Smart Cities

Big Data Lays the Foundation for the Smart City of Chicago

Chicago has put in place a innovate set of strategies to become a true Smart City in the future. The city has a range of plans and initiatives that aim to strengthen Chicago’s role as a leader in IoT technology. Its growth as a “city of data” provides a glimpse into the transformational understandings we will one day have of all our cities. Chicago is the first major city in the USA that is building a permanent infrastructure to collect Big Data. “For us in Chicago, it all starts with data. For Mayor Rahm Emanuel, everything comes back to data”, said City of Chicago CIO Brenna Berman. Speaking at the Internet of Things World Forum in Chicago, Berman explained that open data forms the basis of all of the city’s work in building up to becoming a smart city. Chicago will open source all this data to the public, so that anyone can access the […]

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