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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.
Smart City Expo World Congress
Barcelona SpainSmart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.
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
EstoniaJoin 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
An iconography and lexicon for communicating which technologies are in use in public places
#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."
Great King Machines
IndiaWe manufacture embedded city maintenance machines for city civic and green agencies to upgrade to new standards of service to the citizens.
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.
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.
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
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. AoT uses an open intelligent sensing and edge computing platform called Waggle, developed at Argonne National Laboratory. AoT was funded primarily by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Empowering a faster, smarter emergency response Contextual emergency data: e.g. precise location, medical profile, and real-time sensor data One centralized platform: Securely sends data to public safety agencies worldwide Developed together with public safety: Seamlessly fits into existing public safety workflows
To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).
Current Water
Chicago, ILCurrent is Chicago’s water innovation hub.
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 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.
Bruitparif
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.
Network for Clean Air
Oxford, UKWe've been organising a programme of citizen science to measure air pollution since 2013
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
Bruitparif
Axe Pleyel 4 B104 32 boulevard Ornano 93200 Saint-Denis ParisNoise pollution nonprofit and creators of the Medusa noise sensors being deployed in Paris
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.
Mapping Makoko
NigeriaA combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement
ShotSpotter
Newark, CA, USAShotSpotter is the leader in gunshot detection solutions that helps law enforcement officials and security personnel identify, locate and deter gun violence. Our public safety solution, ShotSpotter Flex, is deployed in urban, high-crime areas to help identify, locate and deter gun violence by accurately detecting and locating gunshots and sending real-time alerts to law enforcement.
Hush City
Hardenbergstraße 40, 10623 Berlin, GermanyWith Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.
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 technology.
Soofa
24 Thorndike Street, Cambridge, MA 02141Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.
Beta Blocks
Boston, MAExploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.
HeatSeek
New York, NYHeat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.
Citizen Science (book)
Gower Street, London, UKIf 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
Check out the world leading Air Pollution API.
Calgary's noise-sensing network
Calgary, AB, CanadaCalgary’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 partnership.
Purple Air
110 West 13800 South, Draper, UT 84020, USAA low cost air quality sensor network providing real time measurement of air quality on a public map.
PakAirQuality
PakistanPakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.
Sensors.AFRICA
NairobiWe are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.
This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.
Audit of the Administration of the Internet of Things
MassachusettsIn 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 believed IoT devices were used for significant purposes.
Waze Connected Citizens
Waze, Yigal Alon Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelOver 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 Waze's Beacons and Crisis programs.
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