Honoring the most transformative Smart projects each year
Smart 50 Awards - in partnership with Smart Cities Connect and Smart Cities Connect Foundation - annually recognize global smart cities projects, honoring the most innovative and influential work. This year, we will designate three winners from the overall awardee pool.
Who Should Apply:
Strong applicants will represent innovative projects with current or future municipal-scale impact and application. Applications should clarify their connection with a municipal or municipal-similar partner, such as a county, region, campus, military base, or facility complex.
2023 Smart 50 Award Recipients:
- Boost Fredericton Civic Innovation Lab, Fredericton, Canada
- The Most Visible Planning Proposal In The History of City Planning, New York, NY
- ARTour AR Public Art Walk, Cupertino, CA
- City-Wide Fiber Project Benefitting Home, Business, Residents, Springboro, OH
- Morrisville Connect, Morrisville, NC
- The Water Quality Sensor (System of Waterkeeper) Assists Industries Manage Their Influent Water, Taichung, Taiwan
- The Governance of Air Quality In Taoyuan Industrial Parks By IoT Air Quality Platform, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
- New York's Digital Transit Infrastructure: Data-Driven Congestion, Emissions, and Safety, New York City, NY
- Autonomous Drone Delivery, Frisco, TX
- Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Alerts Pilot, Stafford, VA
- Growing Together, Kitchener, Canada
- cosma21: Urban Data Platform, Frankfurt, Germany
- Document The Floods, Broward County, FL
- DataFleet, Oberhausen, Germany
- ParkMobile Parking Data-As-A-Service Pillot, Chattanooga, TN
- Arlington RAPID, Arlington, TX
- Coral Gables Smart City Digital Twin Horizontal Integration Platform, Coral Gables, FL
- Red Cloud Neighborhood Smart Cities Pilot, Dallas, TX
- Downtown Vegas Alliance Down To Play Campaign, Las Vegas, NV
- CiviForm: A Simpler Way To Access and Administer Government Benefits, Seattle and Bloomington, WA
- Connected Parks Initiative, Morrisville, NC
- Taoyuan City Water Resources 3D Geographic Information Management System, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Smart District Heating, Pirmasens, Germany
- WeRIDE Microtransit, Avondale, AZ
- Public Transit Planning: Switching From Reaction To Prediction With Big Data and AI, Bergen, Norway
- Smart Community Air Quality Monitoring Collaborative, Chattanooga, TN
- Deploying AI Pilot For Improved Passenger Safety, Philadelphia, PA
- A Living Laboratory: The Largest Smart Intersection Network In The US, Chattanooga, TN
- Connecting Communities: RideMICRO On-Demand, Wilmington, NC
- Chicago Connected Vehicle Corridor, Chicago, IL
- King County Metro Improves Passenger Transit With Connectpoint's Smart City, Seattle, WA
- Defining The Blueprint For Smart Cities In The US: Peachtree Corners, "City Street of The Future", Peachtree Corners, GA
- Upgrading Digital Payments Powers Digital Transformation, Grand Rapids, MI
- De-Risking Municipal Infrastructure Development, Park Avenue, Mount Pearl, Newfoundland, and Labrador, Canada
- Chicago Health Atlas, Chicago, IL
- Trust for Public Land: South Oak Cliff Renaissance Park, Dallas, TX
- Smart Streetlight Operations Software, Baltimore, MD
- Saskatoon Transit Evaluates and Implements Preteckt AI Predictive Bus Maintenance Technology, Saskatoon, Canada
- Disaster Response Visualization Tool, Moroyama, Japan
- Laval Transit Agency To Test Smart Bus Stops, Laval, Canada
- Innovative Asset Management Practices Using CityROVER and AI, Windsor, Canada
- Open Finance, Houston, TX
- Team Pharr.NET: Fast, Affordable FTTP Internet Services, Pharr, TX
- Community Engagement and Communication Project (Real-Time Interpretation), Modesto, CA
- CITYPARKS: Big Data + AI for Parks Visitation and Movement Patterns, Montgomery County and Prince George's County, MD
- myDurham 311 Smart Home Device Voice Service, Durham, Canada
- eBikes For EVeryone, Austin, TX
- Smart Lighting Helps Valencia Save Energy, Protect Nature, and Improve Liveability, Valencia , Spain
- Crowd Sensing For Street Parking, Shenzhen, China
- inCitu: Augmented-Reality-powered City Planning, Agoura Hills, CA
