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Technology that quantifies the physical environment, such as traffic or environmental factors
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End Police Surveillance
Chicago, ILShotSpotter creates thousands of unfounded police deployments, fuels unconstitutional stop-and-frisk, and can lead to false arrests.
Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024
SAGA Smart Machinaka Project
Saga, JapanThe 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 city that is easy to live in.
Counting trucks for environmental justice
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
Amsterdam[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
Cornell TechA global atlas of case studies of tech-enabled urban districts and municipal digital masterplans.
Let's build an open, free and community-owned IoT data network for New York!
The Things Network
AmsterdamWe are a global collaborative Internet of Things ecosystem that creates networks, devices and solutions using LoRaWAN®.
Air Quality Improvement and Monitoring
New York City6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines
Atlas of Urban AI
Barcelona, SpainATLAS is a crowdsourced (map) repository of projects happening in cities involving the use of artificial intelligence systems.
Smart Districts
Dublin, IrelandSmart Districts (Dublin) are strategically selected locations where innovation projects are fast-tracked.
Academy of the Near Future
Dublin, IrelandIreland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.
Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods
DOLL Living Lab
CopenhagenOur 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 digital twin for urban innovation at a 1:1 scale.
BLOXHUB
CopenhagenBLOXHUB is the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization.
Nordic Smart City Network
EuropeThe 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 sustainable cities.
Copenhagen Solutions Lab
CopenhagenAt 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
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)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
DenverThe 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 to propose new ways of solving a problem.
Urban Platform
PortugalA 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 the efficiency of the city operations.
Living-in.EU
Estonia (Eesti Vabariik)Join us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans
Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech
Cornell TechMaking cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.
Smart Cities Certificate
DenverThe 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 emerging urban technologies, data science, sustainable design, and public-private partnerships.
Maai Makwa (My Water)
KenyaDeploying Open Data to Enable Kenyan Households & Communities Conserve Fresh Water Resources, including civic literacy campaigns and IoT monitoring of water supply and quality
A Reuters special report investigating global supply chains and sustainability programs
#STOPSHOTSPOTTER
United States of America (the)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
Rhode IslandWe are creating low-cost, easy-to-use deep-sea systems that gather the most critical data to inform environmental decision-making and deployment strategies.
Accelerator for America
Cleveland, OhioAccelerator for America and Honeywell Collaborate to Promote Smart City Growth in Five U.S. Cities
An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States
The national voice of municipalities relating to information and communications technology.
The Sounds of CDMX
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoThis is an audio/visual story exploring the sounds of Mexico City’s streets.
Smart cities and data protection: possible routes
Brazil (Brasil)InternetLab, ARTICLE 19 and LAPIN launch a policy paper with recommendations on smart cities and personal data protection.
Sharing anonymized data from your ecobee smart thermostat can help scientists advance the way to a sustainable future. JOIN NOW
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
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAThe 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 University, Cambridge, MA, USAHarvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.
Empowering a faster, smarter emergency response Contextual emergency data: e.g
Current Water
Chicago, ILCurrent is Chicago’s water innovation hub.
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 local government, industry partners, and communities to collect real-time data on urban environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use
Numina
Brooklyn, NYNumina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.
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 (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)
A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers, by Shannon Mattern
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
Oxford, UKWe've been organising a programme of citizen science to measure air pollution since 2013
Bruitparif
Axe Pleyel 4 B104 32 boulevard Ornano 93200 Saint-Denis ParisCette 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 européenne 2002/49/CE.
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, we provide reliable
SmogOff
CornwallWe'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.
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