Our urban cityscapes are about to be totally transformed.
The buildings of the future might come with solar cells invisibly embedded in their windows or have systems that automatically detect water leaks and book their own repairs.
There are advertising billboards which can detect overcrowding at a train station and show targeted timed ads to lure people away from the crowds.
All of these are real products being developed which form a new ecosystem of hardware, apps and services built around the idea of so-called ‘smart cities’.
In the first episode of our new Smart Cities series, we spoke to Eric Van der Kleij, co-founder and managing director of ENTIQ and head of Canary Wharf Group’s Level39, to find out the future trends you need to know about.
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