Manu Arenas, Author at thesmartcityjournal.com

DES 2016: The first show devoted to digital transformation

DES 2016 is the first edition of this DT event, and it shares a certain parallelism with another event born only a few years ago: Smart City World Expo. This event took place when the trends around Smart Cities become a reality. The event was the response to a quite urgent need: shape the Smart…

Digital Cities, ICT, Innovation

Telefonica’s Smart Heritage

Technology comes to science´s aid, seeking crucial answers that may provide ways to preserve the invaluable cultural heritage of Spain

Big Data, Cloud, M2M, Tourism

Internet in non-urban areas

There’s a lot of hype about smart cities in Spain. This is a pioneering country in the field, with a solid organization that joins together councils and companies towards the use of ICT as a tool to arrange and optimize the operation of cities, and to improve the citizens’ quality of life.

Featured Article, ICT, Internet

Critical Communications. Crucial to organize smart cities

We have discussed in other occasions about Critical Communications. Since then, technology changes have been quick, and new players have come to the solutions arena. Urgency is utmost, and development and decision making times are shortening as technology accelerates its innovation processes.

Big Data, Communication Networks, Data Gathering, Featured Article, Internet, WiFi Networks

Internet of Things behind the scenes

IoT has become “the now big thing” in the smart city ecosystem. The Internet of Things started from M2M, and it has been adopted in a widespread manner by companies involved in the deployment of infrastructure and services for connected cities. Companies like Vodafone and Telefónica have been working for years in the Machine to…

Big Data, Internet, IoT, M2M

Drones: very serious toys

Unmanned aerial vehicles have gone through an outstanding development in the last few years. 2013 was a turning point in the adoption of such devices. Back in 2009, Chris Anderson (editor of Wired magazine) founded the company 3DRobotics and DIY Drones, as a pioneer in a field that had only been explored by large companies,…

Smart Cities in the age of “the cloud”

In the last months, large companies such as Google, Amazon or Microsoft have significantly shifted their businesses towards the cloud. By doing so, they confirmed a currently existing strategy or else defined new company policies

Big Data, Cloud, ICT, New Technologies, Smart Cities

3D Printing: The medium for smart industries

The industrial production systems, maintained to date under the premises of mass production and globalisation, are starting to show their weakness and are leaving the door open to alternatives such as 3D printing. One of the foundations of Smart Cities is logistics and supplying consumer goods, both for infrastructures and for the people living in…

Interview to Stephen Brobst. CTO at Teradata

“Strategies depend on the particular projects and approaches undertaken by each company “For big companies with huge amounts of data to work on, the cloud is not profitable from an economic point of view” At the Teradata Universe event we had the opportunity to talk to Stephen Brost, Teradata CTO, along with several international press…

BiciMad: Last in Line

BiciMad is a good case study to analyze public bicycle services. As the last to arrive, it may enable us to detect where the trends lie, or identify elements of novelty in the area of smart cities. Unfortunately, we spent several weeks trying to contact the press department or the people in charge at BiciMad,…

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