List of smart cities

[14][15][16][17][18] NEOM (Arabic: نيوم) is the name of a future planned city to be built in Tabuk Province in northwestern Saudi Arabia.

[20][21] Shanghai's development of the IoT and internet connection speeds have allowed for third-party companies to revolutionize the productivity of the city.

[23] During the first China International Import Expo, Shanghai focused on smart mobility and implemented sensors to accept smartphone traffic cards in all metro stations and buses to increase efficiency in the city.

Singapore, a city-state, has embarked on transforming towards a "Smart Nation", and endeavours to harness the power of networks, data and info-comm technologies to improve living, create economic opportunities and build closer communities.

Thereafter, building an innovation matchmaking platform to combine industry and government resources to develop smart solutions that satisfy public demands.

PMO accept proposals from industry and help to negotiate with relative department of Taipei city to initiate new proof of concept(PoC) project, with the help of a matchmaking platform which allows citizens access necessary innovative technologies.

Brisbane launched a project to install poles around the city that would keep track of important information such as air quality or environmental noise.

[25] The Amsterdam smart city initiative, which began in 2009, currently includes 170+ projects collaboratively developed by local residents, government and businesses.

These projects run on an interconnected platform through wireless devices to enhance the city's real-time decision making abilities.

The City of Amsterdam claims the purpose of the projects is to reduce traffic, save energy and improve public safety.

[33] For example, sensor technology has been implemented in the irrigation system in Parc del Centre de Poblenou, where real time data is transmitted to gardening crews about the level of water required for the plants.

The project also gives a glimpse of the future, when this kind of information could be collected in real time by sensors all over the city and collated with traffic flow data."

In another article with The World Economic Forum, Marius Sylvestersen, Program Director at Copenhagen Solutions Lab, explains that public-private collaborations must be built on transparency, the willingness to share data and must be driven by the same set of values.

[45] Trolleybuses in Gdynia have been operating since 1943 and are still being developed as low-emission transport - some of them have their own batteries, which allows them to reach areas with no traction.

These include the sustainable and computerized management of infrastructure, garbage collection and recycling, and public spaces and green areas, among others.

By the 21st century, SmartCity Malta, a planned technology park, became partially operational while the rest is under construction, as a Foreign Direct Investment.

In December 2015, Manchester's CityVerve project was chosen as the winner of a government-led technology competition and awarded £10m to develop an Internet of Things (IoT) smart cities demonstrator.

Currently the mechanism through which this is approached is the MK:Smart initiative, a collaboration of local government, businesses, academia and 3rd sector organisations.

The focus of the initiative is on making energy use, water use and transport more sustainable whilst promoting economic growth in the city.

The initial purpose of the programme was to make daily life for citizens safe and comfortable through the large-scale introduction of information and communication technologies.

[65] In June 2018, the global management consultancy McKinsey announced that Moscow is one of the world's top 50 cities for smart technologies.

The initiative aims to improve quality of life, make urban government more efficient and develop an information society.

There are more than 300 digital initiatives within the smart city project, with electronic services now widely provided online and through multifunctional centers.

[68][needs update] Moscow is actively developing eco-friendly transport using electric buses, and autonomous cars will soon be tested on the city's streets.

Other initiatives include Moscow's Electronic School programme, its blockchain-based Active Citizen project and smart traffic management.

[65] The city of Santander in Cantabria, northern Spain, has 20,000 sensors connecting buildings, infrastructure, transport, networks and utilities, offers a physical space for experimentation and validation of the IoT functions, such as interaction and management protocols, device technologies, and support services such as discovery, identity management and security.

The e-Stockholm platform is centred on the provision of e-services, including political announcements, parking space booking and snow clearance.

The city also received $10 million from Vulcan Inc.[79] One key reason why the utility was involved in the picking of locations for new electric vehicle charging stations was to gather data.

"[79] Because autonomous vehicles are currently seeing "an increased industrial research and legislative push globally", building routes and connections for them is another important part of the Columbus smart city initiative.

These provide services including free WiFi, phone calls, device charging stations, local wayfinding, and more, funded by advertising that plays on the kiosk's screens.