Smart Cities

Kirk Steudle, the former director of the Michigan Department of Transportation, knows a thing or two about building smart cities. Speaking with Digital Trends before his retirement, Steudle shares with us what cities need to do if they want to get smarter.

E-bike and e-scooter usage has increased in popularity with commuters and tourists, but they have also become troublesome for city planners, not to mention dangerous. Providing these two-wheeled alternative transports while keeping users safe, is what smart cities are grappling with.

Honda and the city of Marysville, Ohio are working on creating a smart intersection. The goal would not only help better direct the flow of traffic, it could also help save the lives of pedestrians and cyclists.

Though Kansas City didn't win the Smart Cities Challenge, it's using sensors to gather data and make decisions.

Barcelona doesn’t just want to dazzle techies with its smart-city technology; it wants to help every citizen, young and old, live better.

In Georgia, a section of Interstate 85 has become a real-world laboratory for new technologies that could be incorporated in future road constructions. See why The Ray is the future of highways.

New research by non-for-profit global security association ISACA has revealed that security experts believe that malware, ransomware, and denial of service attacks continue to pose a threat to smart city infrastructure, including the energy sector, communications, and financial services.

Thanks to investments from Sprint and Cisco, Kansas City has just made its bid to become one of the United States' smartest cities.

As urban populations grow, there becomes an increased need to revamp our infrastructures. These smart cities are building the urban centers of the future.

We review the new Google Pixel Buds earbuds, upcoming Samsung S9 may be going small, Bill Gates buys big plot for smart city project.

Bill Gates' investment group purchased 24,800-acre development outside of Phoenix, Arizona to build a smart city.

A futuristic concept called the Starling Crossing uses object tracking and LEDs to create a smart crosswalk.

Status.pr is a website the Puerto Rican government set up so citizens can see how the recovery effort is going.

Also today: Amazon may be getting ready to launch a message/chat/social media app, Kansas City moves forward with their 'smart city' plans.

New method for embedding audio and data in regular FM radio signals ushers in an age of singing posters and talking shirts.

As a part of its effort to build a portfolio of products that empower smarter cities, Ford has opened its first "hub" in New York

The charge was to optimize the city of Belfort's urban transportation system. The challenge was to do it quickly and without great cost.

Cisco wants to bring its networking hardware, software, and expertise to India, where it plans to augmented 100 cities with connected systems.

This summer, Chicago has moved forward with installing smart devices on street lights geared towards monitoring the city's constantly changing vitals.

Sidewalk Labs documents reveal plans in which cities would rid themselves of public transportation and instead subsidize travel through services like Uber.

The FCC revealed today that it's fining telecommunications company Smart City for jamming personal hotspots at convention centers.

GE is marrying the ordinary lightbulb with the Internet of Things, adding sensors to direct drivers to available spaces, give warnings in the event of a hurricane through a public-address speaker, direct first-responders, and more.

If you think cities are crowded now, just wait until 2050, when 66 percent of people will live in an urban area. To help deal with the increased demand, cities are already getting smarter.

Microsoft's working on a clever piece of wearable tech that's designed to help blind people navigate around cities, and open up the world around them.