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A nonprofit 'smart city' innovation cluster focused on the ways in which people and data will co-create the quality of life and economic future.

Vancouver
Joined September 2013
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City of Sapporo, Japan presenting its #smartcity platform and example of snow plow/removal as key winter issue at UTA launch - when snow banks too high requires removal at 10X cost buff.ly/2CaOhcb @UrbTechAlliance #urbantechnologyalliance #smartcities #IoT #BigData
First day of the the launch event for the newly formed Urban Technology Alliance (UTA) buff.ly/2CaOhcb @UrbTechAlliance #urbantechnologyalliance #smartcity #smartcities #IoT #BigData #CloudComputing buff.ly/2CaOhsH Dr Levent Gurgen outlining the goals for UTA
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How can you exploit #fog & #EdgeComputing to build large scale #smartcity applications? We've spent three years figuring it out. #smartcities #IoT @NodeRED Our latest paper: eprints.lancs.ac.uk/126366/1…
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Our recent #IEEE EDGE publication: Fog at the Edge: experiences building an edge computing platform eprints.lancs.ac.uk/126366/1… @bcloutsmartcity @NodeRED #SmartCities #SmartCity #EdgeComputing
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Interesting to see from municipality of the Hague - The Hague-WCCD (World Council on City Data, ed.) Local Data Hub”. We are promoting the importance of standardised city data according to ISO37120 certification" goo.gl/UxwCgM #SmartCities #opendata #BigData
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UrbanOpus has just joined the #smartcity Urban Technology Alliance (UTA) urbantechnologyalliance.org/ UTA's focus on shared city testbeds aligns well. Looking forward to sharing experiences on #SmartCities #opendata #BigData #IoT - details at goo.gl/qbtRgh
Pleased to announce partnership with Australia's largest Telco to use FRED as basis for multi #IoT service platform goo.gl/hRwLw1
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3rd F2F meeting of EU-JP #SmartCity project @bcloutsmartcity Will discuss our work on #FogComputing using @NodeRED goo.gl/PhHKnh
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Interesting! Thoughts on our discussion of the future & impact of electric mobility innovation? bit.ly/2lWyqED
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Just posted the third part of the IEEE #smartcities technology trends paper urbanopus.net/smart-cities-t… #IoT #smartcity #bigdata
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Our @sensetecnic partners will be talking about Node-RED with the IBM folks. We've had great success at UO using it for #smartcity apps nitter.cf/mblackstock/status/829…
I’ll be presenting FRED with @rodgerlea an online talk with the @NodeRED team tomorrow morning - developer.ibm.com/open/event…
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Simple interactive viz of #Vancouver crime stats urbanopus.net/crime-in-vanco… @urbanopus #opendata #Tableau from our @CKANproject CityHub
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Want to better understand #smartcity #Standardization - my recent article for #IEEE standards. goo.gl/RTR2im
Today's the last day to submit feedback on our assessment of Canada’s #OpenGov Plan 2014-16! ow.ly/9pOB3069Xyg #OpenGovCan
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Great set of #smartcity papers at our upcoming workshop goo.gl/GuXz27 in Trento @middleware2016 #smartcities @bcloutsmartcity
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Loving the innovative thinking about #smartcities by @urbanopus at #generate2016 incl. on tackling time & fuel wasted looking for parking.
Great chance to meet German Smart City/Energy companies @GreenEnergyBC nitter.cf/GermanyInCanada/status…
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Great set of papers at this year's #smartcities workshop goo.gl/VsXrnj including several from the @bcloutsmartcity team
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Great set of papers at this year's #smartcities workshop goo.gl/VsXrnj Co-located with @TheOfficialACM @middleware2016 conf