Itron Invites Innovators to Participate in Smart City Challenge
Bringing Together Leading IoT Developers and Cities, Itron’s First in Series of Smart City Challenges Seeks Solutions to Real World Problems
Participants are invited to develop solutions to address challenges defined by the participating cities.
Glasgow : Improve travel choices and experience during events in the city while promoting the overall city center offer
The City ofGlasgow is one of the world’s top sporting cities and a major destination for conferences and concerts. Many thousands of people come to the city on a regular basis to experience its year-round calendar of events. However, this brings significant challenges in getting people safely and conveniently around the city to their location. It also impacts residents and particularly, the public transport system. In order to maintain its position as a top destination and attract even more visitors,Glasgow is seeking solutions to safely and efficiently manage the movements of large influxes of people in order to ensure that they have a positive experience.
London : Enhance safety along the River Thames in centralLondon The City of London Corporation would like to find new ways to improve river safety through technology to meet the City’s safety and public health priorities. Due to the life-threatening nature of river entries, theCity Corporation is seeking solutions that accelerate emergency response times and that protect citizens by ensuring the availability of safety equipment when it is needed.
Utilizing Itron’s standards-based developer tools, technology providers are invited to integrate their solutions with Itron’s IoT platform to tackle any of these key business and societal challenges. Qualified participants will receive free hardware development kits and engineering support to accelerate the development of Wi-SUN-based solutions. By taking advantage of the Wi-SUN Field Area Network (FAN) technical specification, successful solutions will be interoperable with a global footprint of more than 89 million devices worldwide, providing increased commercial opportunity for participants. The winners of each challenge will get a chance to collaborate with leading cities to refine their solutions and will be featured in a marketing campaign to Itron’s global customer base of cities and utilities.
The application period is now open and will close on
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“This challenge represents our vision to tap into the developer community to catalyze innovation and economic development in leading global cities. It also demonstrates the strength and flexibility of Itron’s IoT network, which enables a multitude of solutions to address any number of smart city challenges. What’s really exciting about this program is that these challenges are relevant to almost all cities around the world, and our city partners are equally interested in the solutions provided for the others.”
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