Smart Cities and sensors

Array of Things

An intelligent urban measurement project that’s changing our understanding of cities and urban life. The Array of Things (AoT) is a collaborative effort among scientists, universities, federal and lo...

RapidSOS

Empowering a faster, smarter emergency response Contextual emergency data: e.g

Air Matters

Providing real-time Air Quality Index & Allergy Pollen & Weather Data, as well as Protection Recommendations and Forecast.

A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative and Distributed Governance

A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)

A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers, by Shannon Mattern

FaceBit

Small and easily secured into any face mask, FaceBit is accompanied by a mobile application that provides a user interface and facilitates research.

Network for Clean Air

We've been organising a programme of citizen science to measure air pollution since 2013

Nexleaf Analytics

We create data and technology solutions for better health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. By working alongside health advocates, governments, local communities, donors, and manufacturers...

Bruitparif

Cette plateforme mise en œuvre par Bruitparif centralise les cartes stratégiques de bruit (CSB) disponibles au sein de la région Île-de-France dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de la directive europée...

SmogOff

We'll be looking at ways to visualise air pollution in situ and in real time, so people can see the pollution levels on their streets.

Mapping Makoko

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

BeeMonitor

Open source project using Raspberry Pis and sensors to learn about the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years.

Ride Report

From bikes to scooters and everything in between, dockless mobility offers cities a range of new options and challenges. Ride Report is your comprehensive toolset to manage emerging mobility services.

ShotSpotter

ShotSpotter is the leader in gunshot detection solutions that helps law enforcement officials and security personnel identify, locate and deter gun violence

Boston Smart Cities Playbook

World Smart City Awards

The World Smart City Awards seek to recognize pioneering projects, ideas and strategies that promote sustainable urban development around the globe.

Google Acclima partnership

Aclima announces a new partnership with Google Earth Outreach to map and better understand outdoor air quality.

Jakarta Smart City

Issue reporting, cameras, and sensors to improve government efficiency in Jakarta

Smart cities: Digital solutions for a more livable future

a McKinsey report

Placemeter

Placemeter is an open urban intelligence platform. Create your account to automatically quantify pedestrian and vehicular movement for a selected area: streets, parks, stores, and much more.

The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

Waze Connected Citizens

Over a thousand cities and other public sector partners are already working with Waze to gain better data and insights; reduce driving alone with Waze Carpool; and to make their communities safer with...

Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

Audit of the Administration of the Internet of Things

In this audit, we obtained an understanding of the Commonwealth’s current IoT environment in terms of device use and planned use by surveying a sample of Commonwealth agencies (see Appendix) where we...

StreetLogic Pro (previously WayCount)

SONYC Sounds of New York City

SONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.

Smart City Wien Framework Strategy

A smart city framework created by the city of Vienna

Open Energy Monitor

Open source monitoring for understanding energy

OptiRTC

Opti prepares today's infrastructure for tomorrow's storms. We provide Continuous Monitoring and Adaptive Control (CMAC) of stormwater systems at watershed scale.

Pollution Explorers

Wearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technol...

Beta Blocks

Exploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.

Boston's Smart Streets page

City page covers which tracking technologies are in place, why, and what they mean for privacy

Waag

Waag operates at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. Our work focuses on emergent technologies as instruments of social change, and is guided by the values of fairness, openness and...

Link NYC

LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.

Breezometer

Check out the world leading Air Pollution API.

Luftdaten

Measure air quality yourself

PakAirQuality

Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR)

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR) is an open-source communication standard to increase the transparency, legibility and accountability of digital technology in the built environment.

Bloomberg Philanthropies Government Innovation program

APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES

Intel's Big Data for Precision Farming

Intel is working with University of California, Davis, to perfect irrigation techniques by placing sensors in crops and other strategic areas to monitor soil and air moisture levels.

Taggespiegel Bike Data Interactiv

Wir messen, wo Autos Radfahrer eng überholen.

Soofa

Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.

iSeeChange

Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.

CivicSmart

Innovation has been at the core of our corporate DNA since 1936, and the last several years have seen a wave of innovation that is delivering the promise of Smart Parking to cities of all sizes.​

Purple Air

A low cost air quality sensor network providing real time measurement of air quality on a public map.

Calgary's noise-sensing network

Calgary’s LoRaWAN — a long-range, low power digital wireless network — sensors will be used to categorize noises like gun shots, trains, construction and road noise through the work of a government pa...

Safecast

Sea Level Rise Toolbox

Interactive mapping tool for visualizing the effects of rising see levels

Hello Lampost

The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.

Hush City

With Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.