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CNN Travel
London to create airport of the future with 'Internet of Things'
May 3, 2013
London City Airport wants to eradicate the many nuisances associated with flying.
Should they succeed, missing luggage, delayed flights and long security lines will be irritations of another era. Even wading through a sea of taxi drivers to find the cardboard placard that bears your name will be a thing of the past.
Ovum
London City Airport gets smart and shows channel development flightpath
April 2, 2013
City CIOs need to understand how technology can be used to make their arena more economically competitive. There is a school of thought that says that the main competitive edge for a city is not location but accessibility – and on a global stage that means the airports. Indeed, many cities are becoming transport hubs where the city supports the airport rather than the other way around.
Ovum
London City "Internet of Things" Trials
March 27, 2013
London City Airport will be used as a pilot site to test out hi-tech next-gen internet-based management strategies.
Ovum
Critical embarks on new project with Living PlanIT and London City Airport
March 26, 2013
Critical Software Technologies joins Living PlanIT and multi-national technology providers including Cisco, Hitachi, IBM and Philips, and associate partner London City Airport in a successful consortium bid for the UK government’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) ‘Internet of Things Demonstrator’ Competition. The project will demonstrate that where objects communicate with one another the data can be used to improve efficiency of services to the individuals.
Innovation Observatory
Innovation that crosses sector boundaries – software vendors take note : it can be done
March 14, 2013
Sometimes technological innovation of the kind that transcends sectoral boundaries is the result of chance, and sometimes it is the result of deliberate planning – an intentional ‘lift, drop and port’ exercise where an entrenched way of doing things in one sector is shown to be inefficient by comparison with an analogous situation in another sector.
BBC News
What if...you could design a city?
February 21, 2013
As part of its project on the cities of the future, the BBC asked a series of experts to explain their vision of where they would like to live in the future.
Buro Happold
Introduction to the Living PlanIT UOS™ Architecture, Open Standards and Protocols
February 13, 2013
It’s great to be invited to contribute to this edition of Buro Happold’s e-journal, The Living City. We’ve been working with some of their teams now for five years and the relationship has been tremendously valuable in shaping our thoughts on the application of technology to improve the sustainability of the built environment.
Tech Crunch
Springboard’s Internet Of Things Accelerator Now Comes With Kickstarter Baked In
January 2013
Springboard IoT, the Cambridge, UK accelerator aimed at startups in the Internet of Things space, is jumping on another popular bandwagon — albeit, one that makes a lot of sense — by adding crowdfunding as an option for the teams taking part in the 3 month program.
BBC News
Future tech: Smart fabrics and other forecasts
02 January 2013
Technology keeps surprising us, both by how quickly it moves and how slowly it develops. Where are our flying cars? Where are our household robots?
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UBM'S Future Cities
Top 20 Leaders in Urbanization
23 October 2012
Urban migration is the drumbeat behind the global cities movement. And urbanization leaders are rising to prominence across the spheres of real estate, technology, and sustainability.
Business Reporter
As the global population becomes increasingly urbanised, smart cities are pioneering ways of harnessing IT systems to manage resources more efficiently
30 September 2012
As it grows, the world’s population is increasingly migrating to cities. In China, 300 million people are predicted to move from rural to urban areas within the next 15 years. They will require an infrastructure equivalent to that of the existing United States – within just a few decades. This trend will be reflected across the globe – 70 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050, up from about half in 2009.
Newnet
Critical Software joins UK smart cities collaboration
05 October 2012
UK-based Critical Software has joined a group of international technology providers collaborating to create smart cities in the UK. The consortium is led by Living PlanIT and also includes Philips, Hitachi and McLaren Electronics Systems.
Future Perfect
Innovating to develop sustainable environments on an urban scale
2012
Every civilization has contended with powerful trends that have shaped how and where human settlements are built. Each has built its cities and expansions of those cities, with the best technology, materials and skills available at the time........continued on page 191.
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Kensington & Chelsea Today
Smarter Cities - Better Quality of Life
28 August 2012
A Formula One racing car is a fast beast driven to the extremes on the race track. An impressive sight. But less obvious is the way its every movement and stress to its (and the drivers) metabolism is monitored remotely. For the car is actually a mobile data hub with typically 125 sensors sending 750 million numbers back to the garage and to engineering monitors around the world during a race.
VIP Virtual
CONVÊNIO PARA CIDADES INTELIGENTES NA RMC FOI ASSINADO NA SEDE DO CIESP-CAMPINAS
26 June 2012
Com apresentação pública do programa Cidades Inteligentes, representantes da Fundação de Apoio à Capacitação em Tecnologia da Informação (Facti), da empresa europeia de tecnologia Living PlanIT e do Instituto Árvore da Vida, assinaram convênio para implantação do conceito piloto para as cidades da RMC.
AgemCamp
RMC terá o programa Cidades Inteligentes
23 June 2012
A Região Metropolitana de Campinas (RMC) é objeto de estudo para a implantação do programa Cidades Inteligentes. Um convênio assinado ontem no Ciesp-Campinas entre a Fundação de Apoio à Capacitação em Tecnologia da Informação (Facti), a empresa europeia de tecnologia Living Planit e o Instituto Árvore da Vida foi o pontapé inicial para conectar as 19 cidades da RMC. O objetivo é utilizar a tecnologia avançada para otimizar o uso dos recursos públicos e as soluções para os problemas enfrentados pelas cidades. A expectativa do grupo é apresentar um mapa das prioridades da RMC em quatro meses.
Facti
Estratégia para Cidades Inteligentes – Evento Gratuito
22 June 2012
O programa Estratégia para Cidades Inteligentes voltado para a Região metropoliltana de Campinas (RMC), será apresentado no dia 22 de junho, a partir de 8 horas, no auditório do Ciesp-Campinas. Esse programa será desenvolvido através de convênio entre a empresa europeia de tecnologia Living PlanIT, a Facti – Fundação de Apoio a Capacitação em Tecnologia da Informação e o Instituto Árvore da Vida, ambos com sede em Campinas. O evento é gratuito e aberto aos interessados.
Raconteur
Cities need smart thinking for a sustainable future
07 June 2012
Many see a smart city as one where a network of sensors brings together data to be analysed for the more effective management of its systems. Yet this alone will not solve a city's problems of finance, sustainability and the protection of it's citizen's health, security and wellbeing.
ACTUAL!DADES
Embaixada Britânica distingue empresas portuguesas
21 May 2012
O UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) organiza o evento UKTI Business Awards, iniciativa anual que distingue empresas e projetos portugueses que no último ano, e com o envolvimento do UKTI, investiram e expandiram os seus negócios no Reino Unido, entre as quais Critical Software, EDP Renováveis, Sacoor Brothers, Sogrape, entre outras.
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Smithsonian.com
Innovations: How human ingenuity is changing the way we live. WHEN CITIES RUN THEMSELVES
21 May 2012
The torch relay for the London Olympics began in England over the weekend. Officially, this hearkens back to the original Olympics in Ancient Greece, when a flame was lit to commemorate the theft of fire by Prometheus from top god Zeus. Unofficially, this is when the people running the Games go into panic mode because they have just over two months to make sure everything works.
Global Smart Grid Federation
London to test ‘smart city’ operating system
18 May 2012
Living Plan IT has developed its Urban operating system designed to power the smart cities of the future by connecting key services such as water, transport and energy. The company will be testing the new operating system in London.
Buro Happold
Global technology companies collaborate to create intelligent urban spaces
17 May 2012
Living PlanIT SA, the leading global developer of urban operating systems for ‘Smart’ Cities has announced partnerships with five leading international technology companies and signed an memorandum of understanding to work in partnership to create applications that will enhance the construction of smart cities in conjunction with Living PlanIT’s Urban Operating System. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in the presence of The Rt Hon David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science at the Digital Enterprise Centre on the Greenwich Peninsula. The presence of the Minister underlined the UK government’s commitment to promote and stimulate the high tech industries and jobs.
bigthink
Humanizing Technology Prize : The Nominees (Safety and Security)
16 May 2012
Living PlanIT is a company that aims to build the new, sustainable cities of the future.
HiddenWires
Living PlanIT Announces Partnerships to Create Smart Cities Based on its Urban Operating System
14 May 2012
Living PlanIT SA, the leading global developer of urban operating systems for ‘Smart’ Cities has announced partnerships with five leading international technology companies and signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to create applications that will enhance the construction of smart cities in conjunction with Living PlanIT’s Urban Operating System. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in the presence of The Rt Hon David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science, at the Digital Enterprise Centre on the Greenwich Peninsula. The presence of the Minister underlined the UK government’s commitment to promote and stimulate high tech industries and jobs.
The Wall Street Journal : TechEurope
London Trial for Smart City Operating System
08 May 2012
With increases in the number of connected services, including sensors as part of the so-called “Internet of things”, comes the possibility of creating super-networks linking them all together. Particularly in urban areas this offers enormous potential benefits.
IBM SmartPlanet Blog
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London tests our Smart City operating system
08 May 2012
London has become the trial city to test out a new operating system for smart grid technology.
According to a report provided by IDC, “Energy Insights Worldwide Utility Smart Grid Spending Forecast, 2010-2015″, expenditure on smart grid technology will increase globally by 2015. In the midst of its prediction that smart grid spending will increase by 17.4 percent from 2010 to 2015 — whereas overall spending will reach $46.4 billion — London will now host a new operating system that could be the future of powering cities through smart grid technology.
Bangkok Post : Business
The rise of the smart city, Part 5
08 May 2012
The successful development of the Smart City, which we have been discussing in recent columns, depends on a number of factors, including a Smart Economy, a Smart Environment and People who have been encouraged to make maximum use of all that a smart city can offer. In this article I will look at the fourth of the elements that comprise a Smart City, that of Smart Living.
Energy for London
London to test ‘smart city’ operating system
07 May 2012
An operating system designed to power the smart cities of the future will be put through its paces in London. With partners including Hitachi, Phillips and Greenwich council, it aims to use the Greenwich peninsula as a testbed for new technologies running on the system. The OS aims to connect key services such as water, transport, and energy.”
Korea IT Times
London to Test ‘Smart City’ Operating System
07 May 2012
An operating system designed to power the smart cities of the future will be put through its paces in London.
ComputerWeekly
London to test urban operating system
04 May 2012
London is to test an operating system developed to support the smart cities of the future to keep buildings, traffic and services running smoothly.
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TechWorld
UK government backs new ‘smart cities’ consortium
04 May 2012
Philips, McLaren Electronics and Hitachi Consulting are among a group of companies that have agreed to work together on technologies that will enable the construction of smart cities in the UK.
RFP Connect
Technology giants to sign exclusive Innovation deal with Digital Enterprise Greenwich
04 May 2012
Technology giants from across the globe will sign an innovative deal at The Royal Borough of Greenwich’s prestigious Digital Enterprise Greenwich Centre today, with the sole aim of furthering digital innovation in the UK.
BBC Technology News
London to test ‘smart city’ operating system
04 May 2012
An operating system designed to power the smart cities of the future will be put through its paces in London.
recombu
London to be test bed for Urban OS connected city system
04 May 2012
You might have hear a few things about the connected home; now get ready for the connected city.
PC Advisor
UK government backs new ‘smart cities consortium
04 May 2012
Technology companies are teaming up to help build smarter cities.
Construction Digital
PlanIT Valley – Building a Data-Driven City
30 April 2012
Portugal's upcoming smart city will incorporate information from over 100 million sensors to intelligently control urban infrastructure and more.
The Business Times
The Promise of 'smart' cities - by Ayesha Khanna
05/11/2011
Huge benefits can be reaped when IT forms the core infrastructure of cities. Care must be taken, however, that it remains 'generative'.
Economic Times
How smart technologies are drawing city of tomorrow and redrawing cities of today
03 November 2011
An operating system is the most vital piece of software in a computer. It makes the hardware components work together and, in large systems, ensures that programs running at the same time do not interfere with each other.
Die Welt
China's strategy in the competition of metropoleis - by Nina Trentmann
18 October 2011
A city that regulates its own temperature - via the Internet. In the competition among sites, China is relying on "smart cities". The people are not involved.
The Engineer
Urban OS sensor system could soon be running entire cities - by Sam Shead
04 October 2011
A new system of widely distributed sensors could soon be responsible for running entire cities.
BBC Technology News
Smart cities get their own operating system
30 September 2011
Cities could soon be looking after their citizens all by themselves thanks to an operating system designed for the metropolis.
PRWeb
Digital value chains to be developed and demonstrated with new government support
14 September 2011
The Technology Strategy Board (http://www.innovateuk.org) is to invest nearly £6 million of government funding in nine innovative strategic research and development projects and ground-breaking trials that will show how co-operation between digital infrastructure providers, content producers, users and software developers can be improved to earn revenue.
Bilan
Les villes veulent devenir intelligentes - by Fabrice Delaye
10 September 2011
De l'Angleterre au Portugal, Living PlanIT, une PME basée à Nyon, crée les villes du futur en emmenant dans son sillage les Cisco, Philips et autres Microsoft. ...
Portuguese American Journal
Paredes Smart City project wins World's Economic Forum Award – Portugal
06 September 2011
Living PlanIT, the Portuguese smart city initiative underway, was selected as one of the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers of 2012.
Wall Street Journal
Portuguese Smart City Wins WEF Global Award
05 September 2011
Living PlanIT, the Portuguese smart city initiative, was selected as one of the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers of 2012.
PR Week
Edelman wins five-year brief to handle comms for Portugal's PlanIT Valley deal
09 June 2011
The firm behind PlanIT Valley, Europe's largest smart city development, has called in Edelman to handle its product and b2b comms in a five-year contract.
Reuters
PlanIT Valley: A Blueprint for the Smart City
31 March 2011
New build smart cities are a phenomenon usually associated with Asia or the Middle East. Whether it is a showcase project like Songdo in South Korea or the massive new city development program being driven by the Chinese government, greenfield sites offer a chance to think afresh about how cities are designed, built, and operated. However, one of the most ambitious new city developments is about to begin in northern Portugal. PlanIT Valley is being built on a 1,700 hectare (4,000 acre) plot in the municipality of Paredes near Porto. The project is being driven by Living PlanIT, which is working closely with the Portuguese authorities and partners such as Cisco and Microsoft to develop an ambitious plan for a new type of urban development.
Fast Company
Microsoft Helping Break Ground on Cloud- Connected Homes in New Smart City
25 March 2011
The home of the future will be bedecked with smart sensors that send their data to the cloud so you can manage the house from afar--yes, this is a story we've heard before. But now Microsoft has joined a plan to build a smart city jammed with exactly these smart homes in Portugal. Living PlanIT, which calls itself "one of the world's leading smart city and urban development technology providers" has been working on a plan for a smart city in northern Portugal for quite a while--currently a 2013 unveiling looks likely. And its plans have been given a huge boost this week with news that Microsoft has signed up, bringing all sorts of MS tech to the table. This technology includes the Connected Government Framework and the Azure platform (more on this soon). Microsoft's former General Manager of Market Development and co-chair of its Business Development Forum is now CEO of PlanIt--which may have helped MS's decision to leap on board alongside other tech partners like Cisco.
IDTechEx
1 City, 100 million sensors
25 March 2011
Many of us have iPhones with a myriad of embedded sensors on them, allowing countless apps to be built on these sensory systems but crucially, many of these applications were never conceived when the device was put together. In many ways the PlanIT Valley project from the Living PlanIT team is very similar but instead of a few sensors there will be 100 million sensors deployed over 17 km2 – an area equivalent to Manhattan Island, New York City – to seamlessly embed and connect an entire city with Wireless Sensor Networks.
Engadet
1 City, 100 million sensors - by Vlad Savov
25 March 2011
A vision for how to make our cities smarter and more sustainable.
Wall Street Journal
Microsoft Powers Portuguese Smart City - by Ben Rooney
24 March 2011
Description on PlanIT- Valley and partnership with Microsoft.
Smart Meters
PlanIT Valley Project: A Model for Smart Cities of the Future - by Farouk Balouchi
23 March 2011
100 million sensors will be deployed over 6.5 square miles in Paredes.
Verdantix
PlanIT Valley Provides New Model For Smart City
17 February 2011
A technology firm that develops innovative and sustainable urban technologies, announced the selection of a 1,670 hectare site in the municipality of Paredes in Portugal as the location of a new sustainable urban development.
Property week
Quintain to explore new PlanIT
26 November 2010
Quintain has agreed to provide property advice to Living PlanIT, an urban technology company that plans to develop a 1,700 ha city in north Portugal.
CIOB (Charted Institute of Building)
Wembley City developer Quintain now on board for PlanIT Valley, Portugal's futuristic eco-city - by Rod Sweet
25 November 2010
The construction industry is not ready for the onslaught of competition it's just about to get.
The Portugal News Online
Portugal's intelligent green city by Brendan de Beer
16 October 2010
An investment that is expected to be in the region of at least 10 billion euros is set to result in the world's first environmentally sustainable city.
POPSCI
Planned Portuguese Eco-City Is Controlled By A Central Computer Brain - by Rebecca Boyle
11 October 2010
Ambitious green city project strives to emulate Silicon Valley's R&D culture.
New Scientist
The green city that has a brain - by Helen Knight
06 October 2010
An eco-city in Portugal that its makers are aiming to build by 2015 takes its cues from the nervous system.
US Infrastructure
Smart cities: Paving the way - by Al Bartlett
03 October 2010
As urban populations continue to grow at an unstable speed in inefficient contexts, smart cities are being looked up to as the saviour of next generation infrastructure – but what do they actually entail?
Fast Company
A City in the Cloud: Living PlanIT Redefines Cities as Software - by Greg Lindsay
20 August 2010
Living PlanIT Redefines Cities as Software.
Urenio
PlanIT Valley: Intelligent Cities - by Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos
03 August 2010
An Intelligent City in Portugal Urban and Regional Innovation.
Ultimate Cities Blog
Cisco joins Portuguese "smart city" project - by Peter Wise
19 July 2010
Success in acquiring Cisco as a partner to build a "Smart City" in Portugal near Paredes
TechCrunch
Web Services for Mother Earth: Living PlanIT's Vision for Data-Driven Cities - by Robin Wauters
07 July 2010
Steve Lewis wants to use data for good.
GizMag
Cisco and Living PlanIT team up to develop sustainable communities - by Paul Ridden
05 July 2010
Cisco to work with urban-scale sustainable technology company Living PlanIT on its creation.
CBR Computer Business Review
Cisco, Living PlanIT to collaborate for connected communities in Portugal - by CRB Staff Writer
29 June 2010
Providing future cities with technology that will enable new methods of hosting and managing services within public-private partnerships.
TechCrunch
Cisco and Living PlanIT Go Green With Sustainable City - by Robin Wauters
30 June 2010
Cisco intends to build a sustainable city in Portugal. The company will work with Living PlanIT.
Green Monk
Living PlanIT Brings Sustainable Urbanization Technologies to Market - by Tom Raftery
30 June 2010
IP around sustainable urbanisation.
TMCnet
Cisco Collaborates with Living PlanIT to Develop a Sustainable, Intelligent and Connected Community in Portugal - by Sandra Freitas
29 June 2010
Cisco today announced the signing of a strategic Letter of Intent.
TMCnet
Cisco Signs Deal with Living PlanIT to Provide Networking Infrastructure to World's Greenest City in Northern Portugal - by Madhubanti Rudra
29 June 2010
Euorpe's one the first smart cities is going to be born in Northern Portugal.
TMCnet
Cisco, Living PlanIT partner on connected community project - by Madhubanti Rudra
29 June 2010
Cisco has signed a letter of intent with Portuguese urban technology company Living PlanIT.
Green TMCnet
Cisco, Living PlanIT Partner On Green Tech - by Brendan B Reed
29 June 2010
Sustainable green development needs technology to make that happen.
busineesGreen.com
Cisco Cranks up Support for World's Smartest City - by James Murray
28 June 2010
Networking giant to provide smart infrastructure for Portugal's ambitious green metropolis.
busineesGreen.com
How green is your PlanIT Valley? - by James Murray
28 June 2010
Plans to build the world's greenest city in Portugal may be ambitious, but they are also surprisingly credible.
Expresso
How Parades attracted harvard's attention by Robert G. Eccles
06 February 2010
PlanIT Valley promises to be the first sustainable city from an economic, social, technological and environmental point of view
Econimco
MBA da Harvard Business School vai incluir 'case study' português by Robert G. Eccles
19 January 2010
The British professor Robert Eccles will be in Portugal during this week to study the "Silicon Valley" of Paredes.
Vida Economica
Planit Valley quer assegurar 5% do PIB nacional/ Planit Valley assurse 5% increase in National PIB by Robert G. Eccles
11 September 2009
Steve Lewis, antigo executivo da Microsoft, sobre o arrojado projecto para Paredes/ Steve Lewis, old excecutive of Microsoft to create a bold innovative project in Paredes.
Media Monitor
Paredes - Equipa da cidade inteligente já está a instalar-se/ Paredes -Team of the intelligent city is already to settle
07 August 2009
Livng PlanIT instala-se em Paredes e prepara apresentação de mais investidores/ PlanIT Livng installs in Paredes and preparing the presentation of more investors.
Porto Camara Municipal
Projecto de mobiliidade urbana nasce no Porto / Urban mobility project was born in Porto
07 July 2009
A colaboração entre a CMP e Living PlanIT pretende demonstrar como as novas tecnologias transformam a mobilidade na cidade/ The collaboration between CML and Living PlanIT aims to demonstrate how new technologies transform mobility in the city.
Jornal de Noticas
Tecnologia de ponta ajuda transite/ Cutting-edge technology helps transit by Ines Schreck
07 July 2009
Informação em tempo real/ Real-time information
OJE
Cidade inteligente 'Planit Valley' vai ser construida em Paredes até 2013/ Technology: Smart City 'Planit Valley' will be built by 2013 in Paredes
01 June 2009
Um investidor de capital de risco promete investir mais de dez mil milhões de euros numa cidade do futuro que poderá nascer em Paredes/ A venture capital investor promises to invest more than ten billion euros in a city of the future that may arise in Paredes.
Noticias.rtp.pt
Cidade inteligente 'Planit Valley' vai ser construida em Paredes até 2013/ Technology: Smart City 'Planit Valley' will be built by 2013 in Paredes
01 June 2009
Um investidor de capital de risco promete investir mais de dez mil milhões de euros numa cidade do futuro que poderá nascer em Paredes/ A venture capital investor promises to invest more than ten billion euros in a city of the future that may arise in Paredes.
AEIOU
Tecnologia: Cidade inteligente 'Planit Valley' vai ser construida em Paredes até 2013/ Technology: Smart City 'Planit Valley' will be built by 2013 in Paredes
01 June 2009
Um investidor de capital de risco promete investir mais de dez mil milhões de euros numa cidade do futuro que poderá nascer em Paredes/ A venture capital investor promises to invest more than ten billion euros in a city of the future that may arise in Paredes.