details

St. Louis Pilots IoT Program to Reduce Risk, Improve Disaster Response – Environmental Leader

St. Louis, Missouri, is launching a pilot program that will test the use of technology in an effort to improve its response and reduce risk from major flooding, flash flooding and fire events, as well as to other public safety issues. Ideally, the pilot will prove that interoperability of technology used by varying city services and information sharing – via use of inexpensive web-connected sensors – can reduce risk.

The pilot will use the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA) as its framework; SCIRA integrates commercial Internet of Things sensors across city services using shared technology standards.

Read more…