Smart Cities and sensors
Technology that quantifies the physical environment, such as traffic or environmental factors
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Münchner Cluster für die Zukunft der Mobilität in Metropolregionen – Innovationen für den Mobilitätswandel (MCube)
Innovations for the mobility transition
Curb Data Specification (CDS)
A digital tool that helps cities and companies pilot and scale dynamic curb zones. CDS provides a mechanism for expressing static and dynamic regulations, measuring activity at the curb, and developin...
Air Quality Time Series Forecasting Using Machine Learning Algorithms
This study aimed to develop accurate short-term air quality forecasting models for Asunción, Paraguay using machine learning algorithms.
Automotus
tackling safety hazards, congestion, compliance and emissions. automated curb management for cities + airports
Urban Tech Summit
The Summit will offer practical insights and examples of how researchers, companies, governments, and communities can continue to drive innovation amid these headwinds—and how urban tech can help citi...
Smart City Data Governance
Key trends in smart city data governance
STRONG Manoomin Collective
The STRONG Manoomin Collective is a tribally-driven research effort that aims to strengthen Ojibwe resilience by supporting development of scientific and environmental governance capacity.
Waymo
Miami-Dade County SMART Curbs Program
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Boston Curb Usage Map
To solve these challenges, the Streets Cabinet and Innovation and Technology Cabinet are building a digital map of Boston’s complex curb network and regulations.
MeshPoint One
MeshPoint One believes that access to Internet is one of basic human rights. Their mission is to enable Internet access and improve the quality of life for people in disaster struck areas. Also by emp...
Automating School Surveillance: How Student Vape Detection Technologies Threaten to Expand the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Minnesota and Beyond
Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024
End Police Surveillance
ShotSpotter creates thousands of unfounded police deployments, fuels unconstitutional stop-and-frisk, and can lead to false arrests.
Smart Columbus
SAGA Smart Machinaka Project
The SAGA Smart Machinaka Project is a demonstration project that aims to improve the convenience of the city center of Saga City through the use of technologies such as AI and IoT, and to create a cit...
Chicago Truck Count
Counting trucks for environmental justice
Media Awareness and Justice Initiative (MAJI)
Using Technology to Empower Rural and urban last mile communities across Nigeria
When 'doing ethics' meets public procurement of smart city technology – an Amsterdam case study
[A] multi-stakeholder co-design project – including a citizen panel – is an integral part of the process in which the service is designed and realized
The Atlas of Urban Tech
A global atlas of case studies of tech-enabled urban districts and municipal digital masterplans.
Air Quality Improvement and Monitoring
6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines
The Things Network New York
Let's build an open, free and community-owned IoT data network for New York!
The Things Network
We are a global collaborative Internet of Things ecosystem that creates networks, devices and solutions using LoRaWAN®.
Smart Districts
Smart Districts (Dublin) are strategically selected locations where innovation projects are fast-tracked.
Academy of the Near Future
Ireland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.
Innovate Project Project Use Cases
Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods
Atlas of Urban AI
ATLAS is a crowdsourced (map) repository of projects happening in cities involving the use of artificial intelligence systems.
BLOXHUB
BLOXHUB is the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization.
DOLL Living Lab
Our expansive 1.5 km2 industrial area, frequented by over 10,000 daily users, functions as a vibrant physical testing space of smart city environments – now also offering a real-world platform with a...
Nordic Smart City Network
The Nordic Smart City Network is a collaboration initiative joining five Nordic countries, and currently 20 Nordic cities with a common goal: to explore the Nordic way to create livable and sustainabl...
Copenhagen Solutions Lab
At Copenhagen Solutions Lab, we support the development of the city through testing and implementation of intelligent and data-driven solutions, that support the needs of the city and its citizens.
Location Aware Sensing System (LASS) Environmental Sensor Network
LASS (Location Aware Sensing System) is an open source and public welfare "environmental sensor network system". 是一套開源和公益的「環境感測器網路系統」
C² Challenge
The C² Challenge provides an open-ended innovation process for government procurement that removes the need to meet specific requirements and provides an open door to business and academic innovators...
Urban Platform
A web solution designed for governments that provides the digital twin of the city, and delivers a real-time view of every street, plus insightful analytics to support decision-making and increase th...
Living-in.EU
Join us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans
Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech
Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.
Smart Cities Certificate
The certificate in Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary program designed for working or aspiring professionals and upper-level students interested in expanding their knowledge-base in the fields of em...
Maai Makwa (My Water)
Deploying Open Data to Enable Kenyan Households & Communities Conserve Fresh Water Resources, including civic literacy campaigns and IoT monitoring of water supply and quality
Reuters uses Airtags to investigate recycling program
A Reuters special report investigating global supply chains and sustainability programs
#STOPSHOTSPOTTER
A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."
Low-Cost Sensors and Systems for Ocean Discovery
We are creating low-cost, easy-to-use deep-sea systems that gather the most critical data to inform environmental decision-making and deployment strategies.
ShakeAlert®
An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States
Accelerator for America
Accelerator for America and Honeywell Collaborate to Promote Smart City Growth in Five U.S. Cities
Canadian Municipal Information Systems Association
The national voice of municipalities relating to information and communications technology.
The Sounds of CDMX
This is an audio/visual story exploring the sounds of Mexico City’s streets.
Smart cities and data protection: possible routes
InternetLab, ARTICLE 19 and LAPIN launch a policy paper with recommendations on smart cities and personal data protection.
Ecobee Donate your Data program
Sharing anonymized data from your ecobee smart thermostat can help scientists advance the way to a sustainable future. JOIN NOW
IDC Smart Cities Awards
To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).
Toward a Smarter Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure -- Smart Sensors and Self-Monitoring Civil Works
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.
Whose Streets report
Harvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.
Current Water
Current is Chicago’s water innovation hub.