We are currently living in a time where Spain’s municipalities are receiving lots of aid through European Next Generation funds including, among others, the water and agri-food PERTEs (Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation). Projects relating to these funds are focused on the digitalization of the various sectors and verticals making up Smart Cities. Massive deployments of...
After several years in which the growth forecasts for the IoT market were not met, 2019 exceeded expectations, and certain market analysts predict connected devices will increase by 21% in 2020. We can therefore say that the broader adoption of this technology is finally taking place, and this mass adoption comes with several questions: What are and what will be the use cases? Smart...
Now that the second decade of the 21st century is about to end, sustainability and digitalization have become challenges all city areas must face. With this in mind, the 40th FITUR edition, which just took place in Madrid, has greatly focused on the need to incorporate new technologies to tourist destinations and turn them into “Smart Destinations”. So as to meet the above mentioned challenges,...
A few weeks ago, we blogged about the importance of Smart Cities to promote smart sustainable cities. Half the population worldwide now lives in big cities, and this figure is expected to rise over the next ten years. Recent UN studies show that urban centers consume as much as 78% of the world’s energy and produce more than 60% of greenhouse gas emissions. This problem directly affects the...
On November 6th, the European Utility Week 2018 (EUW18) was held in Vienna (Austria). The event is attended by numerous companies and industry experts and provides an opportunity for them to showcase their developments and solutions. One of the main objectives of this annual event is to achieve a simple transition towards low carbon content energy supply. For three days, you can visit the fair,...
ZigBee Smart Energy (SE) is a standard for interconnecting and interoperating devices, via radio frequency, directed towards monitoring, managing and automating energy, gas and water usage. It seeks to be a useful tool for creating “Green Homes”, and is aimed at coordinating energy usage, optimizing its generation and consumption. What is ZigBee? ZigBee SE is a world-leading standard widely used...
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