EMPOWERING SMART & SUSTAINABLE CITIES

bee smart city is your premier global smart city knowledge center and operates the world's largest smart city network & community. We connect smart cities among each other, with the best solution providers and other smart city stakeholders to share knowledge, solutions and lessons learned.

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How the Urban Heat Island Effect is harming our cities

Heat everywhere, especially the cities are effected very hard, this phenomenon has a name called: "Urban Heat Island...

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What are smart parks?

Smart cities make us think of technology, apps, sensors, and screens. But there is so much more to an intelligent city...

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Ljubljana: A Smart, Green, and Sustainable City

Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital and largest city, is a vibrant centre of economic, cultural, and innovative activity....

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ULEZ Expansion London

London has one of the world’s most innovative and biggest low-emission zones: Currently, the Ultra Low Emission Zone...

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The Parks: The First Self-sufficient Smart City in Africa

When talking about smart cities, the African continent is often neglected. But there are many important developments...

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Smart City Expo World Congress 2023 and bee smart city renew collaboration

Muelheim/Ruhr, September 17th 2023. bee smart city is delighted to announce its continued collaboration with the Smart...

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Amsterdam Smart City: A World Leader in Smart City Development

This smart city portrait provides an overview on the smart city strategy and intelligent solutions implemented in the City of Amsterdam. The Dutch capital city, is one of the early adopters of smart city strategies in Europe, following their strategic smart...

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Ljubljana: A Smart, Green, and Sustainable City

Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital and largest city, is a vibrant centre of economic, cultural, and innovative activity. This year, Ljubljana is celebrating the 150^th anniversary of the birth of Jože Plečnik, an imaginative urban designer and architect whose work...

Become a member of the leading smart city network to exchange knowledge and lessons learned, to share solutions and best practices, as well as to grow your network and forge new collaborations.

Our global community with thousands of members from 170 countries is aimed at empowering cities to become smarter and more sustainable. We are the partner platform of United for Smart Sustainable Cities, the global smart city initiative of the United Nations, in pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals - especially SDG 11.

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bee smart city is an indispensable tool: it enables us to easily bring our smart city solutions online, to share them with other cities, to identify new solutions, and to be more transparent and citizen-centric.

Krzysztof Zuk

Mayor of the City of Lublin

With bee smart city, we have found a strong partner to realize the implementation of smart city projects globally in pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals and to connect all smart city stakeholders with proven solutions.

Kari Aina Eik

Leader U4SSC Implementation Programme, Secretary General of OiER

THE NEED FOR A HOLISTIC APPROACH

A smart city is all about implementing solutions that create added value and transform into collective good. Smart solutions in this sense include technological solutions as well as no-tech solutions.

From our perspective, the success of smart cities comes down to the intelligent implementation of solutions within a holistic strategy along six main smart city indicators.