GeoSpock and Smart Cambridge form commercial smart city partnership

The Smart Cambridge team will use GeoSpock’s spatial big data platform to develop a data-first smart city strategy and improve decision making. This will support the work of the Greater Cambridge Partnership and is expected to bring tangible benefits to the lives of residents, businesses and visitors, including improvements to traffic flow and citizen mobility, as well as to environmental initiatives and the future planning of the city.

GeoSpock will unlock siloed data with the region and provide a ‘common data transformation’ platform as a service, run on Amazon AWS Cloud. Smart Cambridge will use this to share information for the benefit of its staff and third-party organisations working on urban innovation projects. The company claims that this approach will allow local councils to better plan for the future development of new homes and businesses, as well as for public utilities and infrastructure, such as electric charging points, smart roads, autonomous bus routes, and smart energy networks. Predictive analysis and real-time management of people’s needs will also allow councils to plan resourcing ahead of time and improve sustainability.