MESH Cities Operating Manual: Chapter One

What is a MESH City? We argue that MESH Cities are the next generation of the so-called smart city. Let’s start with defining what that is.

Scientific American produced this short video to explain smart energy grids and why they are important to an urban dweller’s quality of life.

The World Economic Forum also has a video on the smart grid and its benefits. This video is not quite as user friendly as the Scientific American version.

In fact, it strikes someone from our generation as a bit like those “Reddy Kilowatt” ads from the last century, mashed together with a Europunk voice over.

Still, the WEF video offers some insights into the hows and whys of smart grid.

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Robert Ouellette, Chief Researcher
MESH Cities’ founder Robert Ouellette researches, develops, and distributes the best-practice processes and technology solutions that empower responsive, competitive, and sustainable cities. MESH stands for Mobile, Efficient, Subtle, Human Cities. MESH Cities evangelises the innovations, people, and ideas making positive change happen in cities shaped by information. In 2019 Robert received the “Clean50” Award for thought leadership in sustainability. The Guardian Newspaper selected MESH Cities as a go-to information source on smart cities.