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Intelligence of ThingsThe IoT Powers Through Pandemic
The global pandemic stunted progress in many nascent companies and industries. Internet of Things (IoT) projects, for example, like the installation of...
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Intelligence of ThingsABB On How Smart Cities Can Emerge Stronger Out Of The Pandemic
Experts think that far from a bad economy slowing down smart-city investments, the need to prepare for the next crisis will promote...
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Intelligence of ThingsSmart Cities Can Emerge Stronger From The Pandemic
There is scarcely an aspect of life that has not been thoroughly disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis has also dramatically...
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Today In DataThe Pandemic’s Influence On Connected Fitness And Smart Cities
Peloton is not the only connected fitness company benefiting from pandemic-related stay-at-home orders, with ICON Health & Fitness and Nautilus also finding new demand. In technology initiatives, Toronto’s Digital...
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RetailThe Rise And Fall Of Digital Initiatives For Toronto Retailers
It’s one step up and one step back for the retail community in Toronto. In the same week, the city’s Digital Main...
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Intelligence of ThingsHow Cisco Is Building The Smart Cities Of The Future
The global smart city market is set to reach $252 billion by 2025. To keep smart city initiatives secure, there’s a growing...
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Intelligence of ThingsCisco On The Future Of Safe And Smart Cities
With some analysts projecting a trillion IoT-enabled devices to be in use around the world by 2035, defending the IoT ecosystem is becoming...
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InnovationCybercrime’s New Stomping Grounds: Smart Cities
For at least the last five years — futurists and smart technology boosters have been touting the inevitable rise of the smart...
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Internet of ThingsIntelligence Of Things (IoT) Tracker Shines A Light On 2021
The smiley face of the Internet of Things (IoT) in 2020 mostly involves refrigerators that self-refill, voice-assisted homes, cars that can order...
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Intelligence of ThingsWhy APIs Are Crucial To Smart Transit’s IoT Growth
From London’s Underground to NYC’s MTA, transit systems are digitizing ticket purchasing to boost ridership and reduce consumer friction. But most still...
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Intelligence of ThingsWhy An API May Be The Ticket To Solving Public Transit’s Cash Flow Jam
There will be approximately 25 billion Intelligence of Things (IoT)-enabled devices in use by the end of 2021, and many of these...
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RetailBringing Luggage Storage Into The Digital Age
Before Peter Korbel started the StoreMe luggage storage service, he lugged around a gym bag and didn’t like bringing it to his...
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InnovationCES 2020 Opens The Door On A New Decade
If it’s not the holiest of holies for those involved in payments and commerce, it sure comes reasonably close. We are talking...
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InnovationWhy Smart Cities Of The Future Won’t Be Built In A Day
While smart cities have been in the public consciousness for a long time, we’ve been writing about them here at PYMNTS since...
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Intelligence of ThingsBringing Autonomous Smart Shuttles To the Masses
There will be 41.6 billion Internet of Things (IoT)-connected devices around the world by 2025. Consumers and businesses have increasingly employed the...
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Intelligence of ThingsDr. Alexa? How Voice Assistants Can Cure Patient Billing’s Ills
Fifth generation (5G) networks are slated to be in use around the world by 2020. These networks offer higher data processing, lower...
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InnovationSmart City Concept Gets New Boost From Google Parent
Behold the rise of the smart city — a development that will have significant impact on payments and commerce, at least according to...
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EcosystemsAlabama Debuts Smart Utility Payments Program
It started, arguably, with mass transit, though with many bumps along the way, as the problems are slowly being solved while still...
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Intelligence of ThingsAlias Creators On Security, GDPR And Data As The New Oil
“Alexa, how secure is my data?” Smart speakers and other IoT devices are growing in popularity and affordability for consumers, many of...
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Intelligence of Things‘Alexa — Is My Data Secure On Connected Devices?’
By 2020, there will be an estimated 26 billion Intelligence of Things (IoT)-connected devices active around the world. As the IoT market...
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InnovationAlphabet Seeks Share Of Taxes For Toronto ‘Smart City’
To create a smart city on the waterfront of Toronto, Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs is reportedly looking for a share of development fees, increased...
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InnovationDigital License Plates Vie For Place In The Connected Car Ecosystem
The move toward a connected car ecosystem includes the potential use of digital license plates on vehicles — an effort that has...
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AuthenticationDeep Dive: Why Smart Cities Should Get Smart About Digital ID
By some accounts, approximately 70 percent of the world’s population will reside in smart cities by 2050. The following Deep Dive explores...
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Security & FraudPSD2 Is Coming — Are Merchants Ready?
From using instant messaging to getting directions and shopping online, consumers are constantly generating a trail of data about their preferences and...
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RegulationSmart Cities At Risk for GDPR Fines?
GDPR still has ripple effects, several months after its debut — and the ripple effects extend from Europe to U.S. shores. News...
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EcosystemsConnected Cars Hitch A Ride On Smart City Spending
They are siblings, the concepts of connected vehicles and smart cities. Tied together by data, sensors, algorithms, software and other technology, the...
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Internet of ThingsSmart Cities Projects Testing IoT Technology To Fix Traffic, Transit Woes
Internet of Things technology is known to much of the public through the development of smart home technology, which allows consumers to...
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Internet of ThingsAT&T’s 5G Push To Power Tomorrow’s Smart Cities
The world is becoming an increasingly urban place. In the year 1950, only about 30 percent of the human population lived in...
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Using Blockchain To Build Up Smart Cities
Dubai is one of the fastest-growing regions in the world and has big ambitions to become a global tech hub. The young...
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B2B PaymentsHow Micro-Businesses Fit Into Mastercard’s Smart Cities Vision
Mastercard has several plans in the works to target half a billion people around the world who fall outside the realm of the...
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Security & FraudSmart Grids Aren’t Secure, Survey Says
A new survey from Tripwire, a global provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organizations, revealed that 98 percent...
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MasterCard’s Smart Cities Now Includes Digital Payments
MasterCard is partnering with 100 Resilient Cities — Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) in order to push digital payments as part of its “Smart Cities”...
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MasterCard On Turning Urban Hubs Into Smart Cities
More than half the world’s population lives in cities. And by the year 2050, that figure is expected to be closer to...
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Security & FraudWISeKey Partners To Secure Smart City Data
Global digital security solutions company WISeKey and real-time city data management platform Cityzenith are working together to aggregate, analyze and visualize critical...
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The Smart Cities Playbook
City living is set to skyrocket — with unprecedented growth expected by the year 2050 — placing a huge amount of stress...
