21 European capitals to collaborate on high-impact smart-city services

Twenty one of Europe’s capital cities are to participate in a new initiative to accelerate development and delivery of “high impact” digital services.  The two-year scheme, by Bloomberg Philanthropies, will see cities receive technical help, access to city leaders, and training from “innovation experts” about how to use digital technologies to help with improvement of…

Software can actually increase the value of IoT hardware over time (Reader Forum)

Data is vitally important for businesses today, supporting decisions ranging from optimizing production in real time to predicting (and avoiding) equipment failure. Many companies gather and analyze this data through IoT deployments that consist of sensors and gateway devices—the sensors take in data and send it to the onsite gateway device, which then processes and…