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Bloomberg Philanthropies Government Innovation program
Bloomberg Philanthropies, 25 East 78th Street, New York, NY 10075, USAAPPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES
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.
Intel's Big Data for Precision Farming
University of California, Davis, Shields Avenue, CA, USAIntel 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.
World Smart City Awards
Barcelona SpainThe World Smart City Awards seek to recognize pioneering projects, ideas and strategies that promote sustainable urban development around the globe.
Opti prepares today's infrastructure for tomorrow's storms. We provide Continuous Monitoring and Adaptive Control (CMAC) of stormwater systems at watershed scale.
Sea Level Rise Toolbox
MiamiInteractive mapping tool for visualizing the effects of rising see levels
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.
Follow air quality in your city in real-time, and protect yourself from pollution thanks to our personalized advice and hourly forecasts.
SONYC Sounds of New York City
Brooklyn, NYSONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.
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.
Smart Cities Expo
Barcelona SpainSmart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.
LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.
Boston's Smart Streets page
Boston, MACity page covers which tracking technologies are in place, why, and what they mean for privacy
Placemeter
425 Broadway, New York, NY, USAPlacemeter 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.
Mesa by Sidewalk Labs
Sidewalk Labs, 10th Avenue, New York, NY, USAAn easy-install kit to help commercial buildings cut energy costs.
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Wir messen, wo Autos Radfahrer eng überholen.
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.
HeatSeek
New York, NYHeat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.
Open source monitoring for understanding energy
Sensors.AFRICA
NairobiWe are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.
Aclima announces a new partnership with Google Earth Outreach to map and better understand outdoor air quality.
Jakarta Smart City
JakartaIssue reporting, cameras, and sensors to improve government efficiency in Jakarta
Beijing Air Tracks
BeijingThe causes and effects of air pollution comprise a complicated chemical recipe that is all too easily reduced to superficial observation (the color of the sky) or an abstract statistical reading from static instruments. In reality, the total experience of a city’s air quality is a combination of highly localized as well as more regional effects that shift in intensity as one moves through an urban landscape.
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.
Luftdaten
Stuttgart, GermanyMeasure air quality yourself
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