Smart Economy

Working together to transform challenges into opportunities for innovation.

Smart Dublin will launch a series of open call outs for new solutions to identified city region challenges with lower entry barriers for small businesses and start-ups.

How can we use smart technologies to improve city liveability and competitiveness?
How can we innovate in procurement, taking a challenge based approach to procurement to deliver better quality outcomes for the city?
Positioning Dublin as the place to pilot and scale new smart city technology opportunities.

Smart Challenges

Unheard voices

Encourage engagement of the ‘unheard voices’ in decision-making about the future of their place

Unheard voices

Encourage engagement of the ‘unheard voices’ in decision-making about the future of their place

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Last mile delivery

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Workplace Smart Mobility Hub

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Smart Stories

Public Building Energy Monitoring

Dublin City Council’s Wood Quay offices were built between 1979 and 1994. Read on to learn about the energy metering initiatives that...

Real Time Passenger Information

Now your bus will let you know when to leave the house – giving you more time for household tasks, and less...

CiviQ – Smart Public Engagement

Improving engagement between citizens and local government and providing a new way of analysing public opinion.

Unfolding News App

Fingal County Council’s Award-winning Unfolding News Story App is all about keeping customers up to date on all the latest local authority...

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Get involved

We believe that collaboration is the best approach to find innovative solutions to Dublin’s challenges. If you are working on a smart city solution and would like to test it in Dublin, we would like to hear from you.

Our Engagement Process

We would love to hear your ideas

Since our launch, we have received numerous proposals from companies that would like to work with Smart Dublin. To help facilitate them and give everyone the same opportunity we have developed a simple engagement process.

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Enter Challenge

Smart Dublin is running a series of challenges where we may offer access to:

Seed funds
Access to testbed infrastructure
City expertises

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Smart Stories

Do you have a great smart city story or project that you would like to showcase?

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