Smart city concepts are really taking off globally.
Currently, the largest spending on smart city technologies is for smart grids;
however, over the next five years we will see a significant increase on
spending for smart transportation technologies such as automatic vehicle ID and
smart governance systems such as e-ID and ID document systems,” said Josh
Flood, senior analyst at ABI Research.
Amsterdam’s smart environment project, launched in 2009,
is a collaboration between Utility Liander and Amsterdam Innovation Motor. The
program aims to set up a unique partnership with the city’s residents,
businesses, and government to save energy now and in the future.
The program’s ultimate goal is to reduce CO2 emissions
in Amsterdam, as well as eventually all of Europe. While Amsterdam had
previously committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2025,
compared to a baseline of 1990, the smart city project aims to achieve that
goal ten years earlier by 2015.
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