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Hello Lampost
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandThe playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.
Follow air quality in your city in real-time, and protect yourself from pollution thanks to our personalized advice and hourly forecasts.
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.
Smart Cities Expo
Barcelona, SpainSmart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.
Ride Report
Portland, ORFrom 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.
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Harlem Heat Project
Harlem, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAProduced with AdaptNY and ISeeChange, along with WE ACT for Environmental Justice. WNYC's resilience reporting is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation.
BeeMonitor
Snowdonia National Park, United KingdomOpen 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.
Sensors.AFRICA
NairobiWe are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.
FutureAir
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USAFutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality. SAM™ is designed by a world-renowned industrial designer, Ross Lovegrove. With proprietary sensing technology, SAM™ can identify the presence of toxins in the air, then initiate actions through an API with cloud computing; and, execute appropriate counter-measures to improve indoor air quality, comfort, and energy efficiency.
HeatSeek
New York CityHeat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.
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.
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.
PakAirQuality
PakistanPakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.
Boston's Smart Streets page
Boston, MACity page covers which tracking technologies are in place, why, and what they mean for privacy
Waag
Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam, NetherlandsWaag 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 inclusivity.
Beta Blocks
Boston, MAExploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.
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.
LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.
Open source monitoring for understanding energy
Check out the world leading Air Pollution API.
Mesa by Sidewalk Labs
Sidewalk Labs, 10th Avenue, New York, NY, USAAn easy-install kit to help commercial buildings cut energy costs.
A smart city framework created by the city of Vienna
Luftdaten
Stuttgart, GermanyMeasure air quality yourself
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.
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.
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.
Jakarta Smart City
JakartaIssue reporting, cameras, and sensors to improve government efficiency in Jakarta
This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.
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.
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
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.
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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.
Aclima announces a new partnership with Google Earth Outreach to map and better understand outdoor air quality.
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.
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.
Opti prepares today's infrastructure for tomorrow's storms. We provide Continuous Monitoring and Adaptive Control (CMAC) of stormwater systems at watershed scale.
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