2020 was considered a year of unparalleled disruption as the world was caught completely unprepared by the seismic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a also a year of innovation as a mitigating response to the pandemic disruption as technology allowed businesses and enterprises to quickly devise technology-aided measures for business continuity. If 2020 […]
Technology for Disaster Preparedness and Risk Management
Last week, many provinces have been affected by the super typhoon ‘Rolly’. Regions were flooded with some towns being submerged by over two metres in depth. Houses and their roofings were torn apart due to the harsh winds of the typhoon. This left many homeless and with the damage done to agricultural areas and commercial […]
The Basic Planning Behind Smart Cities
Smart cities have a complicated development structure, especially when we compare the early pioneers that were the first true wave of smart cities in the 2K decade. But in the other parts of the world, the emerging economies are also starting to catch up with the smart city blueprint of development. For the economies that […]
Smart Integrations of Solutions to Smart Cities: Where do we begin?
Going digital is the next step to cope with the impacts left by the pandemic. Some cities already integrated emerging technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence. These cities, like Singapore, have evolved into what is known as smart cities today. Smart City is a framework that consists of technology […]
Digital Twins and the Smart City Framework
Let us define the terms first to paint a clearer picture of the futuristic world created by the applications of these two concepts. Digital twins, as further elaborated in an article published by Forbes, pertain to the precise, digital representations of physical assets, people, systems or processes. It enables the replication of the engineering data […]