduction of global carbon emissions by 2030.