Information Technology

28 Dec 2015  |  North America  |  Market Research

Public Safety ICT in the North American Smart City

A $10-billion Opportunity in 2016–2020

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AAs part of the transition to Smart Cities, municipal leaders have embraced technological solutions for public safety priorities in the field of law enforcement, emergency response, and courts and corrections. Many of these departments in the United States and Canada use outdated systems and protocols that are cumbersome and inefficient. ICT provid...

This market analysis study provides market sizing and forecasts for the North American contact center outsourcing market. The North American market revenue represents outsourced revenues associated with customer interactions that originated in North America, regardless of fulfillment model. This includes onshore, nearshore, offshore, home-agent, au...

The payment industry is transforming rapidly with many interesting technologies emerging on a regular basis. Most of these solutions are disruptive and strongly impact the way companies and individuals communicate and interact. As a result, the payment ecosystem is also changing.

Open Data has sparked increasing excitement in recent years. It reflects data that had previously been locked away and limited in application to uses by the data owner opening up to the general public.

The hottest trend in machine learning is to give away stuff for free. Tech companies have always been advocates of the open-source community and often release code using an open-source license. Over the last year, however, market leaders in machine learning have given away complete codebases.

As the largest event in the world dedicated to the future of cities, the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona brought together urban planners, public administrators, and technology innovators to debate a more citizen-centric vision for the connected urban space.

Although the financial services, telecommunication, and retail industries have been investing in Big Data analytics (BDA) for a while, adoption by utilities is still at a relatively early stage—partly because of their predominantly cautious mentality.

Bitcoin is a powerful and successful digital currency. Based on cryptography and a decentralized ledger, it has simultaneously been heralded as the future of finance and a gateway to the criminal underworld.

The North American broadband market ended the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15) with an estimated 108.5 million subscribers, a year-over-year (YoY) increase of 4.0 million subscribers. Broadband providers offering cable, fiber to the x, and satellite contributed to the increase in subscribers.