Smart City Mississauga has a community based approach with its Living Labs. These labs are located around the Business Improvement Areas, and Downtown. These neighbourhoods provide opportunities for trying out new technologies in a real world setting. This allows the public to have a view on the projects and demystify technology. It also gives the city an opportunity to test new technologies and help prepare the city for the future through small scale testing prior to implementing at a large scale.
The kinds of projects that these Living Labs will support range from outdoor screens and smart benches, extended public wifi, 5G and other cellular technologies, smart intersections, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for planning developments and cultural activities, and many more.
Mississauga currently has five Living Labs: Malton, Port Credit, Downtown, Clarkson, Streetsville.