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A1 Introduces Smart Communicating Waste Bins in Croatia

A1 in Croatia, a leading provider of digital services and communication solutions, held a press conference and presented three models of smart communicating waste bins, which optimize waste collection and contribute to the environment by reducing the carbon footprint. One of the smart bins is TOM from Orwak. A1 in Croatia, which has about 2000 employees and serves 2 million customers on an ...

Nov. 12, 2020

By Orwak AB

Water monitoring system wins VINCI Facilities innovation award

VINCI Facilities has won an innovation award for its work in the Royal Parks using advanced water level monitoring technology and cloud-based data management from OTT Hydromet to improve the management of the Longford River. The VINCI Facilities Innovation Awards competition takes place every two years covering 12 regions throughout the world. Celebrating innovation and advanced technology, it ...

Sep. 27, 2018

By OTT HydroMet

Trilliant and Saigon Hi-Tech Park Sign Deal for First Smart City Project in Southeast Asia

Trilliant, a global provider of IoT and smart energy communications solutions, signed a deal on August 15 with Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) to deploy Southeast Asia's first smart city project. Trilliant will install light-emitting diode (LED) lights, together with controls and a smart city management platform. The smart lighting system will communicate over the existing AMI network owned by the ...

Sep. 22, 2017

By Smart Grid Observer

AUG Secures Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Project Under BCIP

A.U.G. Signals Ltd (AUG), one of the leading experts in intelligent sensor systems and signal processing, today announced its new pilot project with Parks Canada under the Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCIP) for the wildlife monitoring in the Glacier National Park, between Revelstoke and Golden, British Columbia. During this project, AUG will deploy its multi-sensor SENTINEL system on the ...

Feb. 21, 2017

By A.U.G. Signals Ltd.

Harnessing Communications Technologies and IoT Applications for the Smart City

The speed of technology change has not yet provided solutions to the growing nexus of interconnected urban problems - among them housing availability; natural resource depletion and ecosystem stress; inadequate education and health care; and racial and ethnic inequalities. Successfully harnessing technologies to meet these challenges is a key priority, and challenge, for realizing the Smart City ...

Dec. 13, 2016

By Smart Grid Observer

Leveraging Data in Moving Towards the Smart City

Cities, no matter what size, all want to use data to inform their day-to-day operations and strategic forecasting. Most megacities have already developed the organizational, technical, and analytical foundations to leverage their data while some of the small to medium cities are still working to develop that capability. A special panel session at the Smart Cities International Symposium, ...

Dec. 5, 2016

By Smart Grid Observer

Modelling partly to blame for air quality failures

On 2nd November 2016 the High Court ruled in a case brought by ClientEarth, that the UK Government’s plans to tackle air pollution are illegal. The judgement said: “the Secretary of State (for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) must aim to achieve compliance (with the Air Quality Directive) by the soonest date possible, that she must choose a route to that objective which ...

Nov. 9, 2016

By Air Monitors - ACOEM Group

Smart Cities International Symposium in Chicago to Examine Key Challenges and Opportunities for the Connected City

The world's urban population is expected to increase by 60 per cent between 2014 and 2050, when 6.3 billion people are projected to live in urban settlements. New insights and solutions are urgently needed in order to manage the scarce resources that will be impacted by this trend, as well as operate new and regenerated urban spaces. New generations of sensor networks, Big Data analytics, and ...

Oct. 22, 2016

By Smart Grid Observer

Unique Chinese wetland park monitors water 24/7

In Deyang, China, a unique, 3-hectare, park combines a recreational wetland park, an artificial groundwater recharge facility and a drinking water production plant. The whole water system, from intake to effluent, is constantly monitored. Eijkelkamp Soil & Water was one of the project partners and was responsible for the water monitoring ...

Sep. 23, 2016

By Eijkelkamp Soil & Water

Special Ceremony Planned to Unveil Innovative Air Quality Monitoring Bench

The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), the Myriad Botanical Gardens and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will unveil an innovative air quality monitoring park bench during a special ceremony at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at the Children’s Garden in the Myriad Botanical Gardens. “Oklahoma City is honored to be chosen as one of only five cities ...

Nov. 5, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Djoudj National Park restoration an immediate success

Djoudj National Park is a waterbird oasis located in the delta of the Senegal River separating Mauritania and Senegal. But invasive species are threatening to crowd out the birds. We recently witnessed how our small investment in restoration made a big difference for the birds and tourism. The question now is how can we sustain this progress by strengthening the funding model for the park? ...

Jun. 30, 2015

By Wetlands International

EPA Announces Installation of Park Benches with Solar-Powered Air Monitors in Five Cities/Village Green community park benches are located in Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Oklahoma City; Kansas City; Hartford

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the installation of five Village Green solar-powered air monitoring stations, fitted into park benches that will measure common air pollutants and weather conditions. The project puts science into the hands of citizens, allowing them to access local air quality information from the benches through on-site displays and a ...

Apr. 21, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Provides a Quarter Million Dollars to Protect Wetlands in New York

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $239,000 to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and the New York Natural Heritage Program at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry to better protect wetlands throughout the state. “Wetlands provide enormous environmental benefits, and help in alleviate harmful effects of climate change, such as ...

Dec. 15, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Spain-UNEP LifeWeb Conservation Initiative Wraps Up With Bid for Stronger Financing, Law Enforcement and Community Empowerment for Protected Areas

From the valuation of ecosystem services in El Salvador and Panama and the restoration of nearly 60 hectares of critical orangutan habitat in Indonesia to the use of conflict resolution to raise community support for conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Spain-UNEP LifeWeb initiative finds that better financing, community empowerment, monitoring, and law enforcement are ...

Nov. 14, 2014

By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

SST Sensing Launch New Generation of Sensor

SST Sensing are launching a number of new and improved gas sensors at this year’s World of Technology and Science exhibition in Holland. The new products fall into three new ranges. Firstly, versatile single gas analysers with interface electronics offering various outputs, either as an integrated solution or stand-alone. Additional features include linear output signal, high accuracy, ...

Oct. 1, 2014

By SST Sensing Ltd

EPA Provides Over $345,000 to Protect Wetlands in New York; Citizen Science to be Used in the Adirondacks to Collect Environmental Data

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded over $345,000 to the New York State Adirondack Park Agency and The College of Environmental Science and Forestry to better protect wetlands throughout the state and identify strategies to deal with New York’s changing climate. “Wetlands provide enormous economic environmental and flood protection benefits, but they are threatened ...

Dec. 10, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Improved Performance for Monitoring System DASMON that Handles Large Data Volumes at Chip-Producing Fabs

Newly-released version is capable of monitoring biggest equipment parks • DASMON monitors Point-of-Use Waste Gas Abatement Systems • Environmental Experts of DAS Environmental Expert GmbH present software update for DASMON monitoring solution at SEMICON Europa The Dresden-based specialist for environmental technology, DAS Environmental Expert GmbH not only provides solutions for waste ...

Oct. 8, 2013

By DAS Environmental Expert GmbH

Human population density explains alien species richness in protected areas

Protected areas near densely populated towns and cities have higher numbers of alien species than those in more isolated locations, research suggests. In a South African study, researchers examined a number of different environmental characteristics of national parks, and found that surrounding human population density best explained the number of alien species in each park. There are many ...

Sep. 1, 2013

By European Commission, Environment DG

Calif.`s Sierra a `living lab` for climate change

In parts of California's Sierra Nevada, marshy meadows are going dry, wildflowers are blooming earlier and glaciers are melting into ice fields. Scientists also are predicting the optimal temperature zone for giant sequoias will rise hundreds and hundreds of feet, leaving trees at risk of dying over the next 100 years. As indicators point toward a warming climate, scientists across 4 million ...

Jun. 30, 2013

By Associated Press

Vitogas recommends remote monitoring for all distribution companies

Vitogas uses our equipment to monitor their LPG tanks since 2006. Throughout the Spanish territory, ISA already monitors several hundreds of Vitogas sites. Telemetry of gas tanks allows Vitogas to save on logistics costs and to offer a value-added service to their customers. Vitogas Spain manages its distribution activity with the monitoring support in its tanks park. The ISA solution to ...

May 19, 2013

By Intelligent Sensing Anywhere (ISA)

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