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 3 years ago
Using of Street lighting infrastructure for data transfer to facilitate Citizens on various fronts including pedestrian safety
Adaptive control system, on the Tool-less Sensor Platform (TSP) to be mounted on street lighting after upgrading to LED type. The vision for TSP is that municipalities can use the fact that streetlights are everywhere, and that they have electrical power to become the ‘real estate’ upon which smart, connected infrastructure can be built. In addition to providing on-off / dimming / reporting functions for the street lights, these control nodes are designed to be functional and work with both our own and third party sensors, for monitoring water mains, water meters, weather, sound, motion, etc. Also could be used as a safety beacon to signal pedestrian SOS and signal emergency services with location.
over 3 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 3 years ago
Equip city vehicles with GPS location aware accelerometers to measure road roughness real time and build apps to dispatch pothole fill crew
These text boxes are way too small to elaborate on ideas submitted
over 3 years ago
Cultural Kiosk in Shopping Mall or Visitor Centre
A kiosk outlining what’s on in greater Sudbury giving an overview of the event, when and where, and the ability to purchase tickets to the event online from the kiosk. Great for tourists looking for activities while visiting or for the convenience of our own citizens.
over 3 years ago
Weather stations at city facilities
In the interest of water conservation, I am curious about the weather for my subdivision. Did it rain enough today / this week that I do not need to water my lawn?
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