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I’d like to close this long rambling on data economy in the smart city landscape by calling for providing visibility to citizens on the city life in an understandable way.  We have data on a variety of city life aspect, its population distribution, the availability of resources, the use being made …

The involvement of citizens is crucial and their awareness of the city life-pulse, and to its evolution, can at the same time change their behaviour thus making the overall city smarter. Data are a crucial bridge between citizens and their city. If I know that it would be quicker to …

In Trento it is 38° (100.4F) and it is getting unbearable. No wonder that this news caught my eyes. Researchers at San Diego University of California are creating a fabric that can adapt its heat conductivity in such a way to keep the skin temperature at 93°F. This might still seem on the …

D-Wave is for some the very first commercial quantum computer, for others it is just an imitation of the real thing supporting only a subset of the characteristics of a quantum computer. It is produced by D-Wave Systems, in California, and it is being used by universities and by companies. …

Stimulating awareness of the potential of the data economy in a smart city context can be done in two ways: an active, in a participative and in a passive way. The active way means to find ways to engage people in using data to create value. At the Italian Node …

Let’s suppose we live in a city with open data and that these data, partly related to objects partly to people, can be exploited by third parties. The kind of services and the way a city can get smarter are amazing. Look at the project DriveWave by the Senseable Cities …

At the beginning of this century, around 2002, researchers came up with a new display technology, NED – Nano Emissive Display, based on carbon nano tubes. Motorola actually demonstrated a display a few inches wide made of these nano tubes and Sony expressed the interest of using this technology forecasting its …

On July 9th IBM has announced the production of the first 7nm chip. This is the result of a 3B$ initiative, the Chip Grand Challenge, launched last year. There have been plenty of "news" over the web outlining and commenting this result but the one I liked most was on ExtremeTech. 7 nm is …

Once a city has created an Open Data Framework, and provides data related to the city the whole point is to stimulate third parties to leverage on those data for reasons that are not related to the ones that have led to the production of those data.  As I noted …

One of the EIT Digital Partners, UCL, has studied a variety of ways to harvest data and to process these data to grasp the soul of a city, to understand what is going on by observing its citizen. They have considered over 600 data sets, and several of these are …