В мире - 143 проекта «умных городов» Наиболее удачный пример- город Сонгдо (Южная Корея). Большинство умных городов расположены в Европе и Северной Америке. Примеры: Барселона, Вена, Копенгаген.

Where the future of cities is taking shape… and residents, businesses, and visitors are contributing to the growing ecosystem.

Сингапур выводит на новый уровень понятие «умный город»

The future of Smart Cities VITAL is an ambitious R&D programme to develop a prototype application platform that will revolutionise realtime, location­based provision of goods and services in future smart cities, by integrating and interacting with a multitude of different Internet of Things data sources and systems.

It is an interesting phenomenon in every industry: Companies cluster in specific cities or countries.
The big global clusters of:
Financial firms: New York and London.
Pharmaceutical firms: Switzerland and New Jersey.
Automotive companies: Japan, Michigan, and Germany.
Anything web-related: California
Which are the emerging company clusters of the Internet of Things?