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AirLabs
With 92% of the world’s population exposed to unsafe levels of air pollution (WHO), we’ve made it our mission to deliver clean air where it is needed most. We clean the polluted air in Cities, Buildings and Transport, using advanced airflow engineering and proprietary filtration technologies. Our revolutionary technology removes harmful gases and particulates to make it safe for healthy breathing.
Brightly, a Siemens company
Brightly is the global leader in intelligent asset management solutions – because we know that smarter assets drive more sustainable communities. Brightly pairs its complete suite of intuitive software - including CMMS, EAM, Strategic Asset Management, IoT Remote Monitoring, Sustainability and Community Engagement - with tailored consultancies and award-winning support services to light the way to a bright future where we can all thrive.
Bristol is Open (BiO)/Bristol City Council
Between 2013 and 2014, Bristol City Council was awarded £5.3m funding to develop a ‘research and development test bed’ which was a part of the ‘Gigabit Bristol Programme ‘funded by DCMS/BDUK’s Super- Connected Cities programme. Bristol is Open (BiO) was set up to deliver this test bed as a joint venture between Bristol City Council and the University of Bristol, which has resulted in a Smart City Research and Development network platform of multiple communications technologies installed around the city.
City of London Corporation
The City of London Corporation is the governing body of the Square Mile dedicated to a vibrant and thriving City, supporting a diverse and sustainable London within a globally-successful UK. Having signed the Digital Declaration, the City of London Corporation is committed to designing new digital public services, challenging the technology market to offer the flexible tools and services, protecting people’s privacy and security and delivering better value for money.
Commonplace
Great places are created by understanding and responding to the needs of the community. Commonplace is the UK and Ireland’s most advanced solution for community engagement and co-design. We have created an inclusive and flexible platform designed to gather geolocated localised sentiment data around places and spaces. Commonplace not only enables broader community conversations – it turns those conversations into a rich, data-led understanding.
Connected Places Catapult
Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and places.
EarthSense
EarthSense is an award-winning and leading expert in air quality services, providing specialist air pollution monitoring, modelling, and data provision for global businesses to help visualise and understand air quality issues for the betterment of human health.
Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)
In Greater Manchester, we are doing digital differently. We are committed to being a digital city-region that puts our residents at the heart of our plans and are working towards our ambitions to be recognised as a world leading digital city-region.
Hull City Council
Hull City Council is the unitary authority for the city of Kingston upon Hull. We provide more than 400 different services to our 260,000 residents and our population is continuing to rise. When Hull began its journey towards becoming a smart city, Hull City Council identified a number of key, distinct yet concurrent, phases that needed to be addressed: development of its own service specific use cases, a single view analysis and interaction of public sector services, the facilitation of the smart technology infrastructure and management of data security.
Leeds City Council/Smart Leeds
Leeds is the second largest metropolitan district in England, with a population of over 715,000 and covering an area of 552 square kilometres.Leeds City Council delivers over 500 different services to residents and is dedicated to bringing the benefits of a prosperous, vibrant and attractive city to the people of Leeds. SMART LEEDS is the Leeds City Council-led programme created to identify and deliver new technologies and innovative solutions to help make Leeds the best place to live, work and visit. Building the smart city is the means to an end rather than the end itself. That’s why we’re embedding smart city principles into everything we do.
Leicester City Council/Smart Leicester
Leicester City Council’s new Smart City strategy is aimed at improving people’s lives in the city through better use of digital technology. The strategy will combine Leicester’s digital, physical and social environment to deliver an inclusive, thriving and sustainable city for all.
Lucy Zodion
From intelligent street lighting control to power distribution for entire lighting networks, Lucy Zodion help make urban spaces more liveable and manageable. “Lucy Zodion is going through a period of exciting change", says MD, John Fox. "From the innovation of progressive technologies, to building a team of skilled professionals, we have a road map full of revolutionary milestones for the business that will transform us into a smart city specialist".
Mark Allison Consulting
Our mission is to drive sustainability throughout industry by leveraging a common voice and by engaging with business, suppliers, stakeholders and related sectors. We make environmental management and sustainability in your organisation easy and hassle-free.
Nordsense
Nordsense is on a mission to help the world reach its sustainability goals through efficient waste and resource management. Nordsense provides high-quality data to equip municipalities, facilities, waste collectors, resource managers, and businesses with the best possible tools and digital insights on their journey to turning waste into a resource.
Opendatasoft
Opendatasoft offers its clients market-leading data sharing solutions that allow organizations to easily publish, manage, combine, analyze, visualize, and share data in a variety of formats on a single platform.
Padam Mobility
Padam Mobility (now part of the Siemens Mobility family) designs and develops smart and dynamic Demand-Responsive Transport solutions using foolproof routing algorithms. Our mobile apps, simulation and management interfaces are tailored to the needs of our customers: Transit Operators, Transport and Local authorities, private companies, in the interest of users and territories.
Perform Green
Perform Green is a values-led consulting business, helping clients to deliver digitally inspired change for good. We help cities and communities to transform into Smarter Places, through the adoption of advanced digital, data and network connectivity. And we help organisations of all sizes to innovate, improve productivity and improve the quality of service to their clients, their customers and the communities they serve.
Signify
Signify is the world leader in lighting for professionals, consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. Our energy efficient lighting products, systems and services enable our customers to enjoy a superior quality of light, and make people’s lives safer and more comfortable, businesses more productive and cities more liveable.
SkedGo
SkedGo was born out of the need to create smarter ways for people to travel. Our Mobility as a Service (MaaS) technology allows public transit authorities, corporations and start-ups to create their own tailored MaaS applications without having to re-invent the wheel.
Smart Belfast
The Smart Belfast Urban Innovation Framework aims to stimulate collaborative innovation between industry, SMEs, academia, government and communities to tackle some of Belfast’s most complex urban challenges. Our ambition is to find ways to harness this innovation to better support Belfast’s transformation into a more productive and sustainable city that provides a rich quality of life for our citizens.
Sunderland Our Smart City
Our smart City Plan provides the insight and blueprint to effect change over the next ten years and beyond. It is built around three interdependent themes: our dynamic smart city, our healthy smart city and our vibrant smart city. Aligned to these three core elements, we will support access to education, employment and economic prosperity for Sunderland and our people.
Transport for the North (TfN)
We are England’s first Sub-national Transport Body. We were formed to transform the transport system across the North of England, providing the infrastructure needed to drive economic growth. As a partnership, we bring the North’s 20 local transport authorities and business leaders together with Network Rail, Highways England, and HS2 Ltd, and work with Central Government.
Videalert
Founded in 2004, Videalert is part of Marston Holdings, the UK’s largest transportation and enforcement services group. It is also one of the UK’s leading suppliers of intelligent traffic management and enforcement solutions. The company’s principal focus is the provision of digital traffic solutions that deliver the highest productivity at the lowest operational cost in five key areas: - Civil Traffic Enforcement - School Safety - Police ANPR - Traffic and Parking Management - Clean Air and Low Emission Zones
Vivacity Labs
At Vivacity, our vision is to make cities smarter, safer and more sustainable. Our artificial intelligence sensors and Smart Junctions signal control gather detailed and anonymous data 24/7 on transport modes, traffic flow and travel patterns, supporting strategic decisions to help optimise the transport network and improve urban infrastructure.
Vortex, part of Marston Holdings
Vortex is a young, dynamic and market-leading company at the forefront of smart city technologies. The company builds environmental sensors, networks and data solutions to support decarbonisation efforts globally. As experts in the latest IoT, AI, 5G and LiDAR technology, Vortex enables smart cities & smart infrastructures to become more efficient, safer and greener.
WasteHero
WasteHero provides a reimagined and up-to-date 360° SaaS suite helping cities to manage waste collection, reduce operative time and engage citizens effortlessly. With best-in-class enterprise cloud software for digitalising and optimising municipal waste management operations, WasteHero empowers local authorities to deliver excellence in waste management.
Yotta
Yotta is a global connected asset management software and services provider. We empower organisations to make better, more intelligent decisions by ensuring our Customers systems, assets and people are connected, and the data they produce is structured and captured to provide operational insight.
BetterPoints
BetterPoints is the UK’s leading behaviour change company, with cutting-edge habit-changing technology for employee wellbeing, carbon footprint reduction and environmental sustainability. We work with public bodies (CCGs, Local Authorities) and corporate organisations to increase physical activity, promote active and sustainable travel and improve wellbeing.
Broadway Malyan
Broadway Malyan is a global architecture, urbanism and design practice dedicated to creating cities, buildings and places that will provide a lasting legacy. Through a shared design ethos, we work together to create places with a strong sense of identity where people and communities want to live, learn, shop, work and relax. Our collaborative approach to integrated sustainable design has enabled us to deliver award-winning projects at all scales across the world. Every project, from a strategic city plan to the craftmanship of a balustrade, reflects our passion for quality design and place-making.
Centre for Cities
Centre for Cities is the leading think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns. Working closely with urban leaders, Whitehall, business and academia, they produce rigorous, data-driven research and policy ideas to help cities, large towns and Government address the challenges and opportunities they face – from boosting productivity and wages to preparing for the changing world of work.
City REDI (City Region Economic Development Institute)
Based at the University of Birmingham, City REDI is a brand new research institute focused on developing an academic understanding of major city regions across the globe to develop practical policy which better informs and influences regional and national economic growth policies. City REDI delivers policy, strategy and research which supports economic growth and prosperity by undertaking work that explores the complex and inter-related way in which people and systems work across urban areas.
Dundee City Council
The vision for Dundee City Council is to become a council which has enhanced its services through digital and has effectively promoted the use of digital so that its citizens think digital first when requesting services because it is quicker and more convenient to do so. This vision covers more than just digital access to services, it covers the processes behind the services, the way our citizen’s find and access them, how we communicate, how we continue to improve but also aims to bring the city together by looking at a multiple digital themes. By creating a digital strategy, the council will be supporting other ‘Changing for the Future’ projects, providing the citizens of Dundee with a full choice of service options which are convenient and fit into their lives as seamlessly as possible regardless of age, location, time constraints or backgrounds.
Esri
As a leading location intelligence platform provider (Forrester Wave 2020), Esri empowers leaders with innovative tools to help create sustainable prosperity. Esri's customers drive digital transformation by embracing the power of location.
Exeter City Futures
Exeter City Futures - working collaboratively with the City to build a healthier and more sustainable Exeter. Exeter City Futures is an independent Community Interest Company that is working to help Exeter solve its urbanisation challenges in a way that reduces social inequality and contributes to economic growth. Our vision is to help Exeter live better, by creating a vibrant, sustainable, and inclusive place for future generations by analysing and addressing the biggest challenges facing our city.
Imactivate
We are imactivate. We write software and work with data to tell stories in a digital world. Closely connected to the vibrant creative scene in Leeds, the North of England, and beyond, we're highly-experienced scientists comfortable with the technical details that stop many great ideas becoming a reality.
Lancaster University/ImaginationLancaster
ImaginationLancaster is an open and exploratory globally recognised design-led research lab at Lancaster University, one of the top 10 universities in the UK. We conduct interdisciplinary design and architecture research into current and future challenges facing cities, communities, factories, workplaces and homes.
LSE Cities
LSE Cities is an award winning international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad. It studies how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focusing on how the physical form and design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment.
Microsoft
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation can and will contribute to a brighter world in big and small ways.
ODI Leeds
ODI Leeds is a pioneer node of the Open Data Institute. It was created to explore and deliver the potential of open innovation with data at city scale. We work to improve lives, help people and create value.
Route Konnect
We use video analytics to understand vehicle and people movement. Our unique solution gathers continuous telemetry across multiple cameras. Other providers treat cameras in isolation, creating disjointed, unrelated segments of movement. Route Konnect’s real-time, multi-camera turning count analytics can help achieve smart junctions, which can tackle fuel usage inefficiencies that contribute 2.2% of all global CO2 emissions.
Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
The Royal Town Planning Institute is the UK's leading planning body for spatial, sustainable and inclusive planning and is the largest planning institute in Europe with over 25,000 members. The Institute is embarking on a number of projects to explore how city-regions can plan more effectively by using data and technology.
See.Sense
See.Sense creates cycling tech products that make cycling safer, and that engage our community to share powerful data insights to improve conditions for cycling. We produce consumer products including intelligent and connected bike lights and theft tracking devices and we also provide a fleet options for bike manufacturers and operators. Our products generate a comprehensive cycling data set reflective of the cyclists’ experience.
Slingshot Simulations
Slingshot Simulations, a digital twin company, was founded in 2019 with a mission to deliver insights from cutting-edge data science. Our technology allows us to positively impact the biggest challenges faced today: climate change; sustainability; resource management, public health, and more.
Sparta Digital
Based in the heart of Manchester, Sparta Digital are a solutions provider for organisations looking to increase user engagement in an IoT connected world. We specialise in augmented reality, smart city solutions, data analysis and more.
StormHarvester
StormHarvester is a leading smart drainage company operating in both the wastewater and stormwater sectors. Our core competency is bringing together machine learning with hyperlocal rainfall forecasting.
The Data City
The Data City is a tech start up that creates the best lists of classified companies and company details in the UK. Our industrial classification system for the new economy allows policy makers, economists, investors and analysts to understand the emerging economy and markets in real time. We are working to replace SIC codes as the foundation of industrial data in the UK.
The Open University
We are the leading university for flexible, innovative teaching and world-leading research in the United Kingdom and in 157 countries worldwide.
Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC)
The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) is a research centre that is jointly funded by the ESRC and the University of Glasgow. We aim to promote the use of big data and innovative methods to improve social, economic and environmental well-being in cities. We deliver analyses which have demonstrable impacts on public policy, society and industry.
Urban Foresight
With offices in Newcastle upon Tyne and Dundee, Urban Foresight was established as the world’s first dedicated smart cities consultancy. By combining, Founder & CEO, Dr David Beeton's twin passions of innovation and sustainable development, their diverse team of experts work with ambitious organisations around the world on projects that improve lives, protect the environment and boost local economies.
Vianova
Vianova is building the digital layer between cities and operators to foster collaboration, and facilitate modal shift toward more sustainable and accessible modes of transport. Vianova helps cities digest as well as make good use of complex mobility data.
VU.CITY
VU.CITY is a game-changing, digital twin software which addresses the fundamental questions: if we build here; what will it look like; who will it affect; and how will it affect them? Combining the power of data with the largest, most accurate 3D digital city models, VU.CITY helps us to understand the implications of change in the built environment. VU.CITY covers the whole of London and 25 major UK and international cities.
West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA)
The West Yorkshire Combined Authority is responsible for the £1 billion west Yorkshire Plus Transport Fund, and works closely with business in the region through the Leeds City Region LEP to ensure that business and the regional economy is at the heart of the decisions taken.
Westminster City Council
Examples of Westminster’s technologically and data driven policies and interventions include their involvement in the monitoring project ‘Breathe London’, trialling of innovative technologies ranging from green infrastructure to retrofitting the council’s waste vehicle fleet, use of data driven evaluation of parking projects and work on eliminating unnecessary vehicle idling.
Department for Transport (DfT)
We work with our agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps UK businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest in transport infrastructure to keep the UK on the move. Department for Transport is currently developing its approach to how the department and the wider transport sector can be supported to make better use of data by addressing the range of barriers.
Environmental Services Association (ESA)
ESA is the trade association representing the UK's waste management and secondary resources industry. ESA’s Members provide essential waste and secondary resources management services to the public and private sectors. ESA works with all levels of government and regulators to deliver more sustainable waste management for the UK.
Highways England
Highways England operate, maintain and improve England’s motorways and major A roads. We focus on what every customer wants - less congested roads to ensure swift, safe comfortable travel. This means increasing road capacity while modernising the motorway network and major A roads.
IoT Analytics
IoT Analytics is a leading provider of market insights and strategic business intelligence for the Internet of Things (IoT), and Industry 4.0. We are trusted by 600+ leading companies around the world including globally leading software and industrial players. Our key workstreams across the tech stack include IoT applications, IoT Platforms & Software, IoT Connectivity & Hardware with a special focus on Industrial IoT and Smart City.
IPgallery
As the worldwide Smart City landscape is disrupted by COVID-19 pandemic, we help Cities and States act proactively with necessary real-time management tools to overcome the virus spreading, mitigate casualties, and help preserve communities health and urban life normality with minimal socio-economic impact. COVID-19 Data-driven Smart City Command & Control Center provides stakeholders, mayors, city managers and operators with proactive tools, allowing to identify and predict trends, activate workflows automatically and execute emergency plans.
Mott MacDonald
We’re a global engineering, management and development consultancy. Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
Norman Rourke Pryme
We offer a multi-disciplinary service including traffic and transport design and project management, cost consultancy and building consultancy services across the building, highways and infrastructure sectors. We have an in-depth knowledge of the property market and construction industry, which allows us to provide considered advice on development strategies, investment potential, risk management and the facilities required for productive workplaces.
Oxford City Council
Our ambition is to make Oxford a world-class city for all our citizens. Our priorities are: A Vibrant and Sustainable Economy; Meeting Housing Needs; Strong and Active Communities; A Clean and Green Oxford; An Efficient and Effective Council.
Rokubun
Rokubun develops accurate and affordable navigation solutions targeting mass-market applications. Rokubun's maiden solution JASON is a Precise Positioning-as-a-Service cloud platform to provide our customers with accurate navigation information at an affordable price. JASON is compatible with main GNSS measurements formats and addons (event tagging) and provides an API to be fully integrated into users pipeline to offer an easy-to-use cost-effective precision navigation solution.
Savills
Savills is a global real estate services provider with a network of more than 35,000 people in over 600 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. As technology advances, it creates endless opportunities for the real estate industry, allowing us to find new ways to use data and enable greater efficiencies in the way we work. Savills is at the forefront of exploring and developing these capabilities, bringing together people and technology to push boundaries and take real estate to a new level.
SEStran
SEStran is a Regional Transport Partnership comprised of eight local councils in South East Scotland: Borders, East Lothian, West Lothian, Midlothian, Edinburgh, Fife, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire. SEStran aims to develop a transportation system for SE Scotland that will enable business to function effectively, and provide everyone living in the region with improved access to health care, education, public services and employment opportunities.
TagMaster UK
TagMaster UK is a British company and a wholly owned subsidiary of TagMaster AB. As a leading manufacturer and supplier of traffic monitoring equipment, a wide range of instrumentation and software systems are available ranging from rapidly deploy-able radars through to full blown real-time ITS solutions. Products and systems are designed in-house for flexibility from the ground up, allowing a simple process of integration with 3rd party applications
WMREDI (The West Midlands Regional Economic Development Institute)
The West Midlands Regional Economic Development Institute (WMREDI) supports inclusive economic growth in our city-region and regions across the UK.
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