The Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate is kicking off a pilot program that will test the integration of smart city technologies in St. Louis, Missouri, the agency announced Wednesday.
Working in collaboration with the city and the Open Geospatial Consortium, agency insiders will use the pilot to research, design and assess Homeland Security’s Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture, or SCIRA.
“There’s tremendous pressure on cities, right now,” Norman Speicher, a program manager working in the weeds of the project told Nextgov. “Many municipalities, I do hear that they are being pressured and that there’s this expectation that they know what ‘smart cities’ means—and it really means many things to many people.”
As more cities turn to next-generation technologies to support public safety, the department recognized a need to ensure that the new smart tech is interoperable with city departments and other jurisdictions and that city officials understand its potential, implications and requirements. SCIRA aims to assess standards as they develop in the realm of public safety and support the development of an open architecture for interoperable internet of things sensors.
Through its findings, the program seeks to offer cities open methods for incorporating IoT sensors into their services while also ensuring that appropriate standards are being met.
During the pilot set to take place at a technology innovation center in downtown St. Louis called T-REX, Homeland Security will test how SCIRA works as a framework to integrate ..
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