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The projects listed below are a small selection of the wide range of smart initiatives being carried out across our partner cities. Click on each of the projects to view more information.

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Cork City Council Retrofitting for Sustainable Smart Social Housing

Cork City Council’s Housing Directorate is implementing a number of smart retrofitting projects across a portion of its 10,500 social houses. These projects aim to explore how retrofitting and the…

Smart ‘City Trees’ installed to help tackle pollution

Five striking high-tech ‘CityTrees’ have been installed in Cork city centre as part of Cork City Council’s Air Quality Strategy and as a site-specific solution to the challenge of air…

Cork City Council Launches Innovative Air Quality Strategy

Cork City Council is the first local authority in Ireland to produce an Air Quality Strategy. This strategy follows on from the delivery of a high-level air quality monitoring system…

Regional Energy Strategy for the North West

Derry City & Strabane District Council (DCSDC) and Donegal County Council (DCC) both recognise the need to transition towards a smart, low carbon economy which can deliver sustainable prosperity for…

School Streets: Improving Safety and Wellbeing for primary School Pupils

Launched in November 2019, the Fingal County Council School Streets initiative explores how car-free zones outside schools can create safer, cleaner and more environmentally friendly spaces. The initiative is being…

IoT Energy Monitoring

Reducing our energy consumption is an important action in the fight against climate change. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are committed to reducing their energy consumption at an organisation level. In…

Last Mile Delivery

A desire to find a way to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of urban deliveries was the inspiration behind the “Last Mile Delivery Challenge”. Launched in late 2018, the project…

Google Environmental Insights Explorer Data-driven Decision Making

In October 2019, Google launched Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) in Europe, a free online tool, designed in collaboration with Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy which uses data…

Drones for Illegal Dumping

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, most commonly known as drones, are increasingly used in the delivery of services across the world. From videography and journalism, to safety inspections of inaccessible infrastructure; drones…

Smart Dublin benches bringing smart city technology to life in our communities

Throughout the first half of 2019, smart benches were installed in a number of spots across the Dublin region bringing the future of smart technology to our streets and parks.…

Invasive Species App

Invasive species of plants taking over land is a huge environmental problem facing many local authorities all over Ireland and beyond. Some plants can damage built infrastructure as well as…

Machine Learning to support rates collection

The accurate collection of Business Rates income is important for the delivery of properly funded public services. However, in a complex, dynamic environment it’s increasingly difficult to keep an up-to-date…

Smart Bins in Dublin

Self compacting bins that send an email when they need to be emptied – no we are not kidding! There has been a quiet revolution going on in the leafy…

Public Building Energy Monitoring

One of the biggest challenges worldwide is climate change and the need to reduce emissions. The EU Climate and Energy Package which came out of the Paris talks in December…

Energy Efficiency Projects with SEAI Better Energy Communities

Cork City Council and Northside Enterprise Centre have implemented a number of projects across Cork City which have been funded through SEAI’s better energy Communities programme. The value of these…

Smart Storage – Cork

Solo Energy has teamed up with Cork City Council to install a groundbreaking energy storage system at Ballyvolane Fire Station. It’s hoped that the project will save taxpayers up to…

Enhancing Cleanliness of Cork City through Graffiti Removal

Cork City Council together with the Cork Smart Gateway initiative have launched the €70,000 Small Business Research and Innovation (SBIR) Challenge with Enterprise Ireland. This seed fund challenge invites applicants…

GrowSmarter

Cork City is currently a ‘follower city’ in a Horizon 2020 Smart Cities and Communities project called GrowSmarter, a €25m initiative (lead cities: Stockholm, Cologne, and Barcelona). GrowSmarter establishes three…

Solar Compacting Bins

Kyron Street Limited are the distributer of the Bigbelly smart solar compacting bins and have offered to do a trial of these bin in Galway City. These bins have a…

Sensing the Environment

Cork City Council has installed a number of environmental sensors in the city to help provide real time information about the city. Currently there are sensors monitoring real time water…