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The World's Smartest Cities: Singapore, New York, Barcelona, Oslo, London & San Francisco, According to Unacast's Latest Proximity.Directory Report (Formerly Proxbook)Proximity.Directory, formerly Proxbook, the world's largest directory of proximity companies, has released its Q4 2016 Report which has aggregated information from more than 370 Proximity Solution Providers in over 50 different countries and reveals the latest trends, facts and figures from the global proximity industry as well as the growth and how proximity technologies can benefit smart cities. This is the 7th edition of the Proximity.Directory Report. "The Q4 2016 Proximity.Directory Report concluded the deployment of global smart technology projects in urban markets is expected to grow significantly on annualized basis," said Thomas Walle, co-founder & CEO of Unacast. "We are still in the early stages of smart city developments. In 2017, big project announcements will come to life."
Walle continued, "As more of the world's cities become congested with continued urbanization, governments need to prepare for smart city initiatives. These initiatives can benefit by using proximity technologies to overcome mobility challenges the growing population presents to ensure public safety, optimize traffic flow, create better tourism experiences, and data monetization opportunities." Uber's latest initiative (Uber Movement) gives city planners and researchers the possibility to look into ways to improve urban mobility by accessing their data connected to traffic flow. "Uber has a lot of insight into how traffic works within a city, and it can be anonymized so that it isn't tied to specific individuals in most cases," stated Kjartan Slette, COO and co-founder of Unacast. "Uber is going to begin sharing this data, first to specific organizations who apply for early access, and then eventually to the general public." Here's how cities are getting smart and putting technolgy to work for them
Additional Proximity Industry Findings
Unacast will be hosting a webinar to discuss Proximity.Directory report findings on Wednesday, February 22 at 1pm ET. The webinar is free to attend and registration information is available on the event website. About Unacast Unacast is the world's largest proximity data platform, and built the Real World Graph™ to understand how people and places are connected, empowering the next generation of data driven industries with unique double-deterministic™ data sets. Unacast is based out of NYC and founders Thomas Walle and Kjartan Slette, were also part of the founding team behind TIDAL, the music streaming company acquired by Jay Z. Unacast has been awarded multiple awards for its platform, its campaigns and for its rapid company growth, and currently nominated as the leading "vertical & marketplace" at the upcoming Local Search Association (LSA) awards in San Diego. About Proximity.Directory Proximity.Directory is the world's largest directory of proximity companies. Recently rebranded from Proxbook to open up the platform to a wider audience and companies, shifting from having a technology specific focus towards the deterministic location story. There are other analytics/hardware/software companies out there that are not focused on NFC, Wi-Fi or Beacons, but still able to solve location through deterministic context. As of today we encourage all of these companies to sign up to the directory for free and start showcasing their products.
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