Realizing Smart City Infrastructure at Scale, in the Wild: A Case Study

The smart city term has been widely used for a number of years and many pilot projects limited scale, sector independent initiatives have progressed, but comprehensive, long-term, wide, multi-sector systems are much less evident. This paper examines one such case study in Newcastle, UK highlighting the challenges opportunities that realizing “smart city” concepts at scale present. provides background to Newcastle Urban Observatory project discusses socio-technical practical developing maintaining networks sensors plurality is modern city. We discuss organizational requirements, governance, data quality volume issues, big management current future needs decision makers other stakeholders. Finally, we propose areas where cities can positive impact on public outcomes through discussion two studies related COVID-19 pedestrianization initiatives.