Smart City Interview with the Open University

Smart City Interview with the Open University

A recent Smart City Interview between the Open University and KnowNow’s co-founder, David Patterson. Thanks for agreeing to this Smart City Interview. To start us off, how did you get involved in smart cities? David was IBM client Manager for Cardiff City and...
Humanising Smart Cities – TM Forum Review

Humanising Smart Cities – TM Forum Review

Smart Cities can be Citizen Centric Having presented at TM Forum in Nice about “Humanising Smart Cities” I wanted to follow up with my thoughts from the event and discuss what happens next.   The takeaways from the event are: Nice is a really cool city.  ...
Why Bristol is top of the UK Smart Cities Index

Why Bristol is top of the UK Smart Cities Index

Bristol is a Top UK Smart City Yesterday I attended the announcement of the first UK Smart Cities Index of top UK smart cities sponsored by Huawei and researched by Navigant.   A very interesting event hosted by The IET at the newly refurbished Savoy Place.  The...
Why Bristol is top of the UK Smart Cities Index

Future of Urban Portsmouth. Really?

Slightly surprised by what I heard. Today I was at an event hosted by University of Portsmouth at the Emirates Spinnaker Tower (quite possibly my favourite UK structure).  The event was to kick start a discussion on the future of urban Portsmouth.   Prof. Steffen...
Why Bristol is top of the UK Smart Cities Index

Smart City Design

Smart City Design Our simple mission is to bring smart city data to a useful conclusion,  in a safe, secure and sustainable manner.   KnowNow provides this design service today to customers globally.  How? The world around us is swamped with data.  Turning this data...
What makes a Smart City?

What makes a Smart City?

Or….5 things you need to do first Having just come back to the UK from a smart cities conversation on the other side of the world, I would like to share some thoughts.   The role of KnowNow is to prepare the IT architectural blueprint for this new smart place.  ...