1001 Smart Cities
🇩🇪 Frankfurt am Main

Smart Water Management

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Four sub-projects fitted Frankfurt's groundwater stations, soils and streams with LoRaWAN sensors, giving city departments live data on water levels, rainfall and quality — scientifically evaluated by ISOE and Hochschule Fresenius.

Live 📅 since 2023
Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence📊 Independentgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?The strongest source is an independent non-academic evaluation: an audit office, a government or EU review, or an NGO. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byCity of Frankfurt am Main
Scale🏙️ City-wide
FundingState of Hesse (Starke Heimat Hessen, 90%)
🌱 EnvironmentLoRaWANWaterSensors & IoT

Sources

↗ City of Frankfurt – Smartes Wassermanagement (operator)Official Frankfurt Smart City project page describing the four sub-projects and LoRaWAN network (German).
↗ ISOE – Scientific support for the project (evaluation)Institute for Social-Ecological Research, scientific evaluator; gives Oct 2023–May 2025 timeframe.
↗ Smarte Region Hessen – Best Practice (reference)Entry in the State of Hesse's best-practice database (German).

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Compare this project

🇩🇪 Smart City FFM Strategy · Frankfurt am Main Water is one of the nine fields of Frankfurt's Smart City FFM strategy — this is its live LoRaWAN sensor network on the ground. 🇩🇪 Digital City-Centre Management (DIM) · Bad Nauheim The big-city take on the LoRaWAN platform Bad Nauheim pioneered under the same Starke Heimat Hessen programme in 2022. 🇺🇸 FloodNet street-level flood sensors · New York City Two LoRaWAN water networks: New York's FloodNet tracks live street-flood depth; Frankfurt watches groundwater, streams and rainfall.

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📟 A Reading Is Not a Decision📻 LoRaWAN guide🏙️ Frankfurt am Main city profile🌱 Environment projects📖 District metering area (DMA)📖 LoRaWAN📖 Non-revenue water (NRW)
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart Water Management” — Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/frankfurt-smart-water/ (last verified 2026-07-18). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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