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Smart-city projects documented only by the press

157 of 1167 published projects — 13.5% — where the only figures available come from press coverage, with no primary evaluation located.

The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located.

The weakest documented grade, and the one where numbers travel furthest from their origin. A figure enters circulation through a launch announcement, gets repeated across outlets and aggregators, and arrives three years later looking like an established fact with no traceable measurement behind it. Entries land here when the reporting is credible enough to publish but the underlying source could not be reached: a paywalled evaluation, a dead portal, a ministry page that no longer answers.

Membership here is decided by the data, not by an editor: this page lists every published entry whose evidence grade is the one named above, so nothing can be quietly left out. The grade records the strongest kind of source behind an entry — not how well the project worked.

✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.

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🇺🇸 Atlanta Smart Water Meter Rollout since 2025 · Ongoing 🇩🇪 Bad Hersfeld LärmLAB Noise & Environment Network since 2024 · Ongoing 🇲🇱 Bamako EDM-SA Published Load-Shedding Schedule for Bamako since 2024 · Ongoing 🇮🇩 Bandung BOSEH Bike Share since 2017 · Scaled back 🇪🇸 Barcelona Superblock Sant Antoni since 2018 · Succeeded 🇪🇸 Barcelona T-mobilitat Contactless Fare System since 2022 · Succeeded 🇨🇳 Beijing Beijing Electronic Roadside Parking Charges since 2019 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Beijing Mandatory Waste Sorting & Its Smart-Bin Layer since 2020 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Beijing Yanfang Line: Driverless Metro on Home-Grown Signalling since 2017 · Succeeded 🇷🇸 Belgrade Belgrade Sitraffic Adaptive Traffic Control since 2019 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Bengaluru Bengaluru Adaptive Traffic Control System since 2024 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Bengaluru Bengaluru Potable-Water Restrictions and Reuse Rules since 2024 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Bengaluru Bengaluru Urban Flood Early-Warning Network since 2020 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Bengaluru BMTC Bus Tracking and Open Transit Data since 2023 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Bengaluru BWSSB AI & Robotic Leak-Detection Pilot since 2026 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Bengaluru GEPTIS: Bengaluru's Geospatial Property Tax Map since 2016 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Bengaluru Lakes Monitoring System and the Kere Mitra Volunteers since 2023 · Scaled back 🇬🇼 Bissau SIREC Digital Civil Registry since 2025 · Ongoing 🇨🇴 Bogotá Bogotá's Shared Bike System (Tembici) since 2022 · Scaled back 🇬🇧 Bristol Bristol Heat Network — District Heating the Council Built and Sold since 2016 · Ongoing 🇭🇺 Budapest BudapestGO Mobility Platform Integration since 2023 · Succeeded 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires SUBE: Argentina's Fare Card as a Welfare Instrument since 2009 · Ongoing 🇰🇷 Busan Busan Blockchain Regulation-Free Special Zone since 2019 · Scaled back 🇰🇷 Busan Busan Metro Line 4 Driverless Light Metro since 2011 · Ongoing 🇧🇷 Campo Grande 112 Downtown Cameras, and the Ten Face-Matching Ones That Never Switched On since 2024 · Scaled back 🇧🇷 Campo Grande CCIMU: One Room for Signals, Buses and Plates — and Two-Thirds of the Signal Park Outside It since 2022 · Ongoing 🇲🇦 Casablanca Casablanca City Portal & CasaChikaya Complaints since 2020 · Ongoing 🇵🇭 Cauayan City Drone-Based 3D Digital Twin since 2020 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Chengdu Apollo Go robotaxi pilot — driverless cars with a safety officer still on board since 2022 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Chengdu Electronic parking fences for Chengdu's shared bikes since 2018 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Chengdu Metro Line 9 — Chengdu's first driverless line since 2020 · Succeeded 🇨🇳 Chengdu Multi-function smart poles — folding streetlights, cameras and sensors into one post since 2020 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Chengdu TOCC — Chengdu's citywide transport data coordination centre since 2019 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Chennai Chennai Metro Phase II Driverless (GoA4) Signalling since 2023 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Chennai GCC Smart Parking (Sensor & App-Based On-Street Parking) 2019–2025 · Failed 🇺🇸 Chicago Ventra: Chicago's Open-Loop Fare System and Its Broken Launch since 2013 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Chongqing Apollo Go: Fully Driverless Robotaxis in Yongchuan since 2022 · Ongoing 🇩🇰 Copenhagen Bycyklen: Tablet-and-GPS Bike-Share 2014–2022 · Failed 🇩🇰 Copenhagen Copenhagen's Real-Time Building Energy & Water Surveillance System since 2016 · Succeeded 🇺🇸 Dallas Dallas Police Real-Time Crime Center & CONNECT DALLAS Camera Registry since 2019 · Ongoing 🇧🇩 Dhaka CASE Traffic Signal Automation 2012–2023 · Failed 🇧🇩 Dhaka Semi-Automatic Traffic Signal Pilot (DTCA/BUET) since 2025 · Ongoing 🇸🇳 Diamniadio Senegal Digital City (PTN / Senegal Connect Park) since 2017 · Scaled back 🇨🇲 Douala Port Autonome de Douala Port Management Information System (PMIS) since 2024 · Ongoing 🇦🇪 Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park since 2013 · Ongoing 🇦🇪 Dubai RTA's Autonomous Pod & Shuttle Trials 2018 · Failed 🇦🇪 Dubai Smart Police Stations (SPS) since 2017 · Ongoing 🇳🇱 Eindhoven Cure Afvalbeheer Fill-Level Sensors for Underground Waste Containers since 2015 · Ongoing 🇳🇱 Eindhoven Zero-Emission Freight Zone with ANPR Enforcement since 2025 · Ongoing 🇩🇪 Frankenberg (Eder) Smart Flood Monitoring & Forecast since 2025 · Ongoing 🇩🇪 Frankfurt am Main Parkdatenmanager & VLIS Parking Guidance since 2025 · Ongoing 🇲🇽 Guadalajara Jalisco Transit Routes Published as GTFS since 2026 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Guangzhou Zhujiang New Town Automated People Mover (APM) since 2010 · Ongoing 🇩🇪 Hanau Kreuzung frei — Sensors Secure Rescue Routes since 2026 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Hangzhou Guali Qicai Future Community (Xiaoshan District) since 2019 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Hangzhou Hangzhou Public Bicycle ("Xiaohongche") since 2008 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport Facial-Recognition Security & One-ID Travel since 2018 · Succeeded 🇻🇳 Hanoi Air Quality Monitoring Network since 2016 · Ongoing 🇻🇳 Hanoi Cashless E-Ticketing on the Bus Network since 2023 · Ongoing 🇻🇳 Hanoi HAPULICO Remote Street Lighting Control Network since 2012 · Ongoing 🇻🇳 Hanoi iParking: the Parking App That Never Controlled a Space 2017–2020 · Failed 🇨🇳 Harbin Chengbotong Smart Parking Guidance & Payment since 2023 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Harbin Harbin Daoli Automated District Heating Network since 2007 · Succeeded 🇨🇳 Harbin Metro & Bus QR Code Fare Interoperability since 2018 · Ongoing 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City Open-Loop Transit Payments & MultiPass since 2025 · Ongoing 🇺🇸 Houston Houston BCycle Bike-Share (2012–2024) 2012–2024 · Failed 🇺🇸 Houston Houston Water's Decade-Long Smart Meter Replacement since 2021 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Hyderabad Adaptive Traffic Signal Control (ATCS/CoSiCoSt) since 2022 · Ongoing 🇰🇷 Incheon Incheon Data Portal since 2020 · Ongoing 🇰🇷 Incheon Incheon Metro Line 2's Road to Fully Unattended Operation since 2016 · Succeeded 🇮🇩 Jakarta Jakarta Neighbourhood Flood Sirens and Sensor Posts since 2019 · Ongoing 🇺🇸 Kansas City The Downtown Smart City Corridor and the Expansion Nobody Was Chosen to Build since 2016 · Scaled back 🇵🇰 Karachi Green Line BRT and the Breeze Fare System since 2021 · Ongoing 🇵🇰 Karachi Peoples Bus Service Live-Tracking App since 2022 · Ongoing 🇯🇵 Kashiwa Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City since 2014 · Ongoing 🇳🇵 Kathmandu Kathmandu Metropolitan Air Quality Monitoring Dashboard since 2025 · Ongoing 🇸🇩 Khartoum Bankak: a Banking App as Wartime Lifeline since 2014 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Kolkata CESC Special Protection Scheme — Grid Islanding (Kolkata) Succeeded 🇮🇳 Kolkata e-KMC 2.0 Grievance Tracking & Monitoring Centre (Kolkata Municipal Corporation) since 2026 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Kolkata Green Line CBTC Signalling & Automatic Train Operation (Kolkata Metro) since 2024 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Kolkata IoT Smart Street Lighting Pilot with TCS (Kolkata Municipal Corporation) since 2026 · Ongoing 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur MRT Kajang & Putrajaya Lines: GoA4 as the Baseline since 2016 · Ongoing 🇰🇼 Kuwait City MEW Smart Meter Rollout since 2021 · Ongoing 🇺🇦 Kyiv Kyiv Metro Open-Loop Bank-Card Fares & Token Retirement since 2015 · Succeeded 🇵🇰 Lahore IC3 Integrated Safe City Command Centre since 2016 · Ongoing 🇵🇰 Lahore Orange Line Metro: Automated Trains, Drivers in the Cab since 2020 · Ongoing 🇲🇼 Lilongwe eVax Cold Chain Guard — Digital Vaccine Cold-Chain Tracking since 2024 · Ongoing 🇵🇹 Lisbon Carris Real-Time Bus & Tram Tracking since 2020 · Ongoing 🇬🇧 London Santander Cycles since 2010 · Ongoing 🇺🇸 Los Angeles Metro Micro On-Demand Shared Rides since 2020 · Ongoing 🇵🇭 Manila GO Manila e-government app since 2020 · Succeeded 🇵🇭 Manila MMDA Metrobase Traffic Command Centre & Public Traffic Feed since 2014 · Ongoing 🇵🇭 Manila No-Contact Apprehension Policy Camera Enforcement 2020–2022 · Scaled back 🇵🇭 Manila Number Coding: Metro Manila's Plate-Based Driving Ban since 1995 · Ongoing 🇲🇿 Maputo SIGEM Municipal Management System since 2009 · Ongoing 🇨🇴 Medellín Metroplús Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) & Fleet Telematics since 2011 · Ongoing 🇨🇴 Medellín SIATA Early Warning Network since 2010 · Ongoing 🇺🇸 Miami Metromover: fare-free driverless people mover in downtown Miami since 1986 · Ongoing 🇺🇸 Miami Miami-Dade's Chief Heat Officer and Extreme Heat Action Plan 2021–2025 · Scaled back 🇨🇦 Montreal Montreal's GPS-tracked snow clearing and Info-Neige alerts since 2014 · Ongoing 🇷🇺 Moscow Paid Parking Zone with Camera-Car Enforcement since 2012 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Mumbai BEST electric bus fleet since 2017 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Mumbai Mumbai Metro Aqua Line (Line 3) — Automated Underground Corridor since 2024 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Mumbai Mumbai One Integrated Ticketing App since 2025 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Mumbai Mumbai Power Grid Islanding Scheme since 1981 · Ongoing 🇩🇪 Munich MVG Rad Bike-Share 2015–2025 · Succeeded 🇩🇪 Munich SWM Citywide LoRaWAN IoT Network since 2018 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Nanjing Metro Line 7 GoA4 Automated Operation since 2022 · Ongoing 🇸🇦 NEOM The Line since 2021 · Scaled back 🇪🇬 New Administrative Capital New Administrative Capital since 2019 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 New Delhi Open Transit Data Portal & Live Bus Feeds since 2018 · Ongoing 🇬🇱 Nuuk Nukissiorfiit's PULSE Digital Utility Platform since 2024 · Ongoing 🇳🇴 Oslo Oslo's Time- and Emission-Differentiated Toll Ring since 2017 · Ongoing 🇵🇹 Paredes PlanIT Valley 2008–2016 · Failed 🇫🇷 Paris Vélib' — Paris Bike-Share since 2007 · Ongoing 🇺🇸 Philadelphia SEPTA Key Fare Card & Open-Loop Contactless Payment since 2016 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Pune Pune Metro's CBTC Signalling (Lines 1 & 2) since 2022 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Pune Pune's Adaptive Traffic Management System (ATMS) since 2022 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Pune Pune's Construction-Site Air Quality Monitoring Mandate since 2025 · Ongoing 🇮🇳 Pune Pune's GIS-Based Property Tax Mapping since 2016 · Ongoing 🇧🇷 Recife Centro de Operações do Recife (COP) since 2023 · Ongoing 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro Bike Rio: the bike share a city sold rather than permitted since 2011 · Ongoing 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro Rio's Heat Levels: a five-tier extreme-heat protocol since 2024 · Ongoing 🇮🇹 Rome ZTL Centro Storico Electronic-Gate Access Control since 2001 · Ongoing 🇺🇸 San Diego Intelligent Streetlight IoT Sensor Mesh since 2018 · Scaled back 🇺🇸 San Francisco Waymo & Cruise Robotaxis: Permitted by the State, Not the City since 2022 · Ongoing 🇨🇱 Santiago Santiago Metro Automation: Two Cabless Lines and CBTC on the Rest since 2017 · Succeeded 🇨🇱 Santiago Santiago's Suspended Smart Electricity Meter Rollout since 2018 · Failed 🇩🇴 Santo Domingo Santo Domingo Metro Contactless Bank Card Payment Pilot since 2026 · Ongoing 🇧🇷 São Paulo Bike Sampa: a bike share the city permits rather than buys since 2012 · Scaled back 🇧🇷 São Paulo SP156: São Paulo's unified municipal service request channel since 2016 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Shanghai Shanghai New Energy Vehicle Data Monitoring Centre since 2014 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Shenzhen Tencent Net City since 2021 · Ongoing 🇮🇩 Surabaya Surabaya Waste Fleet GPS Tracking & Cleanliness Dashboard since 2026 · Ongoing 🇮🇩 Surabaya Suroboyo Bus — Plastic-Bottle Fare Transit since 2018 · Scaled back 🇺🇿 Tashkent Tashkent Water Transformation Plan (SUEZ) since 2023 · Ongoing 🇭🇳 Tegucigalpa Río Choluteca Real-Time Flood Sensor Network (Sistema de Alerta Temprana) since 2024 · Ongoing 🇨🇦 Toronto Sidewalk Toronto (Quayside) 2017–2020 · Failed 🇨🇦 Vancouver Google Project Green Light: AI Traffic-Signal Recommendations since 2026 · Ongoing 🇺🇸 Washington D.C. District Smart Lighting P3 Modernization since 2022 · Ongoing 🇺🇸 Washington D.C. ShotSpotter Acoustic Gunshot Detection, In Service Since 2006 since 2006 · Ongoing 🇨🇳 Wuhan Apollo Go Robotaxi Network since 2022 · Ongoing

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