Projects - Smart Cities and sensors

Ecobee Donate your Data program

Sharing anonymized data from your ecobee smart thermostat can help scientists advance the way to a sustainable future. JOIN NOW

IDC Smart Cities Awards

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

The 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

Harvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.

Smart Cities and sensors

Current Water

Chicago

Current is Chicago’s water innovation hub.

Clean water and sanitation

Smart Cities and sensors

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

Smart Cities and sensors

NYC City Scanner Pilot

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Low cost, mobile air quality and other environmental sensors installed on City vehicles. The City Scanner is a low-cost alternative to traditional methods of collecting environmental data

Smart Cities and sensors

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)

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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

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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

Oxford

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

air quality

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, we provide reliable

Smart Cities and sensors

Bruitparif

Axe Pleyel 4 B104 32 boulevard Ornano 93200 Saint-Denis Paris

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 européenne 2002/49/CE.

SmogOff

Cornwall

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.

air quality

Smart Cities and sensors

Mapping Makoko

Nigeria 🇳🇬

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

Did You Feel It?

United States of America 🇺🇸

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards

United States (federal government)

BeeMonitor

Snowdonia National Park, United Kingdom

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.

Sustainable cities and communities

Ride Report

Portland, OR

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.

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World Smart City Awards

Barcelona

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

ShotSpotter

Newark, CA

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

Boston

Google Acclima partnership

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

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Smart cities: Digital solutions for a more livable future

a McKinsey report

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

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

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Waze Connected Citizens

Waze, Yigal Alon Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

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 Waze's Beacons and Crisis programs.

Audit of the Administration of the Internet of Things

Massachusetts

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 believed IoT devices were used for significant purposes.

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Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy

Gower Street, London, UK

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

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StreetLogic Pro (previously WayCount)

Smart City Wien Framework Strategy

Austria (Österreich) 🇦🇹

A smart city framework created by the city of Vienna

SONYC Sounds of New York City

Brooklyn

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

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

Europe

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.

Beta Blocks

Boston

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

Boston's Smart Streets page

Boston

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

Waag

Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam, Netherlands

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 inclusivity.

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

Stuttgart, Germany

Measure air quality yourself

air quality

PakAirQuality

Pakistan 🇵🇰

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

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Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR)

Toronto

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.

Intel's Big Data for Precision Farming

University of California, Davis, Shields Avenue, CA

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.