- Mayor Muriel Bowser
Smart economic development leverages the technology fabric across the city in both the public and private sectors to drive efficiencies, create opportunities, and reduce costs across the entire marketplace. Achieving a smarter, more connected, and capable city will have a positive impact on the District’s economic landscape. For example, public Wi-Fi connects businesses and customers in new ways, even supporting actual business transactions by enabling point-of-sale technologies.
Smart City Initiatives
This project involves deploying sensors in the Downtown DC and Anacostia Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) to monitor waste capacity and utilize data analytics applications that will provide actionable information to inform and enhance waste management is this area
In an effort to streamline and improve coordination of large-scale and special event operations, MPD is interested in working with our DC Government partners (specifically permitting agencies), to develop a centralized information portal and repository
The use of video sensors to classify and count city movement (people, bikes, cares, etc.) to measure traffic volume and flows in key economic development corridors and event locations. The primary goal is to measure city traffic (people, bikes, cars, etc.) for volumes and flows that will provide data analytics to aid in improving city operations, economic planning efforts, and other ways of understanding and improving our city.
This online portal will advises and inform the District’s vendor community when and what the District will procure
Proof of concept project that helps define Smart City governance frameworks, interoperability standards, and models for replication, scalability, and sustainability.
Proof of concept initiative to effectively and efficiently manage parking using Multimodal Value Pricing technology
Initiative to transform an isolated federal precinct into more highly livable and sustainable neighborhood.
Initiative to equip the St. Elizabeths East campus with foundational technology infrastructure that will support future Smart City applications and capabilities.
This is an effort of evaluating the conversion of the District’s street lights to LEDs through an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) model.
Initiative of using sensor technology to capture temperature data that produces heat mapping data analytics.
Initiative that will leverage a network of sensor-based technologies to produce environment data analytics.
OCP will work with the OCFO and OCTO to enhance our Procurement Automated Support System (PASS) and the SOAR financial system to allow vendor invoices to be processed through the systems
The District through Sustainable DC is on its way to be the healthiest, greenest and most livable city in the nation. Smart City technologies help advance the District’s sustainability goals through various data visualization and community monitoring tools, including: smart roof mapping, energy and water benchmarking visualization, urban heat island mapping and the addition of electric vehicles charging stations to buildings.
Certain customers have the potential to be more adversely impacted by interruptions of service or require more specialized notifications when an incident occurs
This initiative will provide customers with access to multiple data sources on-line through a common mapping service
DC Water plans to increase the number of pressure monitoring points in the distribution system to improve the overall management of the system and to ensure the system operates most efficiently
Effective emergency response is essential for maintaining system reliability for the city’s water system
DC Water envisions an intelligent flood management system to more quickly identify potential flooding events using a series of strategically placed flow and level sensors in conjunction of CCTV cameras.
The objective of this initiative is to combine disparate sources of information into a single ArcGIS based portal to optimize resources and improve work planning, scheduling & dispatching
Phase II of PA 2040 PoC focuses on adding smart city technology to develop scalability, sustainability, and interoperability models and frameworks.
Extending our eyes and ears into the system allows for better management and control
This pilot is to evaluate the business value of adding a sensor technology to some of the waste cans that will provide data analytics on the fill levels which will allow DPW to identify if waste collection efficiencies can be achieved using this data.
DOEE partnered with the EPA to bring a solar and wind-powered air monitoring station in the form of an information exhibit in the Smithsonian’s National Zoo
In 2014 a pair of bald eagles decided to nest near the U.S. National Arboretum, which is operated by the United States Department of Agriculture and is the first Bald Eagle pair to nest in this location since 1947
DC Water is currently evaluating the implementation of Leak Detection capabilities to help improve overall water service reliability
Water quality is essential to DC Water’s mission of providing safe and reliable drinking water
Smart health monitoring, telehealth, and other applications rely on the public’s ability to connect to the Internet. Expanded public Wi-Fi and integrated data analytics can support and enhance social program management and responses (for example during extreme weather or air quality conditions) as well as real-time public health communications and long-term planning.
An integrated, responsive, and diverse digital infrastructure is the key factor to achieving a smarter city. Comprehensive infrastructure solutions enable a wide range of technologies such as smart grids and utility systems, intelligent buildings, and mobility solutions that contribute to greater accessibility to city services, more efficient and cost-effective management of city assets and resources, and a more sustainable ecosystem overall.
Initiative to expand Public Wi-Fi coverage in the vicinity of the Washington Monument, Korean War Memorial and World War II memorial.
Smart public safety infrastructure and services act a force multiplier enabling fast, accurate emergency response and crime prevention. Citizens benefit through greater awareness and engagement. Public safety’s ability to integrate data leads to greater actionable intelligence and situational awareness.
A collaborative effort between MPD and OCTO to upgrade and modernize the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) connectivity for MPD’s CCTV network.
Smart transportation efforts help urban mobility and transportation systems become safer, more efficient, and environmentally friendly—overall more intelligent. Citizens benefit through more efficient access use of the District’s roadways, more reliable and predictable public transportation, and more meaningful services associated with mobility. This focus area includes the technologies, business models, ecosystems, and value chains required to make smart transportation a reality.
Smart city data and services will inform, support, and develop from placemaking urban planning efforts in the District, which emphasize not only efficiency and sustainability but concepts of fairness and inclusion.
The Smarter DC approach links capabilities and resources in meaningful ways, is flexible in adapting to and managing change, and has redundancies that are intentional, cost effective, and planned at a city-wide perspective.
Smarter DC helps drive a more sustainable city through innovation, technology, and information to enhance quality of life, efficiency of urban operations and public services, and economic competitiveness.
Smarter DC’s focus reflects the needs of the public as guided through community engagement. Our inclusive approach helps foster a sense of shared ownership and collaboration in building a resilient, capable, and sustainable city.
Achieving a Smarter city requires transparent and engaging governance, culture of participation, visionary city leaders, and empowered and active citizenry.