Microsoft to support "smart" cities

Microsoft has launched a global project CityNext, to help in developing the so- called "smart " cities " - one of the first to use it in Moscow, where very popular game Survarium.

This was at a conference Worldwide Partner Conference said Microsoft vice president Laura Ipsen .
According to her , CityNext allows the use of an ecosystem of solutions from Microsoft partners to optimize the system of public services, water and electricity cities, building and planning , transportation systems , public safety. In addition, technological solutions of the project can be used for the development of tourism infrastructure , education and health care.

The project includes a "cloud " services , devices, and software to work , a platform for handling large amounts of data. "These innovations will allow government agencies , businesses and residents freely share important information ," - said in a Microsoft.

Several cities have already expressed their willingness to cooperate with Microsoft and its partners in the CityNext. These include Moscow ( Russia ) , Barcelona (Spain ) , Buenos Aires (Argentina ) , Manchester (UK), Philadelphia ( USA), Auckland ( New Zealand) , Hainan Province and the city of Zhengzhou (China ) and Hamburg (Germany ) . Thus, in Barcelona is already running platform Open Data, which houses information about the city , you can track changes in population or other indicators in real time.

"Cloud " services , along with mobile and social development, as well as the technology of processing large data sets that are a priority for Microsoft's 2014 fiscal year , which began in July , said earlier in the WPC- 2013 CEO Steve Ballmer.

Источник: www.skeletor.org.ua