🇸🇪 Sweden
This city uses IoT to detect open windows and clogged gutters
Battery-powered sensors are placed in select places and connected to the city's network to provide timely information
An app that incentivises recycling and sustainable choices
It directly rewards users with money or coupons when they recycle everyday waste items.
Mental health ambulance is like a therapy room on wheels
During its first year on the road, the Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PAM) ambulance in Stockholm responded to over 1,000 individuals in need of help.
This kiosk machine pays out for old batteries
The Battery Refund machine is a reverse vending machine for waste consumer batteries that can automate the collection of old batteries and reward people for their effort.
Interactive billboards in Stockholm help homeless find shelter
Most homeless people in the city know where there are shelters, but during emergencies - they may don't know where the new ones will be.
Stockholm power plant burning H&M clothes instead of fossil fuels
A power station northwest of the Swedish capital is to become fossil fuel-free by 2020 with a little help from moldy H&M clothes.