Driving the future of smart cities with IoT
Who knew 10 years ago that small sensors would make a big idea like smart cities even bigger?
The concept of smart cities has been around for nearly a decade. It’s always been about delivering better, more efficient and affordable services at the level of government that has the closest connection to constituents’ daily lives. But it has gone through some dramatic twists and turns with the emergence of key enablers like the internet of things.
Improbable but true: the first IoT device was a connected toaster. But the idea of connecting sensors to everyday devices that collect and transmit data on the item’s status and operation has become an incredibly powerful business tool, with 8.4 billion connected things in use worldwide in 2017, according to Gartner. Read more…