SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – San Diego

In this SmartCitiesWorld City Profile explore how San Diego, California’s second-largest city with 1.4 million residents, is leading the way in smart, sustainable and liveable city innovation.

Our San Diego City Profile acts as a toolbox for other cities, splitting out the city’s challenges and matching them to solutions that demonstrate exactly how technology, policy and investment come together to overcome both every-day and long-term issues.

Known as "America’s Finest City," San Diego’s enviable lifestyle – marked by year-round sunshine and abundant green spaces – is now complemented by cutting-edge advancements that are helping to transform urban living, sustainability, safety, and economy.

In this in-depth report, we shine a spotlight on San Diego’s ambitious efforts to build a smarter, more sustainable, and inclusive future, including:

• Smart technology and safety: learn how San Diego is leveraging digital tools like smart streetlights to improve energy efficiency and cut costs – including a deep-dive case study into the work of the San Diego Police Department to use smart streetlights combined with automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras to improve public safety
• Sustainability initiatives: learn about the city’s roadmap to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving 100 per cent renewable energy by 2035, alongside climate adaptation strategies that strengthen resilience
• Equity and Inclusion: discover how San Diego is uplifting underserved communities by boosting prosperity, reducing poverty, and tackling climate vulnerability head-on, as well as how it’s tackling transportation inequity
• Community engagement: explore innovative ways the city is narrowing the digital divide, improving digital equity, and fostering deeper trust between residents and local government
• Mobility for all: dive into the city’s forward-thinking mobility solutions, designed to offer safe, environmentally-friendly, and accessible transportation options
• Tackling poverty and growing local economy: discover how the city’s federally-designated ‘Promise Zone’ sees it collaborating with community-based groups to reverse income inequality, create more affordable housing, and expand educational opportunities.

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On 25 September 2024 we hosted a live webinar with San Diego Police Department’s Captain Jeffrey Jordon. Together with Ubicquia’s Mike Grigsby, Captain Jordon took a step-by-step look at how smart streetlights made their return to San Diego’s streets through an extensive public consultation period, and the impact that the city’s ALPR camera network is having on improving public safety and supporting every-day police work.

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