The Chinese city has the aim on transforming the street lighting in an intelligent system The Highways Deparment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (HKSARG) has announced a new and innovative pilot project to boost the efficiency and intelligence in the street lighting. Following this instructions, the HKSARG has selected his smart city application provider, Telensa, to deploy its PLANet intelligenet street ligthing system in a pilot programme.[caption id="attachment_8201" align="aligncenter" width="504"] Yuen Long district, Honk Kong[/caption]This pilot, that will run in the area of Yuen Long Town in Hong Kong, has te aim on replacing approximately 600 streetlights in this district of Hong Kong with LED lights controled by a wireless system. This plan will impact, gradually, the 148,000 inhabitants of...
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Bristol wins global Smart City award
The British city has defeated other opponents like Barcelona, Dubai, New York, Singapore and Yinchuan during the GSMA´s 2018 Global Mobile Awards Wich is the Smartest City of the world? We have the answer, although this could sound quite pretentious: Bristol. This is the conclusion obteined during the GLOMOs (the 'Oscars' of the mobile industry) that were celebreted during the last month in the Mobile World Congress, at Barcelona.Bristol, that has defeated other Smart Cities that traditionaly have occuped high technology levels (New York, Dubai, Barecelona, Singapore, Yinchuan...), is actually the smartest city of the world. To that end, the judges have highlighted the joint venture between the British city and the University of Bristol and Bristol City Council, called Bristol Is Open. This partnership has the aim on integrating three networks through software defined control:...
Bombardier foresees 2,050 new aircraft for Asia-Pacific by 2036
The aeronautic manufacturer predicts a big growth in Asia-Pacific region in the next 20 years Bombardier Commercial Aircraft’s 2017-2036 Market Forecast, covering the 60- to 150-seat segment, shows that the Asia-Pacific region, which Bombardier defines as Asia without Greater China, is forecasted to...
The Government of Canada will invest in the smart grid expansion
This smart grid investment has the aim on fighting climate change, creating clean jobs and ensuring safer power delivery for Canadian citizens $100 million is the investment that Jim Carr, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, announced the past January to develop more smart grid systems in the American...
T&D Europe launches its new website
The assotiation represents the electricity transmission and distribution equipment and services industry T&D Europe, that represents a industry of about 25€ billion and that employs about 200 000 people in the european territory, has published its new webpage, wich explains the activity these companies undertake to ensure a...
Australia will be the home of the biggest lithium battery of the world
The battery, powered by Tesla with the collaboration of the energy renewable company Noen, will be instaled in the south coast of Australia The South Australia Government has announced that this region will house the biggest lithium battery of the world. This technological milestone will happen...
Egypt will be able to export electricity by 2020
The arab country is working in the efficiency of the national grid in order to be prepared to export electricity for the next decade With more than 90 million population and a economy that will experiment an important growth, Egypt is preparing itself for the future of the national grid, specially to the possibility of becoming,...
The Australian renewable sector reaches record growth in 2016
The "aussies" have increased their compromise with the renewable energy sector during the last year, reaching US$2.99 billion investment The Clean Energy Regulator (CER), a Government body responsible for accelerating carbon abatement for Australia, has recently published the results obtained during 2016...
Australia plans its first offshore wind farm
This renewable energy farm, that will cover 574-square kilometre area, will be situated in the Victoria state Renewable energy continues reaching milestones all over the world. Now, the turn is for Australia that, as the Victoria state government announced, are planing their first offshore wind farm of the country. "Start of the...
The first Smart City of Eastern Europe is in Poland
Gdynia´s city hall, in northern Poland, has announced that the city has become the first smart city in Eastern Europe At last, Eastern Europe has its first smart city. The Polish city of Gdynia, located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland, has become the first city of Poland, and of all Eastern Europe in fact, in...