Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping smart cities in the United States. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
Recently founded means a recorded 2023–2026 founding year and no recorded parent, acquirer or public-company status. These companies are not labelled startups without that separate classification.
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161 of 2,046 tracked companies have open roles.
532 of 2,046 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 761 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 23.7% of disclosed capital, while 74.0% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $380.42M | 100 | 71 |
| 2017 | $557.92M | 106 | 79 |
| 2018 | $729.46M | 123 | 75 |
| 2019 | $512.45M | 97 | 64 |
| 2020 | $1.45B | 81 | 62 |
| 2021 | $1.7B | 61 | 63 |
| 2022 | $2.26B | 26 | 70 |
| 2023 | $589.5M | 41 | 50 |
| 2024 | $883.44M | 43 | 50 |
| 2025 | $3.25B | 19 | 49 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
922 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in smart cities company rounds since 2016.
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Backed by Insight Partners and Work-Bench and others.
Backed by Mike Rosengarten and Jack Altman and others.
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Backed by Samaipata.
Backed by Jeremy Renner.
Backed by SoftBank and Mubadala and others.
Backed by LionTree and BDT & MSD Partners and others.
Backed by JMI Management and TCV and others.
Backed by Bedrock and Andreessen Horowitz and others.
Backed by Vista Equity Partners and L Catterton.
Backed by Sequoia Capital and Goldcrest and others.
Backed by Abry and Karlani Capital and others.
Backed by 3L Capital and Assembly Ventures and others.
Backed by Bain Capital.
Backed by Graham Holdings Co and ArrowMark Partners and others.
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 5 reporting entities from 10 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not the United States market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
None of 5 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
FY2025 · 5 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Tech ↗860731 | $2,332.3m | $315.6m | +13.5% | — | — |
| Badger Meter ↗9092 | $916.7m | $141.6m | +15.5% | — | — |
| i3 Verticals ↗1728688 | $213.2m | $17.9m | +8.4% | — | — |
| Rekor ↗1697851 | $48.5m | $-31.5m | -64.9% | — | — |
| Defense Technologies International ↗1533357 | $0.0m | $-0.9m | — | — | — |
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| Industry | Covered / eligible | Revenue total | Median revenue | Net profit / loss | Aggregate margin | Profitable share | Overlap |
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Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
How the the United States companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
37 of the 1,981 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (1.9%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 411,614 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| GovDeliverygovdelivery.com | 5,652,312 | 60 | 83% |
| GovDealsgovdeals.com | 3,469,781 | 51 | 62.5% |
| City-Datacity-data.com | 2,356,278 | 52 | 76.1% |
| OpenGovopengov.com | 2,310,360 | 48 | 13.1% |
| Telmatetelmate.com | 1,509,000 | 35 | 91.2% |
| Municodemunicode.com | 1,307,445 | 53 | 27.8% |
| GovPlanetgovplanet.com | 978,880 | 44 | 73.4% |
| ecode360ecode360.com | 883,371 | 47 | 23.8% |
| Flock Safetyflocksafety.com | 880,181 | 48 | 13.6% |
| SpotCrimespotcrime.com | 843,205 | 43 | 75% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
321 of these companies (16.2%) publish at least one Android app — 1,042 apps in all, carrying 51.1M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Police Scanner - Live RadioPolice Scanner | 13.6M | 4.8 | News & Magazines |
| MobilePatrol Public Safety AppAppriss Insights | 7.7M | 2.7 | Social |
| Securus MobileSecurus Technologies | 5.2M | 3.6 | Communication |
| GettingOut VisitsTelmate | 3.5M | 3.3 | Communication |
| PulsePoint RespondPulsePoint | 2.1M | 4.6 | Medical |
| Watch Duty: Wildfire & FloodsWatch Duty | 2M | 4.8 | Communication |
| Healthy TogetherHealthy Together | 1.9M | 4.7 | Health & Fitness |
| MyFlorida for the FLHSMVPayIt | 856.1K | 2.4 | Productivity |
| ActiveAlertActive911 | 723.6K | 4 | Communication |
| MD Practice Driving TestNiC | 665.1K | 4.7 | Education |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2024Q1–2026Q2).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Govtech | 932 | 50.4M | Police Scanner - Live Radio 13.6M | |
| Healthcare It | 8 | 1.9M | Healthy Together 1.9M | |
| Disease Self Management | 2 | 1.9M | Missouri SuN Bucks 58 | |
| Payments | 23 | 1.8M | MyFlorida for the FLHSMV 856.1K | |
| Services For Government | 33 | 1.8M | myNCDMV 437K | |
| Enterprise Resource Planning | 40 | 1.3M | My Ride K-12 427.1K | |
| Security & Surveillance Technology | 69 | 647.2K | BlackBerry AtHoc 179.3K | |
| Smart Cities | 128 | 514.3K | Ambee: Air Quality & Pollen 136.3K |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 1,024 of 1,042 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
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Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
155 companies hiring · $14.64B disclosed funding
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Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Neology – which won the Sustainable Cities Challenge organised by the Toyota Mobility Foundation and secured USD 500,000 to develop a hydrogen refuelling solution in Detroit.
NEOGOV Acquires Miller Mendel
Badger Meter, Inc. (NYSE: BMI) has agreed to acquire United Kingdom-based UDlive for $100 million plus contingent consideration
Flock Safety, which sells cameras, drones and AI software to police departments, was valued at $8.4 billion in a new round of funding completed in recent weeks.
LSI Industries Inc. (Nasdaq: LYTS , “LSI” or the “Company”) a leading U.S. based manufacturer of commercial lighting and display solutions, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Royston Group (“Royston”), a leader in identity and equipment solutions for retail environments, from Industrial Opportunity Partners (“IOP”), following the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and expiration of applicable regulatory waiting periods.
Pivotal recently put $3 million into a company called Binti, Fortune is the first to report, a direct investment not attached to any fundraising round.
PowerDMS acquires PowerDetails
Ubicquia – $106.0M
L Squared Capital Partners said today it bought Functional Devices Inc., a provider of field devices for building automation and emergency lighting systems. Financial details were not released.
Guardify acquired the NCAtrak case management software division from National Childrens Alliance to enhance its nonprofit and public sector technology portfolio.
Top 10 categories among 564 recorded events in the 24-month window.
1 companies with recorded IPO activity
IPO activity · OTCQB1 reports
37 tracked people moves
Appointment Chief Transformation and Operations Officer
Appointment Chief People Officer
Appointment Member of Forbes Technology Council
Resignation Member of BS&A\'s Board of Directors
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Promotion Co-founder & Chairman Emeritus
Appointment Chief Innovation and Growth Officer
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
AI-driven public-safety platform
AI-driven public-safety platform
Mobile security communications
channel partner orchestration portal
radon monitor
AI-powered procurement feature
ERP finance platform solutions for local government
25 recorded customer wins
1 companies with reported reductions
110 rolesmarket downturn
1 recorded events
approved for sale to government agenciesU.S. General Service Administration
5 tracked suits
Shareholder proposal regulationRegulatory ·
proprietary information theftCivil · Filed
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 117 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEOGOV→Miller Mendel ↗ | Announced | 2026-04-28 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Badger Meter→udlive | Announced | 2026-04-22 | $100.0M |
| LSI Industries→royston group | Completed | 2026-04-16 | $325.0M |
| powerdms→PowerDetails ↗ | Announced | 2026-03-17 | Not stated in snapshot |
| l squared capital partners→Functional Devices ↗ | Announced | 2026-02-23 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Guardify→NCAtrak | Announced | 2026-02-18 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
4,639 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 6,934-posting snapshot covers 235 employers.
190 tracked postings mention remote work.
2,840 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 6,934 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 593 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.
| Company | Open roles |
|---|---|
| Vontier ↗ | 13 |
| Particle Measuring Systems ↗ | 12 |
| Kaseware ↗ | 11 |
| Adura Technologies ↗ | 11 |
| Albireo Energy ↗ | 11 |
| Govini ↗ | 11 |
| OpenGov ↗ | 11 |
| Flock Safety ↗ | 11 |
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| Vontier ↗ | 8,000 |
| Tyler Tech ↗ | 7,271 |
| Badger Meter ↗ | 2,140 |
| Lutron Electronics ↗ | 1,993 |
| LSI Industries ↗ | 1,540 |
| CentralSquare ↗ | 1,454 |
| Albireo Energy ↗ | 884 |
| Texas Juvenile Justice Department ↗ | 773 |
1,182 founders and chief executives across 935 companies.
Ex-Global Airtech, Transamerica Investment Management, HDFC Securities · Boston College BA 2003
Ex-A.T. Kearney, Verticalnet. Northwestern University BS, MS 2004
Kindred Minds Advisory Board, ex- Co-Founder Flock Safety, Moment LLC. Georgia Institute of Technology BS 2007…
Rapidsos, ex-Braemar Energy Ventures, ex-Ms Consulting, Harvard Business School, 2015
Ex-Xception Software, The Extra Mile, Silver Fern Holidays Group, Logical Computers. University of Canterbury BE 1992
Xpandable, ex-Co-Founder Locality Media, NetSuite, Canadian PGA Tour and European Challenge Tour. Georgetown University McDonough School of Business…
Ex-Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet. Harvard University AB 1989, University of California Berkeley PhD 2002
Payit, ex-Safe Fleet, ex-Quinn Capital, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1991
Flexcharging, ex-Incubatenergy Network, ex-Gmo, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, 2015
Ex-VP Huawei Technologies, SMA America, Sixtron Advanced Materials, Rockwell Automation, Motion Engineering. UC Snata Barbara, BS 1994
Alpha College Of Engineering BE, Tamilnadu Teachers Education University BEd 2024
Ex-Fingenom. Bar-Ilan University BSc 2012 & MSc 2014
158 profiles with education records.
25 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
2,144,456 articles in the measured 12-month window.
Smart Cities coverage across United States · articles per complete quarter
| Quarter | Articles |
|---|---|
| 2021Q2 | 463,256 |
| 2021Q3 | 486,475 |
| 2021Q4 | 464,453 |
| 2022Q1 | 506,815 |
| 2022Q2 | 499,667 |
| 2022Q3 | 514,314 |
| 2022Q4 | 573,169 |
| 2023Q1 | 594,686 |
| 2023Q2 | 591,901 |
| 2023Q3 | 532,722 |
| 2023Q4 | 499,173 |
| 2024Q1 | 512,902 |
| 2024Q2 | 498,465 |
| 2024Q3 | 490,464 |
| 2024Q4 | 523,383 |
| 2025Q1 | 777,166 |
| 2025Q2 | 539,711 |
| 2025Q3 | 1,278,963 |
| 2025Q4 | 268,539 |
| 2026Q1 | 384,664 |
| 2026Q2 | 212,290 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
945 recorded company events across 97 companies; percentages use that event total.
Smart Cities coverage across United States · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
Smart Cities coverage across United States
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| stablecoin fx impact | 5,157 | 3,576 | 44% |
| countries | 3,925 | 1,959 | 100% |
| etf trading | 2,852 | 1,629 | 75% |
| oil price volatility | 2,544 | 1,101 | 131% |
| etfs | 2,433 | 1,454 | 67% |
| sector etfs | 2,275 | 1,370 | 66% |
| etf products | 2,151 | 1,211 | 78% |
| etf structures | 2,072 | 1,216 | 70% |
| export sanctions | 1,728 | 615 | 181% |
| crypto volatility fx | 1,706 | 818 | 109% |
| tariff negotiations | 12,508 | 20,810 | -40% |
| free trade deals | 5,293 | 8,437 | -37% |
| stock price | 2,313 | 3,830 | -40% |
| trade enforcement | 1,984 | 3,228 | -39% |
| economic slowdown | 1,405 | 2,755 | -49% |
Smart Cities coverage across United States
territories, disputed islands, tariff negotiations
41.8% critical · 19.8% positiveinvestment deal, inflation reports fx, currency intervention policies
45.7% critical · 40.4% positiveearnings report, quarterly results, quarterly financials
36.1% critical · 44.4% positiveSmart Cities coverage across United States. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
4,295 papers in the recorded india scope.
Tone counts: 4,102 positive · 42 neutral · 151 negative.
Landmark: Understanding Smart Cities: An Integrative Framework
Landmark: Connected and automated vehicle systems: Introduction and overview
Landmark: A Multiagent Approach to Autonomous Intersection Management
Common problems researchers identify · 0128.9% of this theme group
Researchers highlight governance, public relations, and sustainability hurdles in implementing smart city initiatives.
Smart city (163) · Public relations (23) · Sustainability (29) · Corporate governance (37)
Understanding Smart Cities: An Integrative Framework
Smart City Implementation Through Shared Vision of Social Innovation for Environmental Sustainability
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 446.0 |
| 2023 | 478.2 |
| 2024 | 414.1 |
| 2025 | 478.2 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0216.6% of this theme group
Papers point to technical and engineering problems limiting advanced traffic management and transportation integration.
Intelligent transportation system (100) · Transport engineering (36) · Advanced Traffic Management System (11) · Systems engineering (6)
Sensor Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Intelligent transportation spaces: vehicles, traffic, communications, and beyond
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 320.2 |
| 2023 | 311.0 |
| 2024 | 235.7 |
| 2025 | 165.1 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0313.3% of this theme group
Studies discuss difficulties in leveraging big data for effective urban computing and planning decisions.
Big data (39) · Urban computing (12) · Urban planning (18) · Smart city (46)
Smart cities with big data: Reference models, challenges, and considerations
Advancing Data-Driven Decision-Making in Smart Cities through Big Data Analytics: A Comprehensive Review of Existing Literature
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 950.6 |
| 2023 | 956.9 |
| 2024 | 987.6 |
| 2025 | 1103.4 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0411.2% of this theme group
Authors flag cybersecurity and privacy risks inherent in IoT‑enabled smart city applications.
Smart city (73) · Computer security (42) · Internet privacy (12) · Internet of Things (17)
Security and Privacy in Smart City Applications: Challenges and Solutions
Cyber security challenges in Smart Cities: Safety, security and privacy
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1696.5 |
| 2023 | 1696.9 |
| 2024 | 1655.4 |
| 2025 | 1279.6 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0510.3% of this theme group
Research identifies vulnerabilities and trust issues within vehicular ad‑hoc networks and automotive software deployments.
Vehicular ad hoc network (17) · Computer security (30) · Automotive industry (11) · Software deployment (18)
A Survey on Recent Advances in Vehicular Network Security, Trust, and Privacy
Security attacks and solutions for vehicular <i>ad hoc</i> networks
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1077.7 |
| 2023 | 1071.1 |
| 2024 | 891.8 |
| 2025 | 448.5 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0610.0% of this theme group
Papers note obstacles in scaling IoT devices, cloud integration, and software deployment for smart city services.
Internet of Things (53) · Smart city (43) · Cloud computing (11) · Software deployment (11)
IoT in Smart Cities: A Survey of Technologies, Practices and Challenges
Sensing, Controlling, and IoT Infrastructure in Smart Building: A Review
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1949.9 |
| 2023 | 1965.7 |
| 2024 | 2100.9 |
| 2025 | 2202.1 |
Common problems researchers identify · 079.7% of this theme group
Works emphasize persistent congestion, flow inefficiencies, and planning constraints in intelligent transportation systems.
Transportation planning (8) · Intelligent transportation system (26) · Traffic congestion (11) · Traffic flow (7)
Autonomous Driving Strategies at Intersections: Scenarios, State-of-the-Art, and Future Outlooks
Large Language Models for Mobility Analysis in Transportation Systems: A Survey on Forecasting Tasks
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 132.5 |
| 2023 | 129.8 |
| 2024 | 96.8 |
| 2025 | 138.3 |
Cautions · 0135.3% of this theme group
Authors caution that data‑intensive IoT and cloud networks can expose new security vulnerabilities.
Smart city (17) · Internet of Things (6) · Cloud computing (3) · Telecommunications (3)
Opportunities and Challenges of Data-Driven Cybersecurity for Smart Cities
Networks for Future Services in a Smart City: Lessons Learned from the Connected OFCity Challenge 2017
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2985.3 |
| 2023 | 2937.8 |
| 2024 | 2807.5 |
| 2025 | 2413.4 |
Cautions · 0228.2% of this theme group
Studies advise careful assessment of collaborative sensing and automation reliability in vehicular networks.
Intelligent transportation system (14) · Computer network (4) · Computer security (5) · Automation (4)
Deployment and Performance of Infrastructure to Assist Vehicular Collaborative Sensing
Timing and security analysis of VANET-based intelligent transportation systems: (Invited paper)
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1867.9 |
| 2023 | 1793.0 |
| 2024 | 1399.8 |
| 2025 | 682.3 |
Cautions · 0325.9% of this theme group
Research warns that governance, politics, and community participation can hinder smart city adoption.
Smart city (18) · Corporate governance (8) · Politics (4) · Public relations (3)
Aspirations and Realizations: The Smart City of Seattle
Public engagement in smart city development: Lessons from communities in Canada's Smart City Challenge
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 317.2 |
| 2023 | 305.6 |
| 2024 | 183.2 |
| 2025 | 179.6 |
Cautions · 0410.6% of this theme group
Papers highlight safety concerns around V2X privacy and cruise‑control strategies at intersections.
Collision (3) · Intersection (3) · Transport engineering (3) · Cruise control (2)
Impact of V2X privacy strategies on Intersection Collision Avoidance systems
Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory Systems
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 313.3 |
| 2023 | 305.6 |
| 2024 | 228.8 |
| 2025 | 115.9 |
Opportunities · 0120.2% of this theme group
Opportunities focus on integrating security with intelligent transport and advanced traffic management technologies.
Intelligent transportation system (424) · Transport engineering (102) · Computer security (58) · Advanced Traffic Management System (26)
Internet of Vehicles: Sensing-Aided Transportation Information Collection and Diffusion
Smart Transportation: Real-Time Distributed Systems Improving Mobility and Safety
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1292.2 |
| 2023 | 1278.3 |
| 2024 | 1056.8 |
| 2025 | 556.8 |
Opportunities · 0216.7% of this theme group
Works propose holistic dashboards and dynamic models to advance sustainability and governance in urban environments.
Smart city (344) · Sustainability (56) · Architectural engineering (26) · Corporate governance (21)
“Cities go smart!”: A system dynamics-based approach to smart city conceptualization
Smart City Dashboards: Design, Development, and Evaluation
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 849.8 |
| 2023 | 923.7 |
| 2024 | 1071.1 |
| 2025 | 850.8 |
Opportunities · 0316.6% of this theme group
Research explores reinforcement learning and deep‑learning methods for autonomous driving, platooning, and intrusion detection.
Reinforcement learning (82) · Cruise control (32) · Object detection (39) · Platoon (30)
Socially Intelligent Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Automated Vehicle Control in Traffic Scenarios
Deep-Learning-Based Intrusion Detection for Autonomous Vehicle-Following Systems
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 174.8 |
| 2023 | 175.6 |
| 2024 | 101.0 |
| 2025 | 183.3 |
Opportunities · 0414.7% of this theme group
Studies demonstrate predictive models using floating car data and graph networks to alleviate congestion.
Traffic flow (107) · Traffic congestion (105) · Intelligent transportation system (145) · Floating car data (39)
Topological Graph Convolutional Network-Based Urban Traffic Flow and Density Prediction
Assessing the Suitability of Different Machine Learning Approaches for Smart Traffic Mobility
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 125.3 |
| 2023 | 124.0 |
| 2024 | 92.7 |
| 2025 | 130.3 |
Opportunities · 0513.2% of this theme group
Papers present secure, low‑latency IoT architectures that combine cloud and edge computing for smart city services.
Internet of Things (160) · Smart city (195) · Cloud computing (93) · Edge computing (41)
Secure Smart Cities Framework Using IoT and AI
An Intelligent IoT Device for Real-Time Cloud-Based Tracking of the Terms of Service in Smart Cities
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1892.7 |
| 2023 | 1913.2 |
| 2024 | 2074.7 |
| 2025 | 2122.0 |
Opportunities · 069.6% of this theme group
Research highlights novel VANET protocols and security designs to improve vehicle‑to‑vehicle connectivity.
Vehicular ad hoc network (114) · Wireless ad hoc network (39) · Computer network (64) · Vehicular communication systems (21)
Internet of Vehicles: Architecture, Protocols, and Security
Design of Secure and Application-Oriented VANETs
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1117.1 |
| 2023 | 1027.6 |
| 2024 | 734.7 |
| 2025 | 330.4 |
Opportunities · 079.0% of this theme group
Works focus on crowdsourced positioning and trajectory analysis to enhance public transport and navigation.
Urban computing (41) · Point of interest (14) · Public transport (28) · Global Positioning System (30)
Mobile Crowdsourcing for Intelligent Transportation Systems: Real-Time Navigation in Urban Areas
A framework of comparative urban trajectory analysis
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 196.7 |
| 2023 | 189.5 |
| 2024 | 175.2 |
| 2025 | 200.2 |
Orientation shares compared with 25,000 papers in the reference sample.
| Research orientation | This field | Reference sample |
|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough | 34.6% | 26.6% |
| Promising | 32.9% | 37.1% |
| Problem-identifying | 15.9% | 9.7% |
| Descriptive | 10.6% | 17.4% |
| Comparative | 2.8% | 3.9% |
| Cautionary | 2.1% | 4.4% |
| Critical | 1.1% | 0.8% |
Counts and shares refer to the stated research pool. A low count describes how much of that research is recorded here, not the absence of a real-world concern.
| Concern / example paper | Papers | Share | Raised as a problem | Worldwide share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy & surveillanceSecurity and Privacy in Smart City Applications: Challenges and Solutions | 300 | 7.55% | 121 (40.3%) | 5.54% |
| Energy & datacenter footprintEnergy-Efficient Fair Cooperation Fog Computing in Mobile Edge Networks for Smart City | 8 | 0.2% | 0 (0.0%) | 0.17% |
| Hardware, e-waste & supply chainSmart Devices for Smart Cities in India Exploring Security Vulnerabilities of E-Waste Management | 4 | 0.1% | 1 (25.0%) | 0.09% |
| Safety & misuseAdversarial Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Traffic Signal Control Systems with Colluding Vehicles | 2 | 0.05% | 0 (0.0%) | 0.03% |
| Bias & fairnessFairguard: Harness Logic-based Fairness Rules in Smart Cities | 2 | 0.05% | 0 (0.0%) | 0.03% |
| Water use | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Carbon & emissions of compute | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Labour & data work | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.01% |
| Concentration of compute power | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
Institution and researcher rankings use citations to their covered work. Research scope: United States. This may be broader than the company geography.
Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.
24.3% across the displayed hubs
14 companies hiring · $1.5B disclosed funding
Explore companies in San Francisco ↗17.8% across the displayed hubs
8 companies hiring · $1.4B disclosed funding
Explore companies in New York City ↗
11.9% across the displayed hubs
3 companies hiring · $672.3M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Austin ↗11.6% across the displayed hubs
2 companies hiring · $110.7M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Washington, Dc ↗10.1% across the displayed hubs
4 companies hiring · $136.1M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Los Angeles ↗9.8% across the displayed hubs
5 companies hiring · $130.7M disclosed funding
Explore companies in San Diego ↗
8.0% across the displayed hubs
3 companies hiring · $745.3M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Atlanta ↗
6.5% across the displayed hubs
5 companies hiring · $51.4M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Denver ↗Clear definitions for making better comparisons.
It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
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Company ecosystem snapshot: 30 August 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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