SMART Cities KC Initiative
Our Kansas City STEMS students have a unique opportunity to participate in an entrepreneurial Digital Sandbox! Students who are willing to understand the SMART Cities concept, learn how to code, know how IoT works and work hard to complete their projects can fulfill their wildest dreams!
The SMART Cities Living Lab has a Digital Sandbox for this very purpose. You can create and test your concept to help Kansas City reach its connected technology goals.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as "connected devices" and "smart devices"), buildings, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity which enable these objects to collect and exchange data.
What is a SMART City? A smart city is an urban development vision to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) and Internet of things (IoT) technology in a secure fashion to manage a city's assets. A smart city is promoted to use urban informatics and technology to improve the efficiency of services. (Wikipedia)
Kansas City is now a SMART City
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