Chattanooga's smart-city story starts with its public utility: in 2008 EPB built a citywide fiber-optic backbone to automate its power grid, then repurposed the same network to make Chattanooga the first US city with community-wide gigabit internet in 2010. Fifteen years on, an independent university study credits the combined fiber and smart-grid systems with billions in community benefit and hundreds of millions of outage-minutes prevented — infrastructure that paid for itself twice.

The atlas documents 2 projects in Chattanooga, the earliest dating to 2008: 1 with a documented success, 1 still running without a verdict. Every entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is independent (1 entry) — and links its sources.

All 2 projects in Chattanooga

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Outcome: 1 succeeded · 1 ongoing — Evidence: 1 independent · 1 official

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Chattanooga, United States.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/chattanooga/ (last verified 2026-08-27). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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