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

In Leeds, United Kingdom, the bus stops have finally been updated with digital displays that should show the next bus that's coming, in combination with a live map to your phone that shows where the bus currently is.

It's not always correct, there's some purposeful fudging of the data by the bus company as there are 'ghost' buses which are 'running based on the timetable' but aren't actually there, but others are connected via GPS, it states whether it is or not.

The UK has a slow adoption of APIs for this type of thing. It's basically in London and nowhere else in the UK which is depressing where everything is smarter and better connected. The rest of the country struggles.

I'd say there's no real other 'smart city' technology aside from potentially transport here.

In an adjacent county back in 2014 I was working on a similar project. It used the Traveline Nextbuses transport API. We had digital signage displays on campus and later at the main city bus station showing the bus departure information. The real time tracking was slow in coming as the old bus fleet weren't equipped with that technology. I recall that there were issues in getting the centralised database updated to reflect the local timetabling changes. There were also issues with certain figure of 8 type bus routes that the centralised database didn't cope with very well so required additional client side tweaking to avoid confusion.

There were a number of other issues such as lack of access to DSL at the bus station and it being located in a 3G mobile data blackspot... along with the usual many layers of bureaucracy.

I've noticed similar things too.. we are so used to real-time stuff, but the rest of the world deals in IT systems that provide information daily, or say half daily, and even hourly is extreme : ) They are just not designed to provide data or perform well at more frequent rates, so if you end up needed info from a couple of sources, you could well be looking at once-per-day updates which can blow some use-cases out of the water : ( 

Which highlights another common issue. When an unexpected incident occurs, such as a main road closure due to a road traffic accident, then you ideally want the 'smart' technology to provide new information more-or-less immediately so as to be able to inform people as to the alternative arrangements now in place. In a lot of cases they can end up being a rather expensive replacement for a printed timetable.

Which highlights another common issue. When an unexpected incident occurs, such as a main road closure due to a road traffic accident, then you ideally want the 'smart' technology to provide new information more-or-less immediately so as to be able to inform people as to the alternative arrangements now in place. In a lot of cases they can end up being a rather expensive replacement for a printed timetable.