Honeywell’s smart city accelerator programme is helping expand growth in five US cities to support safer, more efficient, resilient and equitable communities.
Working with non-profit Accelerator for America, the programme aims to help cities strategically plan their futures and build capacity to fund transformational initiatives. The five cities are Cleveland, Louisville in Kentucky, Kansas in Missouri, San Diego, and Waterloo in Iowa.
Through the accelerator, each city will receive technical support from Honeywell to develop a smart city strategic plan. Each plan will align key stakeholders, define priorities, and identify high-impact and inclusive initiatives that advance residents’ quality of life in areas such as climate resiliency, public safety, operational efficiency and improved service delivery. Each city will also receive support in applying for federal grants to support the implementation of identified projects.
Accelerator for America is a non-profit organisation led by an advisory council of mayors, labour and business leaders, and urban and economic development experts that finds and develops methods to improve economic insecurity and shares them with cities to create national change from the ground up.
“We are proud to work with Accelerator for America so cities of all sizes can advance their smart city journeys and drive meaningful outcomes such as advancing sustainability efforts, creating equity, digitalising systems and helping to improve safety,” said Matthew Britt, general manager for smart cities at Honeywell. “A smart city eliminates silos, identifies integration opportunities and uses data to institute change.”
Mary Ellen Wiederwohl, CEO of Accelerator for America, added: “Identifying and creating local initiatives to grow community wealth and increase economic security is how we advance our mission to create national change from the ground up, and that’s exactly what the Honeywell smart city accelerator programme does. Honeywell’s expertise in smart city technology will benefit the people in each of the cities we work with and, together, we will create models for other cities to follow.”
The five cities were chosen via an application process that looked at the cities’ visions and data strategies and reviewed each city’s strategic plan, sustainability plan, climate plan, and operating and capital budgets. Working with city stakeholders, Honeywell will create a four-track plan for each city:
Track 1 – Smart city vision: Identifies priorities and desired outcomes from a focused set of key stakeholders. It will include resiliency focused goals such as reducing operational costs, enhancing resident engagement, strengthening community resiliency, improving public safety and bridging the equity gap.
Track 2 – Operational framework: Serves as a roadmap for managing and supporting smart city projects. It will help cities integrate new capabilities into current systems and processes, define associated KPIs, and serve as an essential element for grant applications.
Track 3 – Project definition: Defines high-impact projects and potential business models that can be implemented to achieve the goals defined in track one, including programme statements, recommendations, high-level requirements and expected benefits.
Track 4 – Smart city project plan: Identifies tasks and processes to help guide cities through project implementation as well as define overall smart cities governance structures.
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