TIS Weekly (#53): How Smart Can A City Be?
[June 12th, 2016]
Smart Cities are our theme of the month. An interesting topic. How can technology help the city to be a better place to live, work, go out, et cetera. Help us build the best collection of videos on the subject, submit your videos! These are three examples. A lot more to follow!
Expert Selection
Joan Torres on promising projects
Joan Torres is a software engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Labcities.com, a global marketplace for successful smart city projects connecting talented individuals and organizations from both the smart city supply and demand side. For TIS he chose 3 promising smart city initiatives: The Things Network, Ethereum and Hyperloop.
Smart Cities
Crowd movement, crowd control
Of course Smart Cities is a broad topic. It can go from sensors that tell the city to empty a trash can to apps that tell you where there is parking space to …. Well to do crowd control for example. Mass Motion is impressive software to simulate crowd movements to organize and design cities and events better!
Smart Cities
This is how public service will change
In a smart city everything and everyone is connected. That is going to have great impact on our public services for example. IBM shows a vision of a world in 2020 where health and social care will benefit from new technology.
Those are only three of the examples of smart cities. There are many more nice videos on TIS. But please help us build the best collection. Keep on submitting, keep on voting, keep on innovating. Questions? Remarks? Ideas? hello@tis.tv is the address! From TIS with love, Erwin Blom.
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Interested in more Smart City newsletters?
- TIS Picks — The 5 Best Videos On Smart Cities
- What A (Smart) Month!
- Expert Selection: Joan Torres — Promising Smart City Projects
- More about: Smart Cities — Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon!
