Time To Get Smart

With pilot schemes for countless smart city projects taking off around the world, Ellen Tannam asks the experts what’s coming down the line

Marko Javornik, vice-president and business director of mobility and travel at Comtrade Digital Services

The concept of a smart city has been around for decades, but it is only relatively recently that technological advances have aligned with longstanding research and speculation around planning cities holistically and efficiently. The simultaneous development of both ICT and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies over the last decade has given rise to hundreds of smart city pilot schemes and initiatives around the globe.

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