Connected Cities

City Connected: Janice “JJ’’ Conley. Ella Jordan and Riley Berg. Jack Schonherr and Anthony Serrano. Their stories are uniquely theirs and yet they’re ours, too: Each is a piece of our San Francisco. …

Apps in the mobility space generate massive amounts of data — how does the decentralized architecture of blockchain provide solutions for it? On April 19 Shamir Karkal interviewed Benjamin Diggles, VP of Business Development at Constellation Labs, to gain insight on the role blockchain is playing in the mobility space. …

Leaders came together to build a foundation for the connected cities of tomorrow Before 2017 draws to a close, I wanted to take a look back at one of my favorite smart cities events from the year: the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona. Microsoft joined thousands of city…

By Christopher Konrad // CEO Lately, we’ve been thinking about connected or smart cities as part of an internal design initiative we call #OurTown. Our second topic at StreetJive last night was aimed at better connecting San Diego and Tijuana. Taking an area of focus for connected cities, Safety, we…

Imagine a “fitness tracker” for an entire city — Imagine a “fitness tracker” for an entire city. Last summer, data scientists and architects in Chicago installed as many as 50 modular and interactive boxes attached to light poles in the Loop area of the city in order to track environment conditions. Inside each box, about a dozen sensors continuously…