Maidstone, the county town of Kent on the River Medway, is a mid-sized English borough whose smart-city thread is a distinctly practical one: enforcement technology. Its waste-crime team flies off-the-shelf thermal-imaging drones to detect, assess and clear fly-tipping faster and to gather aerial video for prosecutions, part of a wider English pattern, alongside Wolverhampton's drone unit and the national Environment Agency squad, of turning cheap drones into cheap enforcement.

The atlas documents 1 project in Maidstone: 1 still running without a verdict. The entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is official (1 entry) — and links its sources.

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Outcome: 1 ongoing — Evidence: 1 official

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Maidstone, United Kingdom.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/maidstone/ (last verified 2026-07-19). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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