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How deep is the market adoption of smart cities technology where you live?

rscasny

We hear a lot of roll out of new products and technologies for smart city solutions. But what about the actual deployment and implementation of these smart city technologies? How deep is the adoption of these solutions in the cities and countries where you live? Examples would be welcome.

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  • I know that in my city (Castelo Branco, Portugal), the bus stops finally have working the digital displays that shows the time for the next bus to arrive.

    They also have air quality sensors spread around the city  - although the API or the data is not publicly available (still don't know why) .

    They also have public lighting with some kind of sensors and on top of the newer light posts they also have some sensors that send readings of the energy consumption.

    Don't know if free WiFi also counts, but on the more crowded areas, some parks and public pools, WiFi is free.

    The adoption has been slow - for the more standard sensors - air quality monitor, temperature, etc.. they have adopted them for some time now.

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  • I know that in my city (Castelo Branco, Portugal), the bus stops finally have working the digital displays that shows the time for the next bus to arrive.

    They also have air quality sensors spread around the city  - although the API or the data is not publicly available (still don't know why) .

    They also have public lighting with some kind of sensors and on top of the newer light posts they also have some sensors that send readings of the energy consumption.

    Don't know if free WiFi also counts, but on the more crowded areas, some parks and public pools, WiFi is free.

    The adoption has been slow - for the more standard sensors - air quality monitor, temperature, etc.. they have adopted them for some time now.

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  • in reply to feiticeir0

    The traffic lights also have proximity sensors - but that started before the generalization of IoT - for the light to change when a car approaches and now they have timers - to let the drivers know the time remaining for green light - but in some, that doesn't work very well - I see 24s remaining and the light turns green Slight smile

    And the same everywhere - speed sensors .