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What is the Smart Cities Challenge?
The City of Kingston participated in the Government of Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge. The Challenge encourages communities to submit their ideas for how to improve the lives of residents through innovation, data and connected technology. The City could receive an investment of $10 million to further develop its Smart Kingston Strategy and implement innovations.
Learn about how the City’s participation in the Smart Cities Challenge fits within the Smart Kingston Strategy.
Read more about the application process and timing on the Latest Updates page.
What is the Smart Cities Challenge?
The City of Kingston participated in the Government of Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge. The Challenge encourages communities to submit their ideas for how to improve the lives of residents through innovation, data and connected technology. The City could receive an investment of $10 million to further develop its Smart Kingston Strategy and implement innovations.
Learn about how the City’s participation in the Smart Cities Challenge fits within the Smart Kingston Strategy.
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Kyle Corkum imagines a “smart city” with futuristic amenities like
driverless shuttle services, heated sidewalks and a super-resilient
energy grid that keeps humming through the harshest of storms.
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Kingston City Council has approved an agreement towards a public-private
partnership between the city and Bell that will employ Bell's Smart
City platform to provide a series of connected Internet of Things (IoT)
applications. Bell's innovative technology will create a more mobile,
efficient, collaborative and environmentally sustainable Smart City.
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