![[Translate to English:] Tablet mit Smart Home Control App](/fileadmin/Bilder_HAC/Aktuelle_Beitraege/Aktuelle_Beitraege_Studie_Umweltbundesamt_848x365.jpg "[Translate to English:] Smart Home Control")
How can smart products in the energy sector's end customer market help reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Researchers at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and CO2-online investigated this question on behalf of the German Federal Environment Agency. The results of the study clearly…
![[Translate to English:] Stadt Bergheim Team Smart City](/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktuelle_Beitraege_Stadt-Bergheim_848x365.jpg "[Translate to English:] Stadt Bergheim Team Smart City")
The course has been set: the district town of Bergheim has set itself the goal of decisively advancing its intelligent development. Like many other towns in the Rhenish lignite mining area in North Rhine-Westphalia, the district town with a population of around 65,000 is facing considerable…
![[Translate to English:] Smart-City-Ranking 2021](/fileadmin/Bilder_HAC/Aktuelle_Beitraege/Aktuelle_Beitrage_Smart_City_Ranking_2020.jpg "[Translate to English:] Smart-City-Ranking 2021")
In just a few weeks, it will be that time again: the results of this year's smart city study “Digital Germany: Smart City Ranking 2021” by Haselhorst Associates will be published in early October. The final evaluations are already revealing some surprises. For example, there will be quite a few…
![[Translate to English:] Glasfaser Kabel](/fileadmin/Bilder_HAC/Aktuelle_Beitraege/Aktuelle_Beitraege_Dschungelfu__hrer_848x365.jpg "[Translate to English:] Dschungelführer 2021")
Exactly 25 years ago, Deutsche Telekom's monopoly ended with the enactment of the Telecommunications Act. Shortly thereafter, the first business directory for the now liberalized German telecommunications market, the Dschungelführer, was published. For the current edition, we at Haselhorst…
![[Translate to English:] White Paper](/fileadmin/Bilder_HAC/Aktuelle_Beitraege/Aktuelle_Beitraege_WP-Handlungsempf_848x365.jpg "[Translate to English:] Whitepaper Smart City Handlungsempfehlungen")
The topic of “smart cities” still poses major challenges for many cities and municipalities. While both staffing issues and financing problems are considered obstacles to digital urban development, it is above all the question of a suitable strategic approach that is causing headaches for city…