Smart Cities Penticton
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The City of Penticton is submitting an application to Infrastructure Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge. The winner of the Smart Cities Challenge for a community of our size will receive $10 million in funding from the federal government to solve the biggest challenge facing Penticton using open data and technology. Our effort is being led by volunteers in the community. The application was submitted April 24. Read a summary in the news feed. Watch for an update this fall.
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A smart city approach is more than just technology and data. It is using an open, collaborative approach to achieve real outcomes to improve the lives of their residents through innovation, data and connected technology. Some examples of a challenge statement:
• “Live an active and healthy life”
• “Be empowered and included in society”
• “Move around my community”
• “Earn a good living”
• “Feel safe and secure”
There are dozens of ways that we can address these issues with technology, data and forward thinking. Share your ideas for the challenge statement and solutions here.
View All Ideasabout 6 years ago
Invest in Becoming a Self-sufficient Powered City (City of the the Future)
Start down the path of creating a pilot project to power part of the city using solar power and wind power that stores the power in utility-grade battery bank (i.e., what Tesla is installing in various parts of the world). Penticton has access to great quantities of both wind and sun which could power the entire city at some point and in fact create enough power to sell back to the grid. Consider finding government funding that can help offset some of the costs and look for strategic private industries to partner with.
about 6 years ago
Smart Lamp Post at major places: Broadband access, Real-time weather and environment data, Smart Connected street light
Given the changes in climate and rainfall patterns, the solution aims to provide cities with a tool to reduce urban flooding, prevent property damage. The effort represents a new way to address an old problem, and adds a level of strategy, efficiency, and effectiveness. Sensors are increasingly valuable tools for better understanding, managing, and planning urban environments, it provides an innovative solution for what can be an everyday urban problem. It is a major step forward for one of City Digital’s most important areas of work: digitizing the public infrastructure. By connecting places with people, it collects real-time data. It provides city more insight into usage of public places and infrastructure, people’s travel pattern, pedestrian safety quality of life, environment. The Human-centric technology addresses the citizen concern about right level of municipal services (snow, water, salt, roadway lighting, EMS, etc.), eliminate administrative task, saves citizen's time and provide real-time feedback to city officials. Most important the historical data provides more insight and provide future prediction that can address climate challenges. It empowers residents with right knowledge, addresses the digital divide and improves socio-economic, health and environmental conditions.
about 6 years ago
Bring beauty of the city - Illuminated and Connected landmarks with content being generated by meaningful events for the citizens
Connect citizens with their city, Increase sense of pride, Increased night-time activity and real-estate value Familiar places are now augmented with meaningful information, are easy to interact with and generate a tighter community spirit. Create a unique identity of Penticton by revitalizing major landmark and iconic monuments using connected technology (architectural lighting, musical fountain, digital arts). Use city infrastructure to inform people and manage urban flow, weather pattern, global events and latest sports event. Example: City of Montreal illuminates downtown historical building and monuments, uses laser projection around the main streets, transformed Jacques Cartier bridge and old Montreal into destination place for young and old generation during day or night. Such beautifully illuminated skyline in the night, connects with young talents and transformed into #AI, #VR, #Gaming capital of Canada.
over 6 years ago
Summer Parking
PROBLEM: Parking downtown in the Summer can be a headache SOLUTION: using IoT (Internet of Things) sensors, the city could build an infrastructure that is able to "detect" when a parking spot is taken or when it is available. A simple website that shows how many spots are available in different areas downtown (through a map for instance) could be a good solution for summertime events and help reduce traffic congestion as people try and get "the best parking spot". You could even make an app out of it and for people with a smart phone they could pay their fee through the app, for people who are a li'l naughty and don't pay for a spot they could pay their ticket by scanning it with the app (maybe with a discount for using the app)
about 6 years ago
Where’s the comments and ideas?
If this is supposed to be such a digitally connected platform why aren’t the ideas streaming in? How are people really supposed to connect if they scatter themselves over every other social media stream? Where are the ideas so everyone can try and leverage each other’s ideas?
