SmartCitiesWorld Podcast

How remote diagnostics and predictive maintenance can deliver major cost-savings for city fleet managers

In the latest SmartCitiesWorld podcast, Luke Antoniou speaks to Cloudera’s Cindy Maike about these empowering technologies .

 

Fleet management and maintenance represent a major cost center for cities around the world. Remote diagnostics and predictive maintenance solutions, however, can help to deliver major savings as well as provide real-time visibility on fleets – from trucks to buses, and other city-run vehicles. To deliver maximum benefit, the solutions need to be powered by advanced data management and analytics systems. The data management challenge is only getting tougher, especially given the proliferation of the connected vehicles and devices that collect the data. Luke Antoniou, senior editor, SmartCitiesWorld, talks to Cindy Maike, vice president of industry solutions and value management, Cloudera. 

Connected and autonomous vehicles - where the rubber hits the road

CAVs and the data they produce could ultimately become a key part of the wider connected communities. SmartCitiesWorld sits down with Michael Ger, Managing Director, Manufacturing and Automotive at Cloudera, and Douglas O’Flaherty, Global Ecosystem Leader at IBM Storage, to discuss the autonomous vehicle market, its opportunities today and what lies in wait for the decade ahead. 

How Big Data and Machine Learning Can Benefit Cities

How distributed acoustic sensing can give greater insight into your smart city, with Fotech

In the latest SmartCitiesWorld podcast, Sarah Wray talks to Chris Shannon, CEO of Fotech Group and Stuart Large, Product Line Director & Business Development.

The central role of cities in the sharing economy, with Chelsea Rustrum

There’s a big opportunity for cities to better harness the sharing economy to achieve municipal goals and give power back to the people, Rustrum says.

Take off your tech goggles, with Ben Green, author of The Smart Enough City

In the latest episode of the SmartCitiesWorld podcast, we talk to Ben Green, author of The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future.

He offers insights into why technology is not an end in itself and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.

How to overcome smart city funding challenges, with Barbara Kreissler, Signify

SmartCitiesWorld podcast: Addressing the smart cities skills gap

Cities need the right people to lead their transformation – they can’t do it with technology alone. What are the challenges?

Feat.

• Gunnar Crawford, Stavanger Smart City
• Raffaele Gareri, Province of Brescia & Smart City Association Italy
• Teppo Rantanen, City of Tampere
• Dominic Papa, Arizona Institute for Digital Progress.
• Bas Boorsma, CEO TASC