This week’s Smart City roundup features a new WiFi SDHC card, smart city initiative extends to U.K., how millions of dollars are saved in smart building initiatives, and a smart cleaning service for the office.

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Eyefi’s WiFi SDHC card

Eyefi, Inc. introduced the Mobi Pro, a 32GB SDHC memory with built-in WiFi which allows users to connect their camera to their smartphone, tablet, PC or Mac at lightning speeds. Mobi Pro allows transfers of RAW and JPEG images using your existing WiFi network or its own private, secure WiFi network that is built into the card. It has a selective transfer feature that allows you to choose which images will be transferred your other devices.

The 32GB Mobi Pro costs $99.99 and can store up to 16,000 photos or 12 hours of video. It includes a one-year membership to the Eyefi Cloud service, valued at $49.99. Eyefi Cloud is a private, photocentric cloud service that organizes your photos and videos and syncs them to any of your chosen web-enabled device.

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Silver Spring chosen for ‘Bristol is Open’ smart city program

The Bristol City Council and the University of Bristol in the U.K. launched ‘Bristol is Open,’ a smart city program, and have chosen Silver Spring Networks, Inc. to deploy its standards-based IPv6 wireless network across the city to connect a variety of sensors and ultimately creating a ‘living innovation lab.’

Silver Spring will also connect existing city assets, such as street lights, in the Brunel Mile and other centrally located areas to allow Bristol to rapidly demonstrate the economic and energy benefits of intelligent street lighting. The network canopy can also be utilized for other smart city implementations such as parking meters, traffic light and congestion sensors, safety cameras, air quality sensors, weather sensors, public transportation sensors, remote personal healthcare monitors and acoustic detection.

The resulting sensor data and insights to prototype new smart city applications and services will be available for qualified start-up businesses, entrepreneurs and academic institutions.

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Carnegie Mellon to save $2M in utilities from IBM partnership

In partnership with IBM, Carnegie Mellon University will be installing the new  IBM Building Management Center in 36 of its facilities on its Pittsburgh campus which is delivered on the IBM SoftLayer cloud. Carnegie is the first higher education institution to utilize IBM’s cloud-based analytics system to monitor thousands of data points from building automation and control systems and will also be able to detect system problems and trigger corrective actions to reduce energy and facility operating costs. Carnegie expects to save as much as 10 percent or $2 million annually on utility costs.

“On its own, the deployment of this technology will drive significant energy and operational savings with a very attractive return on investment. Just as important, improved building performance enhances the occupant experience and provides a much more effective education and research environment,” said Donald Coffelt, associate vice president for Carnegie Mellon’s Facilities Management Services, in a prepared statement. “This technology offers us important gains in initiatives related to advanced infrastructure systems research, the Pittsburgh 2030 initiative and a more proactive building and infrastructure management model.”

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Managed by Q

If you’re looking for an affordable way to keep the office immaculately clean as well as keeping your supplies in check and having people readily available when something needs fixing, then Managed by Q is a service that you should look into.

When you sign up for Managed by Q, it will help you determine when’s the best day to have your office cleaned as well as take the initiative to work with your landlord or building manager to get its insurance on file and document building access times and restrictions. The company will install a Q iPad in your office, which connects to your office’s Wi-Fi network where you can create your custom checklist of tasks to be accomplished during cleaning days as well as create a list of your supplies that needs to be restocked for your team. If you encounter any problems, you can use the Q iPad to contact the Q operations team to discuss any of your concerns.

Managed by Q is currently operational in New York and its clients include Kickstarter, bitly, Elite Daily and others but it is hoping to expand its operations during the first half of 2015.