Smart Cities Challenge
How would you use $10 million to improve technology in Greater Sudbury?
The City of Greater Sudbury is taking part in the Smart Cities Challenge, issued by the Government of Canada. The challenge encourages cities to adopt approaches to improving the lives of residents through innovation, data and connected technology.
The Smart Cities Challenge is calling on communities of our size to submit their big ideas, for a chance to win up to $10 million. The Challenge will be awarded to cities that can demonstrate innovative ways to use data and connected technology to address local issues.
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What do you feel our Smart Cities Challenge submission should include? Do you have a big idea? How can we use data and connected technology to make our community better? Share your ideas here!
View All Ideasover 2 years ago
Predictive Road Maitenance
Use existing fibre infrastructure installed at traffic light locations around the city to deploy various sensor technologies to monitor our roads, and use the data collected to develop tools that will allow staff to build predictive maintenance schedules. potential sensors: seismic monitoring # trips per day temperature and corresponding weather pattern (looking for freeze thaw cycles) visual inspections by drones using li-dar and 3D mapping etc. Benefits: Immediately begin to develop expertise in predictive road maintenance. Expertise companies can then sell to other rural, northern, municipalities. Has the possibility of employing several made in Canada solutions - attracting different people and technologies to our city Demonstrates real efforts, and energy, being put towards solving the age-old questions of road maintenance/construction, and what needs to be done to keep infrastructure costs low, and sustainable. Leverages already installed infrastructure, keeping costs low, and allowing for deployment over a much larger area = more data. Long-term, the city has an invaluable bank of data to develop predictive tools from - making the identification, and proper evaluation of ‘what matters’ for collected metrics crucial
over 2 years ago
Dynamic Carbon footprint display on the City website and other City owned electronic hoardings
To dynamically link the City’s Energy conservation efforts, energy consumption and thus the City’s ecological carbon foot print on the Dash board. The Smart Dash Board is deemed as the product of the Smart City efforts by various Silos of the City simply put together for multiple outputs. With the rising popularity of green movement this would be a seen as a welcome and responsible move by the City
over 2 years ago
Municpal Mobile App
A mobile app that will allow residents to upload photos, use mapping to mark potholes, request blueboxes, ask a question etc.. and have it tie into a database so you can see when your issue/request has been updated or resolved. It warn about construction zones, map snowplows and have a news ticker about important municipal events. Like having 311 with you wherever you are.
over 2 years ago
Commuter raiil
The city is covered by rail lines that stretch to all communities and most major places of employment. Simply having a concrete slab at each station with a sign. This could not only improve transit and get more people out of their single occupancy vehicles. This would also help change our transit such that buses are not running long distances to the smaller communities.
over 2 years ago
SmartWorks: Using data for smarter city operations
Develop a software foundation for predictive analytics and combining data across departments which the city could build on and export expertise. Continually evaluated for accuracy, the system would automatically identify efficiencies across city project, serve as a foundation to connect future smart infrastructure
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