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BBC Technology News
Smart cities get their own operating system
30 September 2011
Cities could soon be looking after their citizens all by themselves thanks to an operating system designed for the metropolis.
PRWeb
Digital value chains to be developed and demonstrated with new government support
14 September 2011
The Technology Strategy Board (http://www.innovateuk.org) is to invest nearly £6 million of government funding in nine innovative strategic research and development projects and ground-breaking trials that will show how co-operation between digital infrastructure providers, content producers, users and software developers can be improved to earn revenue.
Wall Street Journal
Portuguese Smart City Wins WEF Global Award
05 September 2011
Living PlanIT, the Portuguese smart city initiative, was selected as one of the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers of 2012.
PR Week
Edelman wins five-year brief to handle comms for Portugal's PlanIT Valley deal
09 June 2011
The firm behind PlanIT Valley, Europe's largest smart city development, has called in Edelman to handle its product and b2b comms in a five-year contract.
Reuters
PlanIT Valley: A Blueprint for the Smart City
31 March 2011
New build smart cities are a phenomenon usually associated with Asia or the Middle East. Whether it is a showcase project like Songdo in South Korea or the massive new city development program being driven by the Chinese government, greenfield sites offer a chance to think afresh about how cities are designed, built, and operated. However, one of the most ambitious new city developments is about to begin in northern Portugal. PlanIT Valley is being built on a 1,700 hectare (4,000 acre) plot in the municipality of Paredes near Porto. The project is being driven by Living PlanIT, which is working closely with the Portuguese authorities and partners such as Cisco and Microsoft to develop an ambitious plan for a new type of urban development.
Fast Company
Microsoft Helping Break Ground on Cloud- Connected Homes in New Smart City
25 March 2011
The home of the future will be bedecked with smart sensors that send their data to the cloud so you can manage the house from afar--yes, this is a story we've heard before. But now Microsoft has joined a plan to build a smart city jammed with exactly these smart homes in Portugal. Living PlanIT, which calls itself "one of the world's leading smart city and urban development technology providers" has been working on a plan for a smart city in northern Portugal for quite a while--currently a 2013 unveiling looks likely. And its plans have been given a huge boost this week with news that Microsoft has signed up, bringing all sorts of MS tech to the table. This technology includes the Connected Government Framework and the Azure platform (more on this soon). Microsoft's former General Manager of Market Development and co-chair of its Business Development Forum is now CEO of PlanIt--which may have helped MS's decision to leap on board alongside other tech partners like Cisco.
IDTechEx
1 City, 100 million sensors
25 March 2011
Many of us have iPhones with a myriad of embedded sensors on them, allowing countless apps to be built on these sensory systems but crucially, many of these applications were never conceived when the device was put together. In many ways the PlanIT Valley project from the Living PlanIT team is very similar but instead of a few sensors there will be 100 million sensors deployed over 17 km2 – an area equivalent to Manhattan Island, New York City – to seamlessly embed and connect an entire city with Wireless Sensor Networks.
