Smart Cities

City of Fort Worth Joins North Texas Innovation Alliance

by | Nov 6, 2023
The NTXIA said that Fort Worth's coming on board signifies "a major step" toward the city's continued commitment to enhancing quality of life, safety, public health, and welfare of residents in the region through "a data-driven approach." The Panther City joins more than 40 municipalities, agencies, corporations, and academic institutions already in the alliance.
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Dallas’ FIFA World Cup 2026 Tech Roundtable Takes the Long View, With a Smart City Focus
by | Jun 29, 2023
Spearheaded by the North Texas Innovation Alliance, initial planning for the 2026 event foresees lasting regional benefits ranging from public safety and energy efficiency to traffic management.
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Irving’s VicOne Expands DFI Partnership on Cybersecurity for Connected Cars and Smart Cities
by | Mar 31, 2023
VicOne—an Irving-based provider of automotive cybersecurity solutions—wants to make it safer to share data in "vehicle-to-everything environments." To help do that, it's expanding its partnership with Taiwan's DFI, a global provider of embedded motherboards and industrial computers. See how their "advanced embedded" solutions could lead to fully interconnected transportation with smart cities environments.
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NTT Data Opens North American Innovation Center in Plano
NTT Data is expanding its Plano presence with the opening of a new North American Innovation Center, where it will focus on customer-facing tech including areas like 5G, smart city planning, and “digital humans”—virtual models of the human body for medical research. The new center will coordinate with five other NTT Data innovation centers in Japan, Italy, Germany, China, and India.
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North Texas Innovation Alliance Teams Up to Supersize New Smart City Partnership

by | Oct 5, 2021
The NTXIA is a founding member of the new National Smart Coalitions Partnership, now one of the largest smart cities networks in the country. The organization unites more than 100 governments across seven regional smart cities consortiums. The goal? To accelerate sustainability and resilience in communities.
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‘Best Minds’: North Texas Smart City Consortium Launches with 21 Founding Members
The nonprofit North Texas Innovation Alliance—the largest of its kind in the U.S.—brings together cities, counties, municipalities, and agencies to tackle pressing challenges with innovative solutions. First up, the group will look at the effects of COVID-19. With the launch, NTXIA joins Mastercard's City Possible network that advances inclusive and sustainable development
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Beyond Smart Cities: Dallas Ranks High in Global Cities’ AI Readiness Index
by | Oct 11, 2019
Dallas is third in the nation among large cities that rank for urban AI resilience and readiness in the rise of the 'Fourth Industrial Revolution,' according to The Oliver Wyman Forum.
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The Luminary: New Office Building Boosts West End as Center for Innovation
by | Jun 28, 2019
From 15 feet below the earth to 109 feet in the sky, The Luminary has overcome hurdles to bring a new look to a historic district.
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Mapping, Crowd-Sourced Data Key Elements in City of Richardson’s Smart City Game Plan

by | May 20, 2019
From bobcat sightings to blocked lanes and bike trails to public art, the City of Richardson is collecting and taming data to keep folks informed.
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Summit: Experts Talk Balancing Realities With ‘Gee-Whiz Tech’ for Smarter Cities
by | Sep 22, 2018
At the North Texas Smart Cities Summit, IT specialists, engineers, public officials, and civil servants pondered the possibilities and perils of smart city technology that's ever closer to becoming commonplace. Dave Moore has the takeaway.
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A Walk in the Parks: Study Notes Dallas’ Efforts to Improve its Existing Greenspace
by | Aug 22, 2018
The Trust for Public Lands study released Wednesday shows that 60 percent of Dallas residents live within a 10-minute walk to a park.
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‘High-tech Park’ from NY High Line Designer Coming to Dallas’ West End
by | Aug 16, 2018
The West End Plaza at Market and Corbin streets is part of the ongoing developments in the neighborhood where the Dallas Innovation Alliance is piloting smart cities tech.
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Society Honors Frisco’s 4 Traffic Data Programs

by | Jan 29, 2018
The Texas Chapter of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America recently honored Frisco for its traffic data programs.
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Pitch Perfect: North Texas Events Boosting Entrepreneurial Ideas
From formalized accelerator pitch days for startups to events encouraging social innovation, here are the notable events helping bring ideas to reality in North Texas.
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South Dallas Project With Toyota, New Smart Tech in West End on Tap for DIA in 2018
by | Jan 24, 2018
Toyota leaders joined officials from Dallas and the Dallas Innovation Alliance for a special event Tuesday to announce the new smart city projects.
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AT&T Smart Cities Moves Into Infrastructure Safety With New Monitoring System
by | Jan 11, 2018
Selected infrastructure around the country will be equipped with AT&T LTE-enabled sensors to remotely monitor their structural integrity.
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