Light + Building
The world’s leading trade fair for lighting and building services technology
Digital future meets design hotspot: Light + Building addresses the themes of tomorrow. From 18 to 23 March more than 2,600 exhibitors will be presenting their innovative products in the fields of lighting, electrical engineering as well as home and building automation in Frankfurt am Main. Please come visit us at Hall 5.0, Stand D29. We will be demonstrating 3D streetmapping. #AI #Security #SmartCity #Traffic #WiFi #Recycling
Google parent Alphabet is building a model smart city — but will people want to live there?
High rents. Long commutes. Crowds, pollution and traffic. Is this your experience of city living? From e-bikes to congestion charges and from pop-up urinals to outdoor gyms, experts have spent decades trying to improve the quality of life in our cities. Now the company that owns Google has chosen the quayside area in Toronto — one of the largest underdeveloped urban spaces in North America — to start over and build a “smart city” from scratch. https://medium.com/world-economi
How Australia's A$49bn internet network came to be ridiculed
In 1872, rugged, frontier Australia was lauded for overcoming the tyranny of distance to connect itself to the world via the "bush telegraph", a two-year project stringing 3,200km (2,000 miles) of wire through the outback that became part of the nation's folklore. By contrast today, while striving to be seen as an "innovation nation", Australia stands condemned, even ridiculed, for its latest drive for connectivity: a modern, fast internet network. http://www.bbc.com/news/wor