Smart cities

StarHub CEO Nikhil Eapen says that decommissioning legacy systems will spark three things: sustained revenue growth. a tailing-off of transformation spend, and harnessing of efficiencies.

TOPLINE

StarHub on the cusp of reaping season

Telco will be decommissioning costly legacy systems, starting in the middle of this year, and is also working on wrapping up its cloud transformation

Environsens chief executive Shailesh Kharkwal shows off his company's water filtration capabilities. Networking opportunities from consortium leaders have allowed Environsens to pitch its solutions to state governments.

SGSME

Taking the consortium route into India

Introductions and shared resources help SMEs crack this tricky market

Co-founder and chief executive of Elixir Technology, Lau Shih Hor, believes joining a consortium will help the company have a fruitful entry into the Indian market.

SGSME

Elixir Technology makes third foray into India market

AFTER two unsuccessful attempts at entering the Indian market, the third time could be the charm for software company Elixir Technology, which is making this attempt as a member of a consortium.

The jury is still out on whether smart cities truly live up to their ambition of offering people a better quality of life -- which is more than the promise of easy, safe, and ecological living.

Opinion & Features

PERSPECTIVE

Smart cities should be people-centric, but is that really the case?

The promise of smart cities is appealing, but technology too often takes centrestage

Thoughtful recycling of household waste is one of several smart urban practices that are prevalent in Constance, Germany.

Opinion & Features

Becoming ‘climate-smart’ – lessons from Constance

DURING a recent study trip, I had the opportunity to visit Constance (German: Konstanz), a walkable and bicycle-friendly university city with some 83,000 residents located at the western end of Lake C...

Solar panels on a factory roof in Singapore. Governments can encourage such investments through tax rebates, subsidies, grants – and clear sustainability roadmaps.

Columns

Emerging stronger with smart and sustainable cities

ECONOMIC growth can no longer be pursued at the expense of climate change and environmental degradation. The theme of the upcoming World Cities Summit, “Liveable and Sustainable Cities: Emerging Stron...

Harnessing data about building performance allows for the development of the concept of digital real estate.

Columns

Digital real estate: going beyond mere space

OVER the past few years, traditional operating models have been considerably disrupted across many sectors. However, few sectors have felt it more than commercial real estate (CRE). Though this disrup...

As cities look to make better use of emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning, engagement with affected communities is becoming more important. A lot more time will have to be spent evaluating, say, the impact of these technologies before they are rolled out

Columns

As technology matures, smart cities take a more nuanced, human-centred approach

Loke Siew Yeng

Companies & Markets

ST Engineering bags international smart city projects, defence contract

SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) on Monday (Nov 15) said it has secured a smart city project in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan for S$445 million.

Lifestyle

THE WINDING ROAD

The smart city of the future

It should be more human-centric than technology-centric, bringing new possibilities for work, life, and play for its inhabitants

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