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Is it legal to use a Wi-Fi sniffer to count people?
Privacy & Location Technology How Wi-Fi sniffers count crowds by listening to your phone, why the law has no idea what to do about them, and what that means for everyone walking past There is a small grey box, roughly the size of a hardcover novel, bolted to a
CityEconomy AI: What Every Neighborhood Spends in the US
The neighborhood spending capture and leakage map that nobody had until now. Modeling and mapping US consumer spending patterns down to the Census Block Group level. Every retailer, restaurateur, and city planner asks the same question — how much do the people in this neighborhood actually spend, and on what? The
Deploying Ground Truthing Sensors in Parks and Trails
A practical guide to site selection and sample sizing for training AI visitation models in urban spaces As urban planners and parks departments increasingly turn to artificial intelligence and big data to understand community mobility, a fundamental truth remains: the digital world must be anchored in physical reality. At CityData.
Somerset County’s Geospatial AI Revolution with CityData
Quantifying Community Vibrancy: How Somerset County Leverages CityEconomy and CityEvents AI for Economic Sovereignty The New Frontier of Municipal Intelligence and Economic Resilience The historical management of municipal economic development has long been constrained by a reliance on static indicators and qualitative anecdotes. For decades, county administrators and economic planners