What do Smart Cities Look Like in 2020?

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3 min readFeb 9, 2020

The latest podcast episode and best articles from this week, curated by the IoT For All Team.

This Week’s Podcast Episode

What do Smart Cities Look Like in 2020?

Sanjeet Pandit, Senior Director for BD & Head of Smart Cities at Qualcomm, shares the newest developments in smart cities and what really goes into the development and adoption of smart city applications.
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This Week’s Best Reads

IoT: Transforming the Agricultural Sector
IoT-driven agriculture could help farmers produce more high-quality food than traditional agriculture to meet the world’s growing food demand and nutritional needs.

LTE Triangulation for Indoor Asset Tracking
LTE is used as a fallback for when other technologies are ineffective, making it ideal for indoor asset tracking solutions when reliability is important but accuracy isn’t a major requirement.

Video’s Pivotal Role in IoT
Data generated by video has the potential to be transformed from reactionary and investigative uses to allow users to take a more proactive approach to business operations and management.

Five Things We’re Reading

1 — Engadget: Check Point Research released its findings that the ZigBee networking protocol has left devices, including the Philips Hue light bulbs, open to attack.

2 — The Verge: The White House and several tech companies are working on common engineering standards that would curb reliance on Huawei hardware.

3 — Tech Crunch: MIT presented RFocus, a new “smart surface” that uses 3,000 antennas to boost signal strength for IoT and network-connected devices.

4 — CNET: TrapX Security estimates 200 million IoT devices are being targeted by a malware campaign now that Microsoft no longer supports Windows 7.

5 — Fierce Wireless: The FCC will announce its position on a C-band plan this week as tech policy organizations urge quick action to compete with China.

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