• Smart Infrastructure As A Driver For Sustainable Smart Cities

  • Top 10 Smart City Technology Companies - 2019

    Smart cities have long been among the most actively discussed realizations made possible by the integration of IoT, data, connectivity, and by leveraging a mix of varied technologies.

    Driven by rapid urbanization, increasing population, changing the environment, and limited resources, countries around the globe are propelling the formation of smart cities. But, thanks to enhanced connectivity, Smartphones are putting real-time information about transit, traffic, health services, safety alerts, and community news into millions of hands. Each instance of upkeep and improvement is creating opportunities for new sources of feedback to yield benefits far beyond what is currently available. This collected data is processed to visualize a smart city infrastructure’s state of repair, utilization, and more possibilities for improvement.

    This edition of CIO Applications Europe features companies such as Terranova and Eliko that are at the forefront of offering agile smart city solutions. CIO Applications Europe’s editorial board has assessed and shortlisted some of the most prominent organizations in the industry that solve challenges by implementing the current technological trends in the space. We present to you an exclusive edition on Top 10 Smart City Solution Providers - 2019.

    Top Smart City Technology Companies

    Eliko
    Eliko, a trusted, experienced, and capable state-of-the-art technology provider and partner, delivers high-quality solutions for a smart world. Since 2004, the company is developing technologies and solutions for smart cities, Industry 4.0, healthcare, and many other domains. Eliko offers proven, ready-to-use technologies as well as customization and applied R&D to help create new and more competitive IoT products for a smart world. Its competencies include indoor positioning, machine vision, sensing and signal processing in the IoT space. Eliko is the primary source of applied R&D in the IoT for the Estonian IT and electronics sector
    Terranova
    Smart Grid and Smart Metering are two main concepts in the day-to-day management of the business to be more productive, more intelligent. For this purpose, Terranova analyzes the company's organizational contexts to build and help network digitalization processes capable of resource utilization and greater efficiency in process management. Since the beginning of the 2000s, Terranova has begun operating on the utility market: it has found new opportunities to deliver creative software solutions in this business sector that, after some deep restructuring forced by some structural normative choices, has required enormous application support. The organization has concentrated from the very beginning on providing its software solutions to the gas distribution sector where technological support was missing more than elsewhere. Therefore, the organization became the beneficiary of new skills and had to handle new organizational modalities
    Amplex
    Amplex allows for tracking, managing and regulating power and other resources through utilities and distribution companies, helping to reduce usage and avoid loss. We help our customers demonstrate their stakeholders, and they take action. The company's GridLightTM software provides a number of smart city add-ons such as travel time and air pollution–easy to add to existing infrastructure for streetlight management. In addition to GSM cellular and WiFi, GridLightTM supports the smart city low-power networking network LoRaWAN. Amplex is now pushing it further, enabling older adults and families to have a better home life, taking care of both the resident and the carer (relative or professional)
    Binando
    Binando GmbH is a young company that develops methods for smart handling of waste. The portfolio provides all-in-one hardware solutions leveraging the forward-looking Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, including maintenance via software to a dashboard directly from the cloud. A sensor for waste containers is specially designed and developed. It tests the amount in a garbage bin, such as a glass or paper container and sends to the backend periodically rates and other information such as temperature or humidity. A route planning explicitly tailored to the waste management needs, based on the container's actual and expected filling rate, allows for an optimal path at any time while at the same time avoiding overfilled containers. A dashboard offers insights into the useful container and route data
    door2door GmbH
    door2door is Germany's leading ride pooling technology on-demand market. The engineering and mobility consultancy services of the organization were designed to transform urban mobility as a pillar of congestion-free and pollution-free sustainable cities. door2door makes it possible for municipalities and public transport companies to provide dynamic on-demand mobility services in conjunction with existing transport networks. German public transit providers, such as MVG in Munich, DVG in Duisburg, and the small municipality of Freyung in Bavaria, are already successfully applying the company's technology. door2door believes in people's communities, not vehicles. The company adopts an active partnership strategy and helps public transport operators and authorities find the best way to fulfil their respective needs while retaining control of their local ecosystem of mobility
    EasyPark Group
    EasyPark Group is the leading digital parking service provider in Europe. The company provides services that create a leap in cost efficiency and user-friendliness for parking, charging electric vehicles and guidance on parking. The systems offer drivers as well as towns, parking providers and businesses within the automotive industry with a range of benefits and new value-generating opportunities. EasyPark has full national coverage throughout the Nordic countries and also operates easily across European borders in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands and services. EasyPark operates with one product, one network and unified operations to serve all HQ markets in Stockholm, Sweden, as the scale is a key focus field
    Iamus
    Iamus is a company that blends established IoT technology and market experience to drive customer success. The vision of the company is to develop the next generation of digital infrastructure through a powerful open IoT system, taking customers to higher levels of efficiency, communication, adaptability and control. The company allows customers to access previously untapped data streams that streamline complex operations management and provide high-value tactical and strategic planning actionable information. Iamus is proud to be a member of the Science, Innovation and Technology Agency of Lithuania and to be known as one of the region's leading IoT firms
    LIT Transit
    LIT Transitprovides public transport providers around the world with creative mobility technology solutions. LIT Transit puts together the latest technology for providing the high-performance public transportation systems the city needs and the passengers need. Where does the business add value? With the most robust future-ready development technologies available on the market, the cutting-edge back-office structures of the business are in a completely different league. LIT Transit Management System is a complete system to control and improve the reliability and activities of public transportation. Powerful data processing tools offer overall service analysis, while intuitive data visualization allows for real-time insights, creating opportunities for rapid development and optimization
    SPOTTEN
    Spotten allows motorists to find parking spots on and off the road and works with cities to discuss several parking solutions. Spotten provides the solution to problems of parking in big cities. Among other items, Spotten data system shows free parking spaces with the aid of parking sensors. The sensors are mounted on a parking area's road surface and detect whether a vehicle is parked at this location through an infrared and electromagnetic field. However, the sensor data from Spotten provides municipalities with useful parking insights (such as occupancy, parking changes parking time) that can be used to enhance parking policy
    WPS Parking Systems
    WPS is regarded as a leading provider of efficient parking management solutions focused on realistic technology–the goal is to be a top-three player in all markets. WPS focuses on pragmatic creativity and puts the technology together to provide consumers with smart, but ultimately efficient and future proof parking solutions that are ready to face today's and tomorrow's connected world. With decades of experience and state-of-the-art research and development, production facilities and sales offices worldwide, WPS is a knowledge hub for parking innovation. WPS has become a global full-service parking management solution company

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