Atlanta officials want to help redefine what it means for a city to be “smart.” In partnership with Fira de Barcelona, the City of Atlanta will host Smart City Expo…
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From Smart Bug Farms to Plant Data, Atlanta AgTech Challenge Kicks Off On the BeltLine
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinAgribusiness is Georgia’s number one industry, and is important across the Southeast at large. But with a projected 70 percent of the world’s population condensing in urban areas by the…
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Atlanta’s Open Checkbook: An Opportunity to Speak Softly and Carry A Big Statistic
This was a birthday present for me, though, late by one day — so maybe it was intended for Beyonce. Either way, on September 4, the City of Atlanta launched…
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What’s the Next Step For Smart Cities? According to Atlanta’s CIO, A City-Based Enterprise Data Platform
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinFor the last few years, Atlanta’s city government has been on a quest to utilize the latest technologies across IoT, big data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to tackle…
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AT&T Partners With City of Atlanta On Smart City Solutions Competition
by Muriel Vegaby Muriel VegaIn an effort to address Atlanta’s biggest issues, AT&T is partnering up with the City of Atlanta and Code for Atlanta, a local hack meetup group, to launch the Atlanta Civic Coding…
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While all Atlantans are certainly bemoaning the additional recent traffic crunch, the silver lining of the I-85 collapse may be additional resources and education on the many alternative commuting options…
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Wising Up Waste: Atlanta and Trash Tech Company Rubicon Pilot Smart City Program
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinThe Internet of Things is a booming industry. It seems like almost every ordinary device, from speakers and automobiles to housekeeping products, has a connected version nowadays (Case in point:…
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How Asante Bradford Ups the Ante on Georgia’s Entertainment Game
by Muriel Vegaby Muriel VegaMove over, Hollywood. Georgia’s digital entertainment industry has seen explosive growth in the past few years, jumping from number five three years ago to being tied for number three on the list…