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The promise and peril of digital urban mobility

Corporate Knights

In 2015, a Helsinki start-up unveiled a plan for something it called “mobility-as-a-service,” or MaaS, based on ideas that had been developed in a 2014 masters' thesis at a Finnish university. It was an idea that seemed to have all the right ingredients for the tech-saturated world of 21 st century urban mobility.

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Transforming Connectivity

3BL Media

And, finally, we’re using 5G innovation to enable massive Internet of Things (mIoT) that seamlessly connects virtually everything from smart home devices to smart cities. The study also revealed that the 5G value chain (including OEMs, operators, content creators, app developers and consumers) could alone support up to 22.8

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What’s the Next Evolution of IoT?

Cisco CSR

Energy and utilities, agriculture, government, smart cities, and healthcare will account for 90 percent of NB-IoT and LTE-M connections over that time. The device is manufactured, tested, shipped with the standard factory configuration, installed in a desired location with peripherals connected, and powered on.

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IoT news of the week for March 25, 2022

Stacey Higginbotham

Sensorbee chooses Piera System’s chip for more accurate air quality measurements: Sensorbee AB will put Piera’s chip on its outdoor air quality monitors for smart city deployments. This is the top-tier developer kit configuration. The company says it plans to ship the first batch of its Pycom miners in June.

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The Potential for Data-Driven Policymaking in Africa: Success Stories Across the Continent

Sustainable Development Network

“ Policymaking without data is a rudderless ship.” This African Statistics Day, we’ve highlighted a few of the noteworthy cases in which data-driven decision-making is improving development outcomes and decision-making on the continent. Indeed, data and statistics are fundamental to improving evidence-based decision-making.