Smart City

How smart is your city?

31 Jan 2023

[Infographic] From smart pavements to waste systems, the power of technological innovation is allowing more and more cities to get smarter. Could your city be smarter than you think it is?

How the Internet of Things will be good for the planet

15 Dec 2021

A new generation of smart tractors is reducing the use of pesticides. How? By using high-resolution cameras to avoid spraying weeds. It's just one example of how the IoT revolution can make humankind more productive while also protecting the environment

The 5G Industrial IoT – how it will change different verticals

19 Nov 2021

Put sensors into products and you can track them across the entire supply chain. You can study the data to make constant improvements. This is just one of many big changes coming thanks to the Industrial IoT...

Nice: security at the cutting edge of technology

09 Oct 2019

The innovative SafeCity project, launched in 2018 to make France's smart cities safer, is a three-year, collaborative research and development initiative led by Thales. The city of Nice is becoming the pilot of safety in France by initiating full-scale tests to demonstrate what is supposed to happen in laboratories. The first smart-city in France, the city of Nice will very soon be considered as one of the first "SAFE-CITY" in Europe, still as pleasant to live for its inhabitants, better protected, more resilient and more attractive. Thales is the lead partner in this 3-year collaborative research and development project.

Making cities safer through networks of people and technology

14 Oct 2019

Thales and its local partners help cities to be safer with integrated supervision platform processing data from multiple sensors starting with video, to better detect, understand and respond to threats.

Connected cars: keeping people safe and protecting their data

04 Oct 2018

Car manufacturers, Tier1 suppliers and Thales are together in a race against time. Vehicles are perhaps one of the most ‘connected’ objects in the new epoch of the Internet of Things. So how do we protect them from potential cyberthreats?

AI: in the beginning was the algorithm

23 Jan 2019

It takes an expert in cybersecurity and low-energy systems to develop an AI that will differentiate itself from much of the inefficient tech of today. Thales is developing new ways to minimise AI energy use, in the aircraft cockpit and beyond. Read on.

Singapore - the world's first smart city?

30 May 2017

From cutting-edge transport to virtual healthcare, we look at the some of the ways Singapore is leading the way with its Smart Nation initiative