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    Smart City

    Bellevue is a smart city, with a clean, high-quality environment and excellent, reliable infrastructure that includes high-tech connectivity. The Bellevue Smart/Planning for a Smarter City" strategic plan is available.

    The Information Technology Department is partnering with other city departments and partners outside the city to help achieve the City Council’s vision of a smart city, with services continually shifting from reactive to proactive and predictive. Bellevue’s Smart City Strategy focuses on the following:

    • Our residents live in a safe, clean city that promotes healthy living
    • Infrastructure is ample and in excellent condition, including roads, rails, high-speed data, reliable electricity, and clean water
    • A state-of-the-art, intelligent transportation system moves people through the city with a minimum of wait times and frustration
    • We have superb infrastructure to support growing businesses and desirable residential opportunities
    • Our institutes of higher learning are connected physically and digitally

    Elements of a Smart City

    Smart cities leverage information and communications technology to enhance livability, sustainability and resiliency.

    Smart Buildings

    • Smart Buildings: Develop more “Smart” buildings that are connected, fault-detecting and self-healing
    • Reduce Waste: Aggressively reduce water and energy use through sophisticated analytics and improved monitoring
    • Safer Buildings: Improve response by Integrating building security with 911 emergency response
    • Accomplishments

      2022
      Clean Building Incentive Program helps large buildings in Bellevue reduce energy use
      2021
      Updated Environmental Stewardship Performance Dashboard
      2018
      Green Building Incentives encourage building projects to reduced environmental impact

    Smart Connectivity

    Our role is both Provider and Facilitator of services.

    • Expanded WiFi - Increase internet access for all with expanded public Wi-Fi
    • Fiber - Enhance digital economy with high speed, secure, resilient networks
    • Broadband - Ease access to existing city infrastructure to facilitate public-private partnerships
    • Smart Networks - Increase efficiencies with integrated Smart City communications networks
    • Accomplishments

      2020
      City prepares for 5G infrastructure with code updates for small cell, design standards, and a streetlight map
      2017 - 2019
      Expanded BellevueConnect public Wi-Fi to parks, community centers and select King County Housing Authority properties
      2017
      Completed regional fiber optic ring connecting governments, schools and medical centers
      2016 - 2017
      Completed high speed connectivity network for traffic signal system

    Smart Energy

    Focus on reducing outages and improving energy conservation

    • Optimized Grid:Reduce system outages through optimized grid system operation
    • Conservation and Renewables:Increase energy conservation and renewables
    • Advanced Metering:Improve conservation and customer service through advanced metering
    • Accomplishments

      2019 - present
      PSE Green Direct Program allows customers to purchase dedicated, local, renewable energy resources
      2018 - 2019
      PSE gas and electric meter upgrades complete Bellevue
      2014 - 2015
      Solarize Bellevue campaigns to install solar arrays for businesses and homes

    Smart Mobility

    • Connected Vehicles - Increase safety and efficiency with real-time performance monitoring of signal system and connected vehicle integration
    • Smart Streetlights - Increase energy savings by expanding LED street-lighting and piloting parking availability management
    • Informed Travelers - Better informed motorists with enhanced traveler information
    • Transit Integration - Improve transit speed and reliability with next generation transit signal prioritization
    • Ped Bike Safety - Improve bicyclist and pedestrian safety through automated monitoring and measuring
    • Accomplishments

      2021
      Completed Vision Zero Dashboard
      2021
      Began using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to support crash scene investigations
      2021
      Deployed winter response fleet automatic vehicle location for improved operations
      2020
      Live video traffic map launched and 100% camera coverage at signalized intersections
      2019
      Curbside management pilot
      2018
      Completed Smart Mobility Plan

    Smart Public Safety

    Continue improving technology enabling regional and national communication and emergency management

    • Integrated Systems - Optimized response time and care for patients through Integrating systems. Includes coordination across communication centers and electronic patient records
    • Predictive Analysis - Predictive and preventive crime analysis
    • Resilient Communications - Police and fire are supporting a national effort to create the FirstNet communication network using a dedicated radio spectrum that supports broadband communications.
    • Regional Partnerships - Our first responders are coordinating with communication centers and neighboring agencies on integrated dispatch and unified radio systems to increase response efficiency.
    • Situational Awareness - Application of new emergency management software that integrates all command centers for better management of resources.
    • Accomplishments

      2022
      Police Transparency and Accountability Dashboards shares information to strengthen trust between Bellevue Police and the community
      2021
      Fire Department begins using FirstNet wireless network
      2018
      Text to 911 available in King County, part of statewide Next Gen 911 upgrade

    Smart Water

    Proactively improve water reliability and conservation

    • Advanced Metering - Improve customer service and conservation with advanced metering
    • Proactive Detection - Proactively detect leaks
    • Improved Reliability: Improved reliability, capacity, and water quality through predictive operations
    • Accomplishments

      2020
      Smart Water Meter installations begin
      2020
      SCADA Master Plan approved and equipment replacements begin
      2018
      Smart Water Meter vendor selected

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