Smart city

Missouri Interagency Smart City Program Need & Readiness Assessment While the Department of Transportation provided explicit criteria for evaluating a city’s merit to receive support under its Smart City sharing economy program, Smart City programs being offered by other agencies did not. The following review of select programs within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Commerce (DOC), Department of Energy (DOE), and Department of Justice (DOJ) applies the factors that might be used by Federal officials to determine whether a proposed project investment is better suited to take place in St. Louis, MO, versus another eligible city. DHS Next Generation First Responder Apex Program • 5. The volume of critical…

1. What are the advantages of smart cities? More than half the population of the world will be living in smart cities by the end of next decade. People want to avail benefits of a high tech environment living as an added advantage for those who want to. Technology is an aspect that is more responsive to people’s necessities, as one of the advantages of living in smart cities. Technology is also a powerful resource that tends to make people move towards cities making use of it. It is a response…

Are you young and want more opportunities? Well Millennials achieve a lot living in the city. The cities infrastructure brings a lot of befits to someone whom is trying to find them self. The population is so high you can find anything to keep you motivated and striving to be a better you. But there are three main reasons I recommend the city to anybody and that’s for the helping hand, people and conveniences. First, in the city everything is in walking distance. What makes everything in the…

reached 1 million in mere 17 weeks in China, especially after people became accustomed to crazily crowded scenes in apple stores whenever new products are launched. According to an interview in a Beijing apple store (Calum MacLeod, 2015), Zuo, a 50-year-old buyer already with two smart watches, talked about his keenness on the multi-time zone function and health apps of the product. He also mentioned, “Although I’m old, I like to keep up with the trend.” Not only is this trend of IoT driven by…

As machines have evolved over the years in intelligence we have become more certain that they will be able excel in everything humans do in life and do it better than human beings. In other words, machines encompass important aspects of life except for one the most important aspect, emotion. This article discusses this important topic concerning smart machines and how people treat the machines without regard of empathy. In a highly viewed website, this interesting written piece describes…

In the post 9/11 era “Smart Borders” has become a multi-faceted political, economic, and international endeavor balancing policy, to facilitate the safe and legal flow of goods and people through an array of technologies. After 9/11 extra attention was placed on cargo transportation systems, inspection technologies, and traffic management systems in an effort to ease congestion at the borders and extend inspections to include points of departure abroad (Andreas, 2009). Furthermore this…

1. Product Impact 1.1 Background In 2003, the Queensland Government set to developing a smart and electronic way to ticket commuter who use public transport such as trains, buses and ferries. They awarded a contract to Cubic Corporation of $134 million dollars to design this electronic ticketing system. The Queensland Government wanted Cubic Corporation, who is an American corporation providing military equipment and automated ticketing system within America, to build and operate an electronic…

popular due to the advancement in technology in the past decades. Debit cards technology was developed as a result of several years of work by various financial institutions and therefore it might be difficult to ascribe to who exactly come up with this technology. Debit cards may have started being used as early as 1966. This was prompted from the results of a pilot project that was done by the Bank of Delawere. Ever since, other banks started working on the idea of developing debit cards.…

he reely likes me because hes my frend. Boy if I get smart wont they be serprised.” (5) This quote demonstrates how he would be responded to differently if he would got the surgery. Charlie proclaims this idea when he writes what he thinks it would feel like when he was bright, “Then when I am smart they will talk to me and I can sit with them and listen like Joe Carp and Frank and Gimpy do when they talk and have a discushen about importent things.” An additional reason Charlie wants to be…

When I think of security breaches, I always think of the many stores that I have shopped at, only to find out months later they have been hacked. A few years ago I remember Target stores causing widespread panic, by releasing a press release that anyone who shopped in their store with a card was at risk for being hacked. These types of breaches leave customers in panic, and vigilantly inspecting their checking accounts, credit card statements, and their credit scores to ensure they have not…