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🇩🇪 Heidelberg

Smart City Model Project (MRN)

Since 2021, Heidelberg has been the Rhine-Neckar region's consortium partner in the federal Modellprojekte Smart Cities programme, running an open-source urban data platform through its Digital-Agentur. First applications include event-visitor counting and the public Klima-Kompass, a real-time environmental dashboard other municipalities in the region can also connect to.

Live 📅 since 2021

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified

📡 Data & IoTOpen dataCitizen participationSensors & IoT
Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: Open data · Urban data platform (UDP) · Adaptive traffic signals

Sources

↗ Digitale Stadt Heidelberg (authority)Official page by the city or public authority behind the project.
↗ Digital-Agentur Heidelberg (partner)Page of the city-owned company delivering the Smart City work.
↗ Smart City Dialog – Urbane Datenplattformen (reference)Independent coverage confirming the Rhine-Neckar consortium partnership since 2021 and the platform's first applications (event-visitor counting, climate and citizen dashboards).

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart City Model Project (MRN)” — Heidelberg, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/heidelberg-smart-city-model/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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