Smart City Stuttgart

Smart City" refers to a strategic and ongoing process that aims to make living together in a city sustainable and efficient in the future. Smart infrastructures offer us added value, make daily life easier in a variety of ways and ultimately improve the quality of life.

The Digital Monitor is a new offering from the City of Stuttgart and provides a simple overview of the progress and innovations in the digital transformation. It presents various projects that show how digital technologies and innovative solutions are being used successfully in key areas such as administration, education, mobility and environmental protection. The Digital Monitor is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to find out about digital developments in Stuttgart.

Stuttgart is facing major challenges: Climate change, the mobility transition, demographic change and the further development of a service-oriented administration. The master plan describes how the city intends to tackle these issues with innovation, cooperation and responsibility.

An important basis for the smart city is data and its availability. An important basis for the smart city is data and its availability. Through the targeted use of data, cities and regions can better recognize the needs of their citizens and thus make them more sustainable, efficient and liveable:

• The  Open Data Portal (opens in a new tab) has been providing access to various data sets relating to the state capital since October 2023.
• The Smart City  Dashboard LIVE|STR (opens in a new tab) is a platform that bundles various data from the entire city and presents it in a user-friendly way.

Stuttgart ranks third in the Smart City Index 2025 published by Bitkom, making it one of the best major cities in Germany in terms of digitalization and placing it in the top 3 for the first time.

The Smart City Index is a Bitkom ranking of the state of digitalization in major German cities. The cities are assessed in five categories: administration, energy and environment, IT and communication, mobility, society and education. Cities that want to shape the future must make living and working in their cities intelligent, connected and easy to use for their citizens, visitors, businesses and their own administration. They have to be smart.

The results of the Smart City Index 2025 are available online:  Bitkom Smart City Index (opens in a new tab)

The ultimate goal of a smart city is to improve people's lives and promote sustainable development at the same time. The networking of infrastructures such as transport, energy supply, communication and security plays a decisive role in this. This goal is achieved with the use of state-of-the-art technologies.