A panel of three IBM SmartCamp 2010 finalists, including Streetline CEO and President Zia Yusuf, discuss their companies and experience during SmartCamp.

Gerry Mooney, General Manager of Global Smarter Cities at IBM, details how IBM and entrepreneurs are working together to reach the IBM vision of Smarter Cities 2.0.

Fighting traffic and finding parking are just two of the headaches most people associate with driving in modern cities. It’s estimated that 30% of the traffic in a city, a city like San Francisco here or Los Angeles is caused by people going around looking for parking. The video explores how taking a systems thinking approach these issues can help in the development of innovative solutions like start-up Streetline’s Parker application.

Sustainability is the biggest issue facing global business in the 21st century. While breakthroughs like improved battery technology will likely provide a solution to the CO2 challenge, another issue — “Global Gridlock” — is quietly taking its place.

Travelling by car in a modern city is a tense and frustrating experience. With greater numbers of cars on the roads, traffic jams are commonplace, but parking spaces ever harder to find. Now researchers in California are working on some smart solutions to these problems.

A new iPhone app may reduce the headache of finding parking spaces in downtown Fort Worth. The city is testing out the app that lets you know where available parking meters are located.

Finding a parking meter around Sundance Square just got easier thanks to a pilot program launched last week. The City of Fort Worth’s Transportation and Public Works Department have deployed “smart meters” along West Fourth Street. The meters use ultra-low-power sensors to see which spaces are available and make that information available to the public through a free smartphone app.

Finding a place to park at Sundance Square is now a little easier for iPhone users. Streetline Inc. debuted Fort Worth on its Parker iPhone application on Wednesday. With the free app, drivers can find out how many spots are open thanks to about a dozen sensors, which look like lane markers. 

Streetline CEO Zia Yusuf featured on SVForum’s New Sources of Data and Usage panel.

Finding a parking spot downtown can be a headache, so Rich DeMuro checks out a new Smartphone app “Parker” that might put an end to all of those extra laps around the block.

Bill Ford is a car guy — his great-grandfather was Henry Ford, and he grew up inside the massive Ford Motor Co. So when he worries about cars’ impact on the environment, and about our growing global gridlock problem, it’s worth a listen. His vision for the future of mobility includes “smart roads,” even smarter public transport and going green like never before.

Tired of looking for a parking space here in the Los Angeles area? Well, there’s an app for that… in its test phase anyway. Here’s how it works. The app, called Parker, is being tested in in Hollywood. Specifically, it has been implemented on 286 metered parking spaces along Hollywood Boulevard between Vine and La Brea. Each of those is now fitted with sensors to report parking status.

L.A.’s “Parker” app helps you find available parking in Hollywood and will soon be coming to a city near you. See how it works on Talking Tech.

GOOD Magazine founder Ben Goldhirsch introduces the idea of wireless parking in an effort to reinvent daily commutes and improve urban infrastructure.

A new iPhone application named “Parker” was unveiled Wednesday. The new app is the nation’s first-ever mobile application delivering drivers a faster and more convenient way to find open metered parking spaces.

Zia Yusuf (President and CEO Streetline) gives a the perfect 6 min pitch at IBM SmartCamp World Finals­ a great mixture of clarity, passion, and humour.

Find out what set Streetline apart from more than 600 competitors at IBM’s SmartCamp and watch CEO Zia Yusuf accept the award naming Streetline the world’s smartest startup.

Watch Streetline and CareCloud be named winners in IBM’s SmartCamp contest for the best startup companies.

This mini-documentary about IBM’s SmartCamp contest for startups reveals how IBM and its partners measure, understand, and build smart systems.

Watch Streetline sensors in action, and see how parking meters are getting an upgrade that will soon let you pay for parking from your mobile phone.