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This is just the beginning of a series of articles that will tackle various urban design issues. The main objective of these articles is to explain how smart solar street lighting can improve urban planning and design of public infrastructures on one hand and how compatible should solar powered outdoor lights be with urban environments to fit each specific project location on the other hand. Both of these aspects are important in order to achieve a cohesive urban landscape that will increase public safety, quality of services, lighting performance and energy efficiency.

Not content with its reputation as world capital of peace and justice, the capital of the Netherlands is now sharpening its profile in cyber-security. The Hague Security Delta (HSD), a unique public-private partnership funded mainly by the municipality, was launched in 2014 as the national innovation centre and leading security cluster in Europe. Creating products and services to combat global menaces, such as organized crime and terrorism, HSD is set to enhance The Hague’s status as Europe's cyber-guardian. Read about the rising stars of cybersecurity among an ecosystem of 60 in The Smart Citizen.

Why not modernize your Municipal lighting? Besides savings in energy, you save the environment and offer safe and reliable public lighting for your community. This blog post lists several lighting solutions that a city or municipality can implement to increase its energy efficiency and cut down its electrical costs.

Battery Management is key to Solar Street Lighting performance. Placing solar batteries underground improves their life cycles due to lower temperature variations. Read our blog to learn more smart techniques on battery management.

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Towering new Amsterdam facility will offer fast, secure route to the digital edge.

Need access to high-speed, cloud interconnected data? Then head to Adelaide…

The City of Adelaide is getting ready to construct a transformational ten gigabit fibre-optic network that will deliver lightning fast data speeds to the city. In what will be an Australian-first, the network will ‘interconnect’ to cloud-based data centres across the globe, enabling synchronous data speeds that are virtually unachievable with traditional internet services.

Peter Krijnsen, Director of UvA Ventures, explains why Amsterdam Science Park should be a powerhouse for new and innovative companies.

The Nuon Solar Team, a team of 16 students of the TU Delft, have build their own world class solar racer: the Nuna9. Check out the greatly designed car with its innovative techniques. The team will compete in October during the World Solar Challenge in Australia, defending their title as reigning World Champions Solar Racing.

What will tomorrow’s cities look like and how do we get there? From stamping out “zombie” technologies to building regional coalitions, four municipal technology leaders shared their vision of what’s coming next at the recent Smart Cities Week Silicon Valley.

Pretty impressing list by our friends in Eindhoven!

To solve modern city problems like traffic congestion and air pollution, city governments need to think different. Here is an eight-minute documentary on how Palo Alto, California, is using technology to create a better life for its citizens. An interview with the smart city leaders of Palo Alto.

In this video the smart city leaders of Palo Alto explain about their smart city initiatives, being Smart City Hub member Jonathan Reichental, ph.D,, CIO of the city, Greg Sharff, Mayor, James Keene, City Manager and Chris Caravalho, IT Project Services Manager.

Singapore and Siemens aim to join forces in a drive to make the Southeast Asian city-state a “smart nation.” As a result, Singapore will be the first country in the world to pilote MindSphere – Siemens’ open, cloud-based operating system for the Internet of Things – to digitalize its infrastructure as much as possible. Siemens is supporting this master plan by setting up a digitalization hub. The hub was inaugurated on July 11, 2017 in parallel events in Singapore and at Siemens’ headquarters in Munich.

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If you can control it, then you own it. This is the motto of our new webinar video which demonstrates how smart technology contributes to off-grid system optimization and increase in energy efficiency of solar street lights. Energy savings, increased ROI and off-grid system reliability facilitates the implementation of solar street light initiatives and projects. The main goal is to ensure that users have continuous LED light performance all year long while generating energy from renewable sources.

The city of Vancouver wants to be the greenest city in the world by 2020. As part of this ambition it has adopted a zero-emissions building plan. Meaning that each new building should be powered, heated and cooled without any net greenhouse gas emissions. This move puts the city at the forefront of the green building movement. To figure out how to do this the city is looking at European initiatives and technologies in the area of sustainable building, particularly at the Dutch methods used. This opens a door of big opportunity for the private sector.

In the next six months the Dutch Consulate-General in Vancouver supports various initiatives of Dutch companies in western Canada. In January 2018 the Canadian Green Building Conference organizes a mission to the Netherlands to learn more about the Dutch technologies being used. More details on this mission will follow this summer.

For more information on the opportunities for green building in western Canada or on the mission in January please contact Nadieh Wesseling: VAN-EZ@minbuza.nl.

Amsterdam Smart City is receiving more requests from international delegations interested in exchanging experiences and establishing collaborations on smart city topics.

We are looking for experts, companies and start-ups in our community who would like to share their knowledge, expertise and services with these visiting delegations.

If you are interested then please email cornelia@amsterdamsmartcity.com with answers to the following questions:
1. Which delegation you would like to meet with?
2. Do you prefer to meet with the group at the Amsterdam Smart City location at the Marineterrein or at your office?
3. What times are you available to meet with the group?
4. A short description of your presentation / product and how this information will benefit the visiting delegation.

Summary of requests:

1. Delegation overview: National Association of Young Entrepreneurs // 17 young leaders // Focus on social digital innovation, social entrenreunuership, circular economy, sustainable development // Visit 2-3 Aug

Delegation summary: This group of Young Entrepreneurs is on a study visit of the Netherlands and Belgium to explore successful examples of social entrepreneurship with a focus on circular economy and sustainable development.

2. Delegation overview: Germany // 8 municipal mobility professionals // Focus on smart mobility and cycling-inclusive planning // Visit on Aug 1 or in September

Delegation summary: This is a visit by the City of Leverkusen Mobility Department, including the Mobility Manager with a focus on: 1. Promotion of electric mobility, parking regulation, tax benefits, 2. Promotion of bicycle-mobility and facilities, 3.How municipalities/ local councils and provinces organize their mobility management

3. Delegation overview: Finland // Focus area redevelopment, master planning, flexible and circular urban development // Visit 22-23 Sept

Delegation summary: This delegation is leading the development of Hiedanranta in Tampere, Finland. Their key topics of interest are: 1. flexible city concepts implementing new circular solutions; 2. Circular construction/built environment, 3. Mobility: how to enable green transport & car sharing, 4. Furthering circular business models, sharing economy solutions, wellbeing, social equality and diversity (enabled by smart solutions), 5. urban food production 6. communicating and branding circular solutions to residents, visitors, companies and investors.

4. Delegation overview: Japan // Visit by Toshiba Toko Meter Systems // Focus on smart meters // Visit on 4 Oct.

Delegation summary: This delegation is interested in: 1. Smart meters and energy-saving devices and 2. Micro-grids and vehicle-to-grid applications.

5. Delegation overview: France // Focus on smart / energy efficient buildings // Visit on 6 or 13 Oct

Delegation summary: This is a visit by a group of architects and engineers from EDF (French energy supplier) interested in energy efficient and healthy buildings / built environment at Zuidas.

If you have any questions or would like further information about this program please email cornelia@amsterdamsmartcity.com.

With regards to many smart city programs worldwide, the time has come to move from the drawing board to the nuts and bolts of program implementation. A recent report by Deloitte suggests that of the total investment required for Smart Cities only 20% of the funding will be provided by the central and state governments while the bulk of the remaining funds (80%) has to come from the private sector. Given this scenario, will the private sector be able to rise to the occasion and see value in investing such staggering amount of funds? Alternatively, is there a possibility to reduce some of this investment without compromising outcomes?

This is the time to bring in innovation that cuts down cost drastically but at the same time, delivers results.

Here are nine instances of innovation in Smart Cities with minimal costs:

Western cities have done a better job of integrating technology into their infrastructure than the new wave of Asian smart cities, according to architect and television presenter Jason Pomeroy.

Singapore-based Pomeroy, the architect behind Asia's first zero-carbon house, claims that Barcelona and Amsterdam are far more successful examples of a smart city than places like Songdo, the new hi-tech satellite city in South Korea.

In a world where growth is driven by sustainable development.
We are for alternatives of social development and that aim at a global well-being.
Thus, cinema, therefore, has been shown to be an important activity, because in addition to being a form of expression, an art, also involves the participation of many resources, and therefore, generates an economic movement, as well as jobs and income, whereas Can also foster social development through new forms of interaction between people, encouraging creativity and cultural diversity.
We are looking for companies that are interested in supporting our feature film project that connects Amsterdam/Holland and Paraty/Brazil.

More information - leonardovieira21@hotmail.com

"From "The Jetsons" to "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", flying cars have long captured the imagination.
While several futuristic projects are under way in different countries, a Dutch design may be the first one sold and soaring into the skies."

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-dutch-firm-aims-car.html#jCp