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Smart City Solutions

Smart city solutions help cities to provide better services, to increase government efficiency and to tackle major challenges with the ultimate goal of creating a more livable, sustainable and prosperous city or community. In our solutions section, we cover new and proven solutions across all six smart city indicators - Smart Economy, Environment, Government, Living, Mobility, and People - to provide you with the right knowledge to help you identify and assess suitable solutions. To deep-dive into hundreds of solutions and to connect with thousands of experts and practitioners, join the global smart city network and community.

Joe Appleton6 min read

NRW’s Smart Tourism Sector: For Innovation and Cooperation

The Smart Tourism sector has been in the news quite a lot recently. With cities struggling to maintain tourist numbers due to ...

Jon Glasco8 min read

Mobile Broadband and the Future of Mission-Critical Communications

Cities must be prepared to respond to catastrophic storms, fires, mass shootings, pandemics, riots and other assorted crises. ...

Thomas Mueller6 min read

CityTech RUHR: How Cities Innovate through City-Startup Collaboration

The first edition of CityTech RUHR, Germany’s largest international smart city startup challenge, concluded with the successful ...

Thomas Mueller1 min read

Solutions for Cities: International Digital Ideas Competition started

The Covid-19 pandemic has posed similar challenges to cities and municipalities around the world. What have we learned from the ...

Lily Maxwell11 min read

Building Smarter: Smart Technologies for Design and Construction

Smart city strategy, now moving into its ‘fourth generation’, is today increasingly focused on collaboratively determining ...

Bart Gorynski4 min read

The Use of Crowdsourcing to accelerate Smart City Development

The evolution of smart cities has shifted from technology-centered approaches via government-led strategies to a human-centric ...