The summit, that will be celebrated in The International Centre in Toronto, will gather the main experts of Smart Cities during two days During two days Toronto will be the hotpoint of Smart Cities thanks to the Smart Cities World Forum, that will be celebrated from the 7th to the 8th in The International Centre of the city. The event, that will combine expert conferences with different workshops and activities, has the aim on "educating people towards smart cities and urban planning techologies, strive for innovation ,promote business and connect thousands of smart city experts from around the globe", as they announce on their website. Conference Topics During the conference, some trendy issues like Smart Grids, Smart Agriculture, Smart Transportation, Industrial IoT, Smart & Green Buildings, Smart Health, Smart PAyments, Smart Governance/E-Government,...
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Hong Kong has started a smart street lighting pilot project
The Chinese city has the aim on transforming the street lighting into 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...