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One of the key characteristics of a smart city is the ability to make effective connections among its citizens, assets and services. The smart city does this by using technology to support and improve the interaction among people and government. In doing so, a city enhances its citizens' well-being as well as the city's overall performance and efficiency.
 Why You Need to Know: A key part of smart cities lies in effective interaction among government, citizens and businesses. The goal is to engage citizens by listening, analyzing and showing how their feedback affects plans and policies. In doing so, government establishes public trust and stronger communities through social inclusion. |
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Time management is one of the unspoken challenges of every new entrepreneur. At the starting gate, one has just so many things to take care of, and so little knowledge of what steps to take, that time wasted might be the best measure of start-up costs.
Why You Need to Know: Rushing from idea to the market in an attempt to outrace bankruptcy is not the image that makes entrepreneurship sexy. But it is the reality for any start-up. |
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The partnership trend grows ever more solid and promising every day, and the newest evidence comes in the form of a new intelligent water management system, called Phyn, built in tandem by Belkin International and Uponor Corporation.
Why You Need to Know: Phyn represents the next wave of the smart home and will create an intelligent water solution that protects family homes and businesses from leak damage, enables mindful conservation, and enhances household water usage with automated and anticipatory controls. |
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There is a tendency for all of us in the communications industry when we think about not just the future but the present of networks and their traffic to, in essence, marginalize, and in some cases write-off, voice communications.
Why You Need to Know: Realities are that voice remains a dominant form of human-to-human (or human-to-machine) interaction. It is both mission critical for CSP fortunes and sustainability in a world going "mobile first", as well as a major tool in the arsenals of cable operators and OTT providers as they seek to create comprehensive and immersive customer experience in order to better compete. |
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Companies and their networks are undergoing a whole lot of change, and the vendors that have historically been the arms dealers for network engineers have to go with the flow. Cisco Systems is seen as the vendor with the most to lose, considering it's long been the leader in enterprise networking.
Why You Need to Know: This reflects the rise of cloud services, which enable businesses to more easily scale, always keep up to date with the latest software releases, offload some of the IT chores from their own staff members, and avoid upfront equipment costs and maintenance requirements. |
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