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Aeternum Innovations
Aeternum helps you make better decisions about your environment – how much or how little pollution exists, the health of your climate and more. Based in Liverpool, England we offer energy efficient monitoring solutions that convert ambient energy such as solar, RF and wind to remotely power and collect sensor data. Our goal is to help you make better, more informed decisions about your environment so that you can mitigate or take other measures to keep your community thriving.
Air Aware Labs
Clean air is an integral part of a thriving society. Air Aware Labs is a tech start-up on a mission to empower smarter choices that protect you from air pollution. Whether you’re a commuter navigating the city or an athlete pushing your limits, our goal is simple: reduce exposure, build healthier habits, and make clean air accessible to all. Our AirTrack app empowers individuals with personalised air quality data, driving meaningful behaviour change and fostering healthier lifestyles.
Airly
Airly's mission is to empower the world to reduce air pollution - to save lives. This means transforming how governments, businesses and communities understand and respond to air pollution. Today, Airly are focussed on building more granular, actionable and cost-effective information on air quality - through an end-to-end air quality monitoring solution to supplement existing regulatory monitors. Visit the MyAirly map (https://map.airly.org/) or download the Airly mobile app (https://airpollutionalert.com/) to check the current air quality in your area.
AMP Robotics
AMP is applying AI-powered sortation at scale to modernise the world's recycling infrastructure and maximise the value in waste. AMP gives waste and recycling leaders the power to harness AI to reduce labour costs, increase resource recovery, and deliver more reliable operations. With hundreds of deployments across Europe, Asia and North America, AMP’s technology offers a transformational solution to waste sortation and changes the fundamental economics of recycling.
Blyncsy
Blyncsy, a Bentley Systems company, is an industry leader in providing intelligent roadway insights, automated asset management and a near real-time status of road infrastructure to local governments and state departments of transportation. They utilize crowd-sourced dash camera footage from over 1.75 million vehicles already on the roads, and Google Streetview Imagery with machine learning and AI to make roadways smarter, safer, more equitable and more efficient. The way we move and behave can impact every aspect of our lives. Blyncsy supports organizations to make better decisions when it comes to traffic, safety, and the health of our communities.
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.
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.
Hello Lamp Post
Hello Lamp Post creates intelligent virtual agents for the real world. Their AI-driven chats put a digital assistant in any public space or location, making community engagement quicker, easier and cheaper. By making places interactive, anyone can share ideas, access public services and co-create solutions to global challenges from their mobile phones.
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".
Newcastle Helix
Newcastle Helix exists to help us all live better lives. Easier, healthier, smarter and longer. Our focus is on data science, urban science and life science. Together, we’re transforming the quality of life for families, communities and cities around the world.
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.
Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings
Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings, is a multidisciplinary infrastructure and place consultancy shaping sustainable spaces across the UK. They work with local authorities and private developers to deliver civil infrastructure, support sustainable communities, and create vibrant, well-designed places. Project Centre's expertise spans highways and infrastructure design, kerbside and parking management, sustainable transport, and award-winning public realm projects including flood and water management, lighting and community engagement.
Scalgo
By harnessing the power of global geographical digitisation and using the latest advances in big data processing technology, Scalgo build innovative digital tools that enable users to create better, more liveable and sustainable environments where there is space for water. A revolution in sensor and mapping technology has enabled governments to create and maintain nationwide 3-dimensional maps in high resolution. The entire surface of the Earth is now being mapped in detail. Scalgo are collecting this data and building a platform to unlock its potential.
Scotscape
Cities occupy only 3% of our landmass but over 56% (and rising) of our population live here. Scotscape are an innovation led company that combine nature and technology to encourage biodiversity back into the built environment. Their product eco-system includes patented Living Walls and Living Pillars systems, Micro-Forests, LivingArt, and industry leading landscape maintenance – positioning Scotscape at the forefront of urban greening, to breathe life into cities around the world.
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.
Tvilight Smart City Lighting
TVILIGHT is a European market leader in smart city lighting control solutions, specialising in sensors, connected lighting controls, and management software. Their open platform, powered by Open API, enables Smart City and IoT integration. Over 1000 cities across 35+ countries benefit from TVILIGHT solutions, including major municipalities across the Netherlands and Germany, and growing deployments in Luxembourg, Hungary, Greece, the UK, Morocco, the Middle East, India, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.
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.
Daupler
Powered by the most extensive utility incident AI dataset in the world, Daupler’s Response Management System (RMS) quickly and accurately identifies the severity of electric, water, wastewater, and public works infrastructure issues. With Daupler RMS, utilities have an end-to-end solution to identify, triage, and manage dispatch, streamlining and simplifying the response process while eliminating manual steps. Daupler clients have reported an average reduction of 50% in response times, with up to an 80% reduction in response costs.
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.
KnowNow Information
KnowNow help places become smart communities. Using a method based on the BSI and ISO Smart community standards (ISO37106), KnowNow provides strategic planning & roadmap creation; requirements definition and IT masterplans; help with supplier evaluation and quality assurance of ongoing smart projects.
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.
Living Streets
We want a nation where walking is the natural choice for everyday local journeys. For 90 years Living Streets has been a beacon for walking. In the early days our campaigning led to the UK’s first zebra crossing and the introduction of speed limits. Today, we face new challenges on their mission to achieve a better walking environment and inspire people to walk more. This includes using digital technology to deliver one of the biggest behaviour change programmes in the UK.
Marked by Orchy.co
Led by Garance Locatelli and Mark Smith, and spun out from the University of Strathclyde, Orchy is an award-winning Scottish start-up dedicated to tackling the climate crisis. This commitment is pursued through the development and global scaling of innovative solutions, such as their flagship product, the MARKED: Wayfinding System. Simple and safe bike navigation for a world with no barriers to cycling!
Nemi Mobility Solutions
Nemi is a tool which enables the operation of demand-responsive transport and makes mobility in low-density areas feasible. By deploying Nemi’s SaaS solutions, local authorities transform and develop their communities, transport operators optimise the use of their fleet whilst making more efficient and frequent trips and passengers benefit from a reliable, transparent and flexible public transport service.
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.
SmartSurvey
SmartSurvey is a UK-based provider of digital survey solutions. They are transforming how organisations capture and act on feedback with AI-powered insights that cut analysis time in half. From FTSE 100 companies to local councils, healthcare trusts and global brands – SmartSurvey powers feedback programmes that drive real change. The platform unifies all feedback streams – Customer Experience (CX), Employee Experience (EX), Patient Experience, and Citizen Engagement – into one intelligent system, ensuring no more scattered tools or missed insights.
SustainIQ
SustainIQ is the all-in-one, easy to use ESG & sustainability data reporting software. Our reporting dashboard provides users with one integrated solution to report on all aspects of their ESG performance.
Living Streets Scotland
Living Streets Scotland are part of the UK charity for everyday walking and want to create a walking nation, free from congested roads and pollution, reducing the risk of preventable illness and social isolation, and making walking the natural choice. Digital technology is helping us deliver one of the biggest ‘smarter travel’ behaviour programmes in Scotland.
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.
SYSTRA
SYSTRA is one of the world’s leading engineering and consulting groups, specialising in infrastructure and mobility solutions. In the UK & Ireland, SYSTRA has been creating, improving and modernising infrastructure for more than 50 years across the transport, energy, environmental and built-environment sectors. Their work creates inspirational places and systems that connect people seamlessly, enhance well-being, stimulate economies, and provide a sustainable legacy for future generations.
Water Matters
Water Matters is a dedicated digital newsletter and podcast focused on the vital issue of sustainable water management: "We believe that water is one of the most important resources, and our mission is to inspire a global community to take action in protecting it. Through compelling stories, insightful updates, and real-world examples of positive change, we aim to elevate the conversation around water and empower people to make a difference".
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