Where are they?
Smart cities are municipal entities that incorporate information and communications technologies into city management. Though they are gaining in popularity, where are they actually being launched? Smart City Tracker is a web-based and open-source platform where you can track and explore local governments' smart city implementation in the United States.
How does it work?
The Smart City database uses Google Custom Search API to systematically search the official websites of 322 cities with a population of more than 100,000. If a city mentions “smart city” on its website, the corresponding location is recorded in the database. This database covers monthly archives starting on January of 2022.
Cloud SCTracker queries the Zenodo Database to find the current records and populates them in a map. From there, you can click on pins which will tell you more about the record, such as where it happened and a link to the event.
Source
The original Smart City Tracker website was built by Meng Cai, a PhD candidate at Michigan State University.
Cai, Meng. (2023). Smart City Tracker: A living archive of smart city prevalence (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7670784