Bristol, United Kingdom – A city as smart as its citizens

IoT is not just about speed, capacity, or flexibility. IoT is about opportunity, aspiration and possibility.

In 2015, the city of Bristol, UK, won the European Green Capital award, due to its commitment to improving sustainable standards and last year it was crowned the leader in the 2016 UK Smart Cities Index. The list of awards goes on and on.

What’s driving this success is the unique digital infrastructure in place, offering 30 Gbps fibre broadband networking capability to its citizens. A new home of entrepreneurial tech industries is here. In fact, their commitment to ensuring connectivity in the city is so great, that they’re investing millions of pounds to explore the possibilities of technology. Watch and learn more about Bristol is Open, and why other cities around the globe are looking to Bristol, UK as a leader in open innovation.

[yogenderrana]

Please launch this initiative in INDIA to make cities smarter

[robinmjones]

Nice film, This all sounds really good except for a few things;
Retro fitting of street lights, installing arrays on sides of buildings with 5g cells will deliver unknown negative health effects on us, let alone bird and insect life.The frequencies pulsed from these cells has not been investigated enough. The technology is uninsurable. General public have not been consulted

[sureshot]

Mandatory radiation poisoning. Thanks for that!