Smart Cities Viewpoints

It is often forgotten that North American rural communities have the same cybersecurity challenges as large cities.  Cyber-attacks, most frequently in the form of ransomware, made big headlines when they affected cities like Atlanta and Baltimore.  The Atlanta attack, for example, disrupted many key city services.  Various sources report the total cost of that attack at between $12 million and $17 million.  While attacks on large US cities have had significant financial and operational impact, these same kinds of attacks, on a much smaller scale, can have a much more significant impact on smaller, more rural communities.

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The world of smart cities and intelligent buildings has yet to rally around a single cybersecurity standard, especially at the operational level.  Meanwhile, cyber-risk remains a real threat to the world of smart cities and buildings, with more and more products and systems becoming IoT-enabled e

In the latest installment of ARC's Smart Cities Podcast, we speak to Chris Davis of Cimcon Lighting a provider of open smart city platforms.

We have many opportunities to capture energy savings in our industrial, commercial, and residential buildings.  The bottom line is that Smart Buildings save energy!

In a new installment of ARC's Smart Cities Podcast, ARC's transportation analyst Eddie Fidler speaks with MaaS America founder Tim McGuckin about his vision of a Mobility-as-a-Service ecosystem for the United States.  

In the latest installment of ARC's Smart Cities Podcast, we speak to John Petze of Project Haystack, which is an open smart city initiative aimed at providing common context to the vast amounts of data being generated by IoT enabled applications in the world of smart cities and buildings. 

Lights are omnipresent within every facility and surrounding built environments, with their placement providing an unrivaled vantage point to perceive the activities beneath them.  When static lighting becomes networked and intelligent, packaged sensors enable systems to become dynamic and responsive.  As LED lighting systems become integrated with building automation platforms that utilize shared historians and open architectures, broader synergies will emerge.

Welcome to the next episode of ARC's Smart Cities Podcast, today Jim Frazer, VP Smart Cities and Eduard Fidler, Transportation Analyst interview ARC's own Rick Rys on the impact of electrical energy technology developments in the smart city e

In this episode ARC smart cities analyst Eduard Fidler is interviewed by Jim Frazer on the subject of electric vehicles and their impact on fleet operations including taxi and delivery services.