
DATA STRATEGY
An efficient data strategy for your smart city or smart region
Data is the backbone of modern cities and is key to making smart solutions efficient and sustainable. A well-thought-out data strategy helps municipalities to collect important data for process optimization, but also to structure and use growing amounts of data in a targeted manner. From traffic planning to energy efficiency and citizen participation: data-based decisions create tangible added value for cities and their residents.
We support you in developing customized data frameworks that integrate existing and new data sources.
Our services range from analyzing and evaluating the database to designing governance standards and implementing the technical aspects. We place particular emphasis on data protection, transparency and scalability to future-proof your community.
Benefit from our expertise in creating smart infrastructures, making processes more efficient and driving innovation. Together, we can make your city more liveable and sustainable – with a clear and efficient data strategy.
Topic overview
Why a data strategy is essential
Data is the new foundation of modern cities and regions. A clear data strategy helps municipalities to integrate and manage a wide range of data sources and to efficiently structure and use the growing amount of data. It creates the basis for data-based decisions, improves resource planning and promotes innovations in areas such as waste disposal, water management, transport, mobility, logistics, energy and citizen participation. A sustainable data strategy also ensures compliance with data protection standards, provides easy-to-use data management and creates transparency for citizens.


Our services
- Data analysis:
identification and evaluation of existing data sources and determination of potential and gaps for targeted data use - Development of a data framework:
design and development of a flexible architecture that enables structured and efficient data use - Data integration:
Consolidation and harmonization of various data sources according to smart city standards (e.g. FIWARE Smart Data Model, CKAN, DCAT-AP) to obtain consistent and usable information - Data protection and governance:
Establishing standards and guidelines that ensure compliance with legal requirements such as the GDPR - Data visualization:
Creating tools and dashboards that make data understandable and usable for decision-makers and citizens
Case study: Development of a data strategy for a MPSC community
- Requirement
- Support in creating a customized data strategy for implementing smart city use cases in the MPSC context
- Solutions
- Training and awareness raising on open source and urban data platforms
- Deriving a content structure for the strategy
- Creating content, e.g. on vision, objectives, data protection, technical basis, data catalog
- Preparation for use cases (link to “implementation of use cases”)
- Deriving an implementation roadmap
- Your benefits
- Sparring with technical experts
- Support in project management
- Data strategy as a proposal for resolution for political committees and decision-makers
- Preparation of tenders
- Transfer and synergies between different municipalities

Benefits for your smart city or smart region
- Structuring your requirements: customized data strategy for your organization, needs and use cases
- Data protection and governance: compliance with all legal requirements
- Efficient data use: maximizing the potential of your urban data by using established standards
- Flexibility and scalability: solutions that grow with your requirements
- Learning from implementation experts: Strategies developed together with our application experts that are not only theoretical, but derived from practical experience and can be implemented



A CLEAR STRATEGY FOR YOUR DATA
EDAG looks forward to working with you to develop an individual data strategy and to future-proof your community through data-based decision-making. Let us work together to make your city more efficient and more livable.
Find out more about our consulting services and training courses to optimally develop your data infrastructure and prepare your employees for new technologies.