Innovations include smart trash cans, traffic lights, and snow plows
In Pittsburgh, public trash cans aren’t just collecting litter—they’re also gathering data. This summer, the city completed installation of 1,200 smart garbage cans that use sensors to alert sanitation workers when they’re almost full. The city expects them to cut hours spent on litter collection by 66%, while reducing the carbon emissions from garbage trucks and freeing up workers to do other work, such as patching roads. The trash cans are part of a larger effort to transform the former Rust Belt manufacturing center into a tech and entrepreneurship hub that acts as “a model of what the new economy and environmental standards should look like,” says Santiago Garces, director of Pittsburgh’s Department of Innovation and Performance.
Performance Seattle provides data visualisations to help citizens track progress across seven priority areas.
The City of Seattle has launched a new centralised dashboard where residents can track progress across seven key areas.
Performance Seattle, which provides visualisations of city data, was created to help the city demonstrate accountability to residents, reduce data silos within city government and make data more accurate and real-time through automation.
Weiterlesen: US: Washington: Seattle launches dashboard to track city progress
Peculiar, which is a bedroom community in the Kansas City metro area, has partnered with Comcast for high-speed broadband communications to support a number of city and community operations.
Smart cities are not just big cities. Smaller municipalities are also venturing into fiber communications infrastructure that support smart city work like improved operations, faster Internet speeds and other projects.
Weiterlesen: US: Missouri: Cass County: Upgrades Are Making Peculiar, Mo., into a Smart Small City
Artificial intelligence is expected to help in cybersecurity and citizen-facing digital services, according to a report.
For most state governments, the use of artificial intelligence is more of an aspiration than a reality, according to a survey from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.
In August 2019, the Center for Digital Government and NASCIO, with support from IBM, surveyed CIOs’ motivations, plans and deterrents for AI adoption. The survey, “Delivering on Digital Government: Achieving the Promise of Artificial Intelligence,” yielded responses from 45 states. The primary respondents were CIOs and their deputies, CTOs and selected agency heads.
Weiterlesen: US: AI Use Poised to Grow in State Government, Survey Finds
Dive Brief:
- Following a preview scorecard released in September, Leading Cities and Bright Cities have unveiled their full smart city rating of 500 U.S. cities on Tuesday at Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
- No cities scored an A+ or an A, but four small cities scored an A-: Centennial, CO; Newton, MA; Pleasanton, CA; and San Ramon, CA. "These cities demonstrate that bigger is not always better," the organizations wrote in a press release.
- The ratings use cities' open data to evaluate performance against 32 indicators across 10 dimensions: governance, economy, education, entrepreneurship, environment, health, mobility, security, technology and urbanization.