Smart City/Smart Utility

Smart City/Smart Utility content features highlights from Black & Veatch's 2016 Strategic Directions: Smart City/Smart Utility report including subject matter expert insights, survey response trends and in-depth commentary on current industry issues.

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Public Safety LTE Integration with Smart City Initiatives

Mar 28, 2017 10:00 AM ET

As the communication technologies leveraged by the public safety sector advance, the intersection with smart city initiatives becomes all the more inevitable. Technological advances afforded by broadband long-term evolution (LTE) networks have changed how first responders, city and county officials, public agencies and transportation fleets communicate and gather data to better serve their communities. Learn more in the Black & Veatch 2017 Strategic Directions: Smart City/Smart Utility Report.

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Smart Cities Need Smart Master Planning Processes

May 2, 2017 10:00 AM ET

As governments consider where to spend their smart city funding, they may initially center on the critical building blocks of a smart city but often become subject to short-term budget priorities. To this point, responses to the 2017 Strategic Directions: Smart City/ Smart Utility Report survey suggest a vexing conundrum: What comes first, the budget or the plan?

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Smart Cities Will Depend on Smarter Movement of People and Goods

Apr 4, 2017 10:00 AM ET

One of the challenges in smart city transportation is to be able to go from point A to point B, while reducing the number of cars on the market, and also being able to use existing public transportation.

Maryline Daviaud Lewett, Business Development Manager, Black & Veatch, discusses how cities are partnering with the private sector to optimize these services.

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Data and Planning Drive the Growth of Smart Cities and Utilities

Feb 1, 2017 9:00 AM ET

The Black & Veatch 2017 Strategic Directions: Smart City/Smart Utility Report investigates the progress made by communities and utilities as they continue their evolution toward smarter infrastructure. Around the globe, cities and utilities are beginning to see tangible results from preliminary efforts and are gaining confidence in what a smart city can be.

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Cities Introduce Smart Programs in Divergent Manners

Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 18:30

Cities across the globe have followed multiple tracks in their quest to become “smart.” It isn’t a question of right or wrong. However, two key themes are emerging in their approach – either start with a pilot project that produces quick results, or undertake a comprehensive master plan that strategically lays out the coming years and decades.

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Why Data Analytics Must Be Part of Your Next Infrastructure Project

Tuesday, July 5, 2016 - 18:00

It used to be that the quality of infrastructure was measured by its lifespan. Water systems might last a century, and power plants at least half that. Those were measurements of solid assets, well worth the investment. But today, dependable infrastructure is just not enough. While it must be resilient and have an extended life cycle, now it must also be intelligent and communicate with other systems in ways that were unknown only a few years ago.

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First Hydrogen Fueling Station Network in U.S. Now Stretches Across California

Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 17:30

It’s the classic chicken-or-the-egg question. If attempting to revolutionize the auto industry, do you introduce the car or the supporting infrastructure first? For Joel Ewanick, the answer was obvious – get the infrastructure in place.

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Leaders Opting for Dual Paths to Smart City Development

Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 16:30

Adoption of smart city initiatives appears to be dividing most city governments into two camps – those that opt for incremental add-on or pilot programs, and those that pursue some form of root-level master planning. There are advantages and disadvantages to each course.

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Utilities Progressively Move Toward Automation Programs to Boost Reliability

Thursday, June 23, 2016 - 17:00

Old and obsolete equipment and lack of integration of automation into the overall enterprise – coupled with reliability mandates – have created an environment ripe for the adoption of distribution automation and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) programs for utilities.

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Utilities Can Better Secure Customer Relationships by Offering More Distributed Energy Resources

Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 15:00

As falling costs for distributed energy resources reduce the barriers to entry, new players like solar and battery storage developers are establishing relationships with utility customers.

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Utilities Show Growing Interest in Drone Technology

Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 18:00

The interest in drone technology by electric, water and natural gas utilities is growing at a rapid pace, and this relatively new application for utilities seems positioned to eventually become a best practice as the usage is woven into more projects.

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Cities Are ‘Smartening Up’ for the Future with IoT

Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 13:40

The Internet of Things (IoT) – the concept that all devices that can be connected will be connected – is starting to take root in cities in various parts of the globe. IoT is being used to better manage energy, water, transportation and safety – but what exactly does this look like in first-adopter cities?

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Data Analytics is Key to Developing a Long-Term Smart City Roadmap

Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 17:00

Communities that were “first movers” in the smart city arena are ending their test phases and expanding to a second phase, yet it is clear that communications technologies and data analytics should be adopted to help lay the groundwork for a broader roadmap.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Building Smart Cities Will Require Creative Funding Approaches

Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 15:00

Smart City/Smart Utility

Videos from Client

Public Safety LTE Integration with Smart City Initiatives

Smart Cities Need Smart Master Planning Processes

Smart Cities Will Depend on Smarter Movement of People and Goods

Data and Planning Drive the Growth of Smart Cities and Utilities

Content from this campaign

Cities Introduce Smart Programs in Divergent Manners

Why Data Analytics Must Be Part of Your Next Infrastructure Project

First Hydrogen Fueling Station Network in U.S. Now Stretches Across California

Leaders Opting for Dual Paths to Smart City Development

Utilities Progressively Move Toward Automation Programs to Boost Reliability

Utilities Can Better Secure Customer Relationships by Offering More Distributed Energy Resources

Utilities Show Growing Interest in Drone Technology

Cities Are ‘Smartening Up’ for the Future with IoT

Data Analytics is Key to Developing a Long-Term Smart City Roadmap

Building Smart Cities Will Require Creative Funding Approaches

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