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SMART Par tnerships Type to enter text SMART Community Exchange (SCE) Platform Pilots - Demonstration Projects Communities across the world are implementing examples of innovative problem solving. Communities are using sensors and real-time data to solve specific problems in areas such as health, transportation, sanitation, public safety, economic development, sustainability, street maintenance, and resilience. Electricity, water, and natural gas meters are connected to the cloud to give subscribers fine-grained control over their resource usage. Cities and communities can now use technology tools for much finer- grained access and management of their streets, above- ground assets, belowground assets, land, and building. Their successes reflect the early stages of the transformation of SMART communities. Communities can share their best practice , methods, and practice with other communities through SMART Community Exchange (SCE) cloud-based platform. This information-sharing platform is designed help to extend SMART activities beyond local confines, benefiting all communities, including those that lack the capacity to innovate on their own. The goal of the SCE is to allow the accumulation and replication of SMART solutions and associated data and technologies in ways that benefit communities with different sizes, different technological know how, and different financial capabilities. Mapping technologies applicable to communities to actual challenges requires moving from science-based research and development to human-focused use cases. Communities are using sensors (often crowd-sourced) and real-time data to solve specific problems in domains such as health, transportation, sanitation, public safety, economic development, sustainability, street maintenance, and resilience. Pilot projects are showing the usefulness of sharing across city-agency and private-sector silos and of new kinds of analytics. Sophisticated use of data also allows communities to set more aggressive future metric goals. A number of forward-looking community plans involving sustainability and resilience rely upon advances in technology and data analytics. International Collaboration and Standards Standards are a common vehicle for propagating and benchmarking best practice, as well as for achieving interoperability. Helping to validate the idea that different kinds of technology are becoming increasingly important to the operation of communities is the emergence of international standards through the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), familiar to technology vendors and others for its quality-management framework and suites of standards for specific kinds of interoperability. The SCE aims at helping communities around the world gauge and improve sustainability ISO, as a part of a suite of standards and part of an effort to promote benchmarking and learning among communities. ISO both builds on and informs local technology development and use activities; compliance with its standards (and other international standards) is key to participating in the increasingly global marketplace. Specific kinds of technologies relevant to urban innovation are associated with specific sets of standards. Federal Government cannot fund all the innovation projects that will move communities forward. Public private partnerships are very effective in motivating groups to create SMART projects for change. For relatively little spending, many local multi-stakeholder teams are energized to come together to produce well thought-out proposals under very tight deadlines. The promise of funding motivates the testing of a complex integrated system that would be impossible to create otherwise. But even the runner-up teams, which have put plans in place, are motivated to find funding to implement their ideas. While the transformations in communities are largely happening bottom-up, coordination and acceleration of activity is something that the Federal Government is uniquely suited to help do. The Department of Transportation Smart Cities Challenge125 was launched in December 2015 and is a promising forerunner to competitions that could be established for cities or districts. The Federal Government can also benefit from its own in- house demonstration projects. Some agencies have natural districts such as campuses and military bases that could house innovative technology solutions to their infrastructure challenges. Website www.SMARTCommunityExchange.com Contact [email protected]