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I'm rich brown i'm here at the scene that smarts apartment in downtown Louisville Kentucky we operate this space in conjunction with the city of Louisville baby being to explore what smart city might mean to residents living here so we have people from the city here today to show off some of their early smart city experiments to hopefully give you a better idea of what this means well I came in contact with the government in a hackathon they wanted to use the API they have or junks it out and make it an elixir enable skill so you can ask the alexis kuehl when is the John set up in your area it will ask you back the address for your area right and then it will tell you that information that you need Alexa ask city services about my junk set out Dave sure tell me your address my address is 29 10 Dartmouth Avenue Kentucky the junk set out will begin in your area on December 9 2016 and will go on till December 11 2016 so this project that we're showing today is a integration between Louisville Metro government air quality data to a third party service called ifft that then plugs into your Philip Hugh bulb so it will show the air quality of the area so basically the hue Bob will change color based off of how good or moderate or hazardous the air quality is in your area and I'm skill I built is the mayor of Louisville newsfeed and what it does is it hooks into an XML feed that the city provided of the mayor's like daily news briefings basically Alexa give me my flash briefing for today here's your flash briefing from me your Greg Fischer's office in Louisville Kentucky now the smart city concept is still in its very early stages and cities around the world are experimenting with how to bring data and residents together in a way that makes city services run more efficiently what you've seen here today is just the beginning and we're excited to see how Louisville and other cities pushes concept forward