Dublin's Docklands became a district-wide smart-city testbed in 2017 under the Smart Docklands programme, hosting a neutral-host 5G network — a city/telecom partnership among the first of its kind worldwide — alongside LoRa-based rainfall sensors and 50 low-cost gully monitors developed with local firms Danalto and mSemicon to flag flood risk. An annual €50,000 fund continues to back community-led pilots in the district.

The atlas documents 2 projects in Dublin, the earliest dating to 2011: 2 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 Dublin

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Outcome: 2 ongoing — Evidence: 1 independent · 1 official

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• 🇩🇪 Frankfurt am Main: Cosma21 / [ui!] UrbanPulse Urban Data Platform Two LoRaWAN sensor efforts: Dublin piloted flood sensors inside a 5G testbed from 2017; Frankfurt's Cosma21 pools citywide data since 2022.
• 🇪🇸 Santander: SmartSantander Santander's 2010-13 testbed proved city-wide IoT sensing first; Dublin narrowed the same idea to one 5G-ready district from 2017.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Dublin, Ireland.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/dublin/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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