More than 70% of global carbon emissions come from cities, making metro regions the starting point for decarbonization efforts. To tackle climate change, city planners must pay close attention to the characteristics of the energy grid, building infrastructure, transportation, and waste management. In this post, we walk you through how to make a city more sustainable through these four key areas.
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The smart city landscape is quite fragmented and presents some challenges, so standardization is incredibly vital to successful solutions implementation. Part of that much-needed standardization are Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which set the benchmark to strive for. By knowing what results smart city deployments should be sustaining, city planners can identify their strengths and weaknesses, and make the most informed smart city management decisions.
The following market trends came from ABI Research’s Smart Apartments and Multiple Dwelling Units research analysis report.
Smart home technolgies have traditionally been offered by providers to homeowners in the Business-to-Consumer (B2C) space. However, within the last 5 years, there has been a shift toward offering smart devices and software to apartment owners/managers, with a Business-to-Business (B2B) marketing angle. The age of smart apartment solutions is well underway.