Safe / Smart City

CES 2019 electronics show reflected some major shifts that will characterize world technology in the near future. Four trends stood out above the others,...

AT&T successfully demonstrated its 5G networking capabilities for defense applications. The company completed its first milestone toward proving the capabilities of its 5G network...

We’ve already grown used to the surveillance cameras. Now there are microphones beside the cameras and in the not-so-distant future facial recognition apps will...

An integration program in the autonomous transportation field was recently announced. NEXT Future Transportation, a modular vehicle solutions provider and Digital Barriers, which expertises...

The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics), a public-private partnership, recently announced a new Defense Department project. The AIM Photonics initiative will...

The 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, will help thirty-three cities in its first year. The challenge seeks to make...

The Internet of Things (IoT) trend - connecting our apartments, cars, hospitals or anything else to the internet - is picking up, making the...

Swiss voters have given an approval to a law on new surveillance powers for the intelligence agencies. The new law would allow the authorities to...

Articles and issues covered in this episode: Australian authorities warn commercial drone operators New technology allows remote wiping of mobile devices Giant lobster robot saves lives and conducts...

iHLS is proud to present AUS&R 2021 - the Unmanned Systems and Robotics Conference - the ninth annual event. AUS&R will be held on July...

A new agreement will support the expansion of Abu Dhabi’s city-wide video surveillance project within the framework of the Smart City program. Recently, Cisco...

The US has been harnessing IoT technologies in attempt to advance a wide array of Smart City applications as well as in response to...

Power transmission lines stretch across forests, farmland, and mountainous terrain, where they face constant exposure to heat, vegetation growth, and shifting weather patterns. These...

The US Army has begun integrating AI-assisted target recognition into its Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype during the ongoing Ivy Sting 2...

Cities generate enormous amounts of traffic video every day, yet only a fraction of it is ever reviewed. For transportation agencies, the challenge isn’t...

Drones can supply real time information on routes traffic jams, providing a “bird's eye view” for surveillance and improving city traffic information and management. The...

As indoor lighting shifts almost entirely to LEDs over the next decade, researchers are examining whether these lamps can play a much larger role...

Three new Video Management Platform (VMP) models for video security and monitoring purposes were introduced by Hitachi Insight Group. The models combine virtualized compute...

We know how to install thousands of advanced cameras that cover open and closed, safe and secured areas. We know how to store massive...

As the threat of unauthorized and potentially hostile drones grows in urban airspaces, the New York Police Department (NYPD) is actively evaluating new counter-drone...

Japan is advancing its use of drones equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and cameras to enhance disaster response and crime prevention. The government has...

Rice University engineers have developed an advanced AI-powered system to improve real-time flood detection on roads, addressing a critical need for effective flood-reporting tools....