Bellevue is a smart city, with a clean, high-quality environment and excellent, reliable infrastructure that includes high-tech connectivity. The Bellevue Smart/Planning for a Smarter City" strategic plan is available.
The Information Technology Department is partnering with other city departments and partners outside the city to help achieve the City Council’s vision of a smart city, with services continually shifting from reactive to proactive and predictive. Bellevue’s Smart City Strategy focuses on the following:
- Our residents live in a safe, clean city that promotes healthy living
- Infrastructure is ample and in excellent condition, including roads, rails, high-speed data, reliable electricity, and clean water
- A state-of-the-art, intelligent transportation system moves people through the city with a minimum of wait times and frustration
- We have superb infrastructure to support growing businesses and desirable residential opportunities
- Our institutes of higher learning are connected physically and digitally
Elements of a Smart City
Smart cities leverage information and communications technology to enhance livability, sustainability and resiliency.
Smart Buildings
- Smart Buildings: Develop more “Smart” buildings that are connected, fault-detecting and self-healing
- Reduce Waste: Aggressively reduce water and energy use through sophisticated analytics and improved monitoring
- Safer Buildings: Improve response by Integrating building security with 911 emergency response
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Accomplishments
- 2022
- Clean Building Incentive Program helps large buildings in Bellevue reduce energy use
- 2021
- Updated Environmental Stewardship Performance Dashboard
- 2018
- Green Building Incentives encourage building projects to reduced environmental impact
Smart Connectivity
Our role is both Provider and Facilitator of services.
- Expanded WiFi - Increase internet access for all with expanded public Wi-Fi
- Fiber - Enhance digital economy with high speed, secure, resilient networks
- Broadband - Ease access to existing city infrastructure to facilitate public-private partnerships
- Smart Networks - Increase efficiencies with integrated Smart City communications networks
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Accomplishments
- 2020
- City prepares for 5G infrastructure with code updates for small cell, design standards, and a streetlight map
- 2017 - 2019
- Expanded BellevueConnect public Wi-Fi to parks, community centers and select King County Housing Authority properties
- 2017
- Completed regional fiber optic ring connecting governments, schools and medical centers
- 2016 - 2017
- Completed high speed connectivity network for traffic signal system
Smart Energy
Focus on reducing outages and improving energy conservation
- Optimized Grid:Reduce system outages through optimized grid system operation
- Conservation and Renewables:Increase energy conservation and renewables
- Advanced Metering:Improve conservation and customer service through advanced metering
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Accomplishments
- 2019 - present
- PSE Green Direct Program allows customers to purchase dedicated, local, renewable energy resources
- 2018 - 2019
- PSE gas and electric meter upgrades complete Bellevue
- 2014 - 2015
- Solarize Bellevue campaigns to install solar arrays for businesses and homes
Smart Mobility
- Connected Vehicles - Increase safety and efficiency with real-time performance monitoring of signal system and connected vehicle integration
- Smart Streetlights - Increase energy savings by expanding LED street-lighting and piloting parking availability management
- Informed Travelers - Better informed motorists with enhanced traveler information
- Transit Integration - Improve transit speed and reliability with next generation transit signal prioritization
- Ped Bike Safety - Improve bicyclist and pedestrian safety through automated monitoring and measuring
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Accomplishments
- 2021
- Completed Vision Zero Dashboard
- 2021
- Began using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to support crash scene investigations
- 2021
- Deployed winter response fleet automatic vehicle location for improved operations
- 2020
- Live video traffic map launched and 100% camera coverage at signalized intersections
- 2019
- Curbside management pilot
- 2018
- Completed Smart Mobility Plan
Smart Public Safety
Continue improving technology enabling regional and national communication and emergency management
- Integrated Systems - Optimized response time and care for patients through Integrating systems. Includes coordination across communication centers and electronic patient records
- Predictive Analysis - Predictive and preventive crime analysis
- Resilient Communications - Police and fire are supporting a national effort to create the FirstNet communication network using a dedicated radio spectrum that supports broadband communications.
- Regional Partnerships - Our first responders are coordinating with communication centers and neighboring agencies on integrated dispatch and unified radio systems to increase response efficiency.
- Situational Awareness - Application of new emergency management software that integrates all command centers for better management of resources.
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Accomplishments
- 2022
- Police Transparency and Accountability Dashboards shares information to strengthen trust between Bellevue Police and the community
- 2021
- Fire Department begins using FirstNet wireless network
- 2018
- Text to 911 available in King County, part of statewide Next Gen 911 upgrade
Smart Water
Proactively improve water reliability and conservation
- Advanced Metering - Improve customer service and conservation with advanced metering
- Proactive Detection - Proactively detect leaks
- Improved Reliability: Improved reliability, capacity, and water quality through predictive operations
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Accomplishments
- 2020
- Smart Water Meter installations begin
- 2020
- SCADA Master Plan approved and equipment replacements begin
- 2018
- Smart Water Meter vendor selected