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

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.

Oh yeah, https://data.gov.uk/dataset/15be9dba-392c-4375-a931-425e35b956f7/nextbuses-api ?

Would you believe the UK government had a Microsoft Teams meeting a few weeks ago with the people wanting to use the more open API to see what they could do to make it better? I didn't make the meeting as it was during my work hours but I found it fascinating they had such an open consultation about it.

In Boston Massachusetts, a program called "smart streets" is using cameras and sensors to learn more on how people navigate and interact with the city streets. The focus is on roadway safety. Taking traffic patterns and pedestrian and cyclist movement through intersections..

There is a short paper relating to Smart Cities in the UK linked from this web site which may be of interest:

https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0656/

It cites projects taking place in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Hull, Manchester, Milton Keynes, London and Peterborough.

I recall the Open University running a MOOC on Smart Cities a while back with a few case studies.

Also has cropped up in some TV science documentaries, I recall Dr. Hannah Fry (Professor in the Mathematics of Cities, UCL) covering some of the Bristol Smart City project in one of her programmes 'The Joy of Data' toward the end.
https://youtu.be/bGq9OVce6Eg?t=2550    

skruglewicz said:

In Boston Massachusetts, a program called "smart streets" is using cameras and sensors to learn more on how people navigate and interact with the city streets

Is it comparable with this: Counting Traffic for the Community - Telraam?

Next year I get my free bus pass so I hope to start using buses and then I will find out how smart they are. I might even plan a few longer journeys just to see how far I can get for nothing. Currently I walk, drive or increasing get other people to take me to places. Or I stay at home.

A limiting factor may be that I get bus sick (and car sick if I'm not driving) but I Iive in hope I'll be able to manage.

Dubbie

shabaz said:

but that probably doesn't count as smart cities tech maybe

I think it's the very core of smart cities. This is where it's happening in bulk.

I believe quite a few cities have adopted and rolled out smart bins. A prevalent one here is the "bigbelly" brand of smart bins. There are quite a few other companies that do similar.

There're RFID chips in some bins in England:
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/.../

Three years ago I had the opportunity to present a recycling bin project that gave prizes for recycling through QR codes and that also allowed remote monitoring of the container for the Sensing the World Design Challenge. The project was awarded and I showed it to a person from the company in charge of recycling plastics and bottles in Spain, who found it very interesting. Today there are already machines from that company under the Reciclos brand that give prizes for recycling in QR format.

The project: community.element14.com/.../i-was-there-sensing-citizens-recycling

And the Reciclos machines https://www.reciclos.com/en/