Dietikon expands information offer on its city app
The city of Dietikon is expanding its information offering on the Dietikon city app to include local real-time data on temperature, air quality and traffic. This expansion completes the last sub-project of the Smart City Innovation Challenge 2020.
The range of information and services in the Dietikon city app has been expanded, according to a press release from the city of Dietikon. The population now has access to numerous local real-time data in the areas of traffic, temperature, air quality or noise. Interested parties can also set up personalised notifications in the app, it continues.
As part of the Smart City Dietikon, data in the areas of traffic, temperature or air quality are collected via sensors at various locations in the city. Until now, this data has primarily been collected internally, according to the statement. Now this data is also available to the general population and the economy in the app.
The modified city app is a newly developed module that was created in close cooperation with the app provider Anthrazit and the Electricity Works of the City of Zurich(EKZ). Dietikon is the first city to use the module, according to the statement.
“I see the presentation of this data as a great benefit for the population,” Jörg Haller, the head of Smart City and Public Lighting at EKZ, who drove the project together with the city of Dietikon, is quoted as saying.
“The city council has set itself the goal of actively driving forward the digital transformation. An internal process is currently underway to further develop the smart city strategy, and other projects are being implemented in parallel,” city president Roger Bachmann is quoted as saying. As an example, he mentions street cleaning with the support of artificial intelligence. The Smart City Dietikon won the main prize at the Smart City Innovation Challenge of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy(SFOE) 2020.