Schneider Electric’s approach to building and managing the smart city
A new article in The Guardian assesses Schneider Electric's approach to the smart city.
Being smart means a lot of things to Annie Xu Hongyan, the senior vice-president for the Smart Cities initiative at Schneider Electric, a French energy management company that offers infrastructure solutions to new urban problems. It means not sacrificing long-term thinking for short-term wins, being pragmatic when it comes to managing the environment but also knowing when to get personal. "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children," says Xu, referring to a well-known idiom to explain why sustainability matters to her.
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