Faster, Stronger Smart Cities with Location Intelligence

Summary

The market for “Smart Cities” solutions is expected to more than double over the next five years, from $308bn in 2018 to $717bn in 2023.‍

The proliferation of Location Intelligence technologies and solutions is a big part of “Smart Cities” growth. As distinctly spatial entities, cities uniquely benefit from a deeper understanding of ‘where’. From disaster relief and health services, to traffic optimization and more, Location Intelligence is making cities not just smarter, but stronger and faster.

Faster Organization and Implementation of Disaster Relief and Reconstruction

In 2017, Global economic losses from disasters, from devastating hurricanes and earthquakes, to rampaging wildfires, reached
$337 billion. No matter how smart your city is, it can be stopped in its tracks by a natural disaster. Providing relief, both immediate and long term, and rebuilding in the aftermath are critical for a city’s physical, social, and economic recovery. Location Intelligence can help.

One such disaster, the 2017 Puebla Earthquake, cost 370 individuals their lives and toppled 228 buildings in Mexico City alone. The government of Mexico City, empowered by a new city constitution, sought a solution to assess and address city-wide damage. They launched Platforma CDMX, a two-way data sharing platform featuring an interactive map, allowing Mexico City residents to file damage reports and providing a direct line of communication with local officials amid ongoing recovery efforts.

By working with companies like CARTO to develop new solutions, the government of Mexico City aims to equip the city with more resilient infrastructure to withstand future earthquakes.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with their internal states or the external enviroment

Strengthening Traffic and Mobility Systems

Transit systems are the arteries of the city, and when traffic and congestion clog those arteries, cities suffer. Today’s “Smart Cities” are using Location Intelligence, data science, and mobile data streams optimize their roadways.

Connect to CARTO with your user credentials. It works both with personal or enterprise accounts. Choose one of your CARTO datasets and write your analysis in the SQL console. Open the CARTO View, style and visualise. You can of course nest queries, export and share your SQL notebooks.

Greater Citizen Access to City Data

The proliferation of Open Data portals for city data, thankfully, continues unabated. Providing access to data, be it environmental health data, criminal activity reports, construction permitting data, or otherwise, empowers citizens to better examine and understand the cities they live in, and take action to better their own communities.

But the democratization of that data is often hindered by the technical barriers faced by non-technical citizens looking to sink their teeth in.

The proliferation of Open Data portals for city data, thankfully, continues unabated. Providing access to data, be it environmental health data, criminal activity reports, construction permitting data, or otherwise, empowers citizens to better examine and understand the cities they live in, and take action to better their own communities.

But the democratization of that data is often hindered by the technical barriers faced by non-technical citizens looking to sink their teeth in.

Teams like the NYC Planning labs are popping up in city governments, and their work on projects like ZoLa, or New York City’s Zoning and Land Use Map (pictured above), is addressing this challenge head on.

ZoLa’s mapping interface allows users to toggle layers:

• Connect to CARTO with your user credentials. It works both with personal or enterprise accounts.
• Open the CARTO View, style and visualise

to CARTO with your user credentials. It works both with personal or enterprise accounts.
  Choose one of your CARTO datasets and write your analysis in the SQL console.

The proliferation of Open Data portals for city data, thankfully, continues unabated. Providing access to data, be it environmental health data, criminal activity reports, construction permitting data, or otherwise, empowers citizens to better examine and understand the cities they live in, and take action to better their own communities.

But the democratization of that data is often hindered by the technical barriers faced by non-technical citizens looking to sink their teeth in.

The proliferation of Open Data portals for city data, thankfully, continues unabated. Providing access to data, be it environmental health data, criminal activity reports.

You can of course nest queries.

Smarter, Better, Faster, Stronger Cities with Location Intelligence

“Smart Cities” technology will continue to develop and proliferate, offering the urbanists of today and tomorrow the opportunity to change the way that over 50% of the world’s population lives. With unprecedented data sources, powerful visualization tools, and the latest data science methods, Location Intelligence solutions are central to city growth and the capacity that today’s cities have to make life safer, healthier, faster, and better for their citizens.