Soofa turns cities into R&D labs with smart city infrastructure.

Your smart city project doesn't need to have a million dollar budget. At Soofa we believe it starts with four bolts. With those bolts in the ground you start evaluating immediately, gathering the public's input and testing the technology. We believe in using the word "pilot" not as simply a phrase to counter risk aversion, rather as a true phase 1 of a larger project; it is a time for objective testing and working together to ensure our technology solves exactly what you need it to.

Soofa is based in Cambridge's innovation hub between MIT and Harvard. Naturally, Cambridge and Boston have been our R&D testing ground since we launched in 2014 out of the MIT Media Lab. We have since added over 120 cities to that list who are using Soofa technology. Please view our Privacy Policy to see how we collect, use and share data from our pedestrian activity monitoring sensors. 

 

Soofa Case Studies

See how cities are using Soofa Signs to amplify city communications, boost wayfinding efforts, and activate their local economies.

Resources

 

White papers

 
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Data-Driven Decision Making Tools for Smart Cities

This paper addresses the benefits of using data to better understand a city and its constituents. The paper shares insights, tools and sources to assess and report on use of public spaces and the health of a local economy. 

 

Public Arts

This paper discusses the transformative power of public art and the relationship of public art to the urban experience: from successful ways public art has been meaningful to communities, to how cities and developers use public art, and opportunities and challenges for public art.

Published June 2018