Chattanooga Recognized for Transformative Smart Cities Projects

Smart Cities Connect brings together community leaders from around the country, to share and learn the ways in which civic technologies and infrastructure are having, and can have, an impact […]
Air quality, community education efforts earn Chattanooga the 2023 Smart 50 Award

Chattanooga, TN, May, 17, 2023 — A multi-community effort including Chattanooga and stakeholders in four other U.S. cities earned a 2023 Smart 50 Award for developing infrastructure to provide neighborhood-level […]
EPB and partners will provide home internet to low-income students at no cost

By Mary Helen Montgomery Hamilton County will become the first community in the nation to offer no-charge high-speed internet to every family with a child on free or reduced lunch. […]
Citizens come first in Chattanooga’s smart city efforts

Mary Helen Montgomery This summer, a detective approached Austin Harris, a computer scientist at UTC, looking for help on a murder case. The detective knew that the center where Harris […]
UNC’s Morehead-Cain Scholars study Smart City innovation in Chattanooga

Six Morehead-Cain Scholars from UNC Chapel Hill are working with The Enterprise Center this summer to understand the impact of Smart City technologies on life in Chattanooga. The students are […]
Chattanooga research collaborative named in Top 50 smart city projects, recognizing ethical data use

Mary Helen Montgomery As many urban areas adopt “smart city” initiatives, Chattanooga is doing so with a slightly different approach — and now, the city is being recognized for its […]
Howard and Hixson receive Mozilla grant for biomedical science research

Nikki Sneed Students at Hixson High School and The Howard School have been awarded a Mozilla Open Science Grant to develop biomedical science projects. The international grant was also awarded […]
Chattanooga joins national conversation on social impact of smart cities

By Andrew Rodgers Once again I came away from the annual Smart Cities Connect Conference and US Ignite Gigabit Applications Summit energized and optimistic about the future of cities. The […]
UTC Hosts National Machine Learning Conference in the Innovation District

Eugenia Payne Getting the right data at the right time can mean the difference between life and death in the emergency room. Sharing how this is done—and continuing to perfect […]
ORNL and EPB Partner to Test The Role of Sensors in Smart Grid Innovation

Made possible by the Chattanooga Gig, EPB is providing the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) with an ideal testbed for smart grid research. With support […]