San Antonio presents ‘community-driven’ smart city roadmap

San Antonio in Texas has launched a new Smart Cities Roadmap, detailing its approach for using technology and data to improve public services and quality of life in the US’s seventh-largest city.

“The Smart Cities Team’s Smarter Together Initiative lays out a people-centred vision and strategy that is directly responsive to the needs of San Antonio residents,” said Mayor Ron Nirenberg.

The launch follows over a year of stakeholder engagement and introduces new guiding principles based on community feedback to the question: "what makes a smart city?". The principles are: accessible, connected, efficient, informed, and safe.

A new Smarter Together Testbed will support the testing of s...