Smart City

Smart cities add digital intelligence to existing urban systems, creating a pervasive, integrated, and intelligent city environment with IoT solutions.

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Smart electricity meter market 2024: Global adoption landscape

Smart electricity meter market 2024: Global adoption landscape

In short By the end of 2023, 1.06 billion smart meters (electricity, water and gas) have been installed worldwide, according to IoT Analytics’ Global Smart Meter Market Tracker 2020–2030. Smart meters enable utility service providers across the world to digitalize their distribution infrastructure and services efficiently with near real-time data. North America has the most mature smart...

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Smart Cities of the future: 7 things that successful cities do

Smart Cities of the future: 7 things that successful cities do

In short There are 7 things that successful Smart Cities do differently according to IoT Analytics latest research on Smart Cities.The 7 success factors include the empowerment of citizens, the facilitation of public-private collaboration, and the alignment with government initiatives. Why it matters? Approaches to Smart City differ tremendously, with some cities appearing to be more successful...

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The top 10 Smart City use cases that are being prioritized now

The top 10 Smart City use cases that are being prioritized now

In short Cities are increasingly relying on IoT technology to become “smart”.IoT Analytics published a comprehensive 134-page report studying the initiatives of some of the world’s smartest cities such as London, Beijing, Berlin, Barcelona, and Dubai.“Connected public transport” is the #1 IoT use case for Smart Cities, followed by traffic monitoring, and water level monitoring. This article...

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The impact of Covid-19 on the Internet of Things – now and beyond the Great Lockdown: Part 1

The impact of Covid-19 on the Internet of Things – now and beyond the Great Lockdown: Part 1

Update November 2020: IoT Analytics published a more recent blog on: State of the IoT 2020: 12 billion IoT connections, surpassing non-IoT for the first time. Covid-19 is having an unprecedented impact on our society and our economy. There are also strong indications that many technologies will see accelerated adoption in the coming years because people become more digitally minded as they...

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Smart Meter Market 2019: Global penetration reached 14% – North America, Europe ahead

Smart Meter Market 2019: Global penetration reached 14% – North America, Europe ahead

The Smart Meter is considered as one of the most mature and most widely adopted applications of IoT technology today. IoT Analytics’ new Smart Meter Market Report 2019-2024 estimates global smart meter penetration (electricity, water and gas) to have surpassed 14% in 2019 i.e., 14% of all meters are now smart meters. (Note: A smart meter is defined as an intelligent and network-enabled measuring...

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5 Key Insights from 350 Smart City IoT Projects

5 Key Insights from 350 Smart City IoT Projects

Smart City IoT projects are becoming fundamental for city development. The EIP-SCC (European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities and Communities), for example, is spending up to €1bn to develop 300 smart cities in Europe by the end of 2019. The opportunity is evident for IoT solution vendors - in an analysis performed by IoT Analytics in Q1/2018, Smart City was the #1 implementation area of...

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Our View On Smart City

Smart cities add digital intelligence to existing urban systems, creating a pervasive, integrated, and intelligent city environment where IoT solutions are used to seamlessly interconnect, interact with, control, and provide insights about the various silos of fragmented systems within cities.
This smart city research stream covers a range of sub-segments and their corresponding IoT solutions, such as:

  • Connected streetlights
  • Intelligent transportation (e.g., smart parking, connected traffic systems, autonomous vehicles)
  • Smart utilities (e.g., smart metering for electricity, water, gas; smart bins for waste management)
  • Electric vehicles (e.g., charging stations, connected infrastructure)
  • Public safety (e.g., first responder, weather monitoring, video surveillance)
  • Other (e.g., smart governance, citizen engagement, open data)

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