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Why do smart cities struggle to emerge?

4 September 2017 eric morel 0

It seems obvious for everyone that the Smart Cities, which have been buzzing for several years, have difficulty to emerge. Not that nothing is happening because there are remarkable initiatives, but the tidal wave announced has not yet arrived. This situation is not unrelated to […]

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Should a Smart City be a pioneer to be recognized?

1 May 2017 eric morel 0

All Smart Cities claim to be the pioneer, the first. Taken at random from publications, there are many examples: – « La Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur, classée comme smart city pionnière » (Nice Côte d’Azur metropolis ranked as smart city pioneer) – « Lyon, pionnière de la smart […]

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Smart cities : Myth or reality

13 March 2017 eric morel 0

The cities seem suddenly taken with a frenetic appetite for technology: they all knock at the door of the digital world: they become SMART, in other words, intelligent. What are the foundations of this movement? What is the real power of technologies? Is the real […]

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Are Smart Cities to be all electric?

30 January 2017 eric morel 0

The great electric manufacturers dream of it: they describe a luminous future world where everything will be more electric than today. Will the Smart Cities fit in with this trend? Does this vision make sense for the cities? Or is it only an incantation launched […]

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Smart Meters 2: are they really expensive?

12 September 2016 eric morel 0

Second chapter of our saga on Smart Meters after the first episode dedicated to their usefulness: critics often argue about their costs, supposedly exorbitant . What is it really the situation? The total cost of deploying smart meters may impress and give credibility to the […]

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