How APIs Are Driving Smart Cities
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are running your smart city. The bicycle rental system that suggests the best route. The city-wide FixIt app that can be used to send photographic proof of that painful pothole. The sensor at that dang traffic light that leads to that unhappy notice a week later. Your city’s 311 system. Nearly everything your town council is enacting in an effort to become a smarter, more technologically savvy city involves APIs working from behind the scenes.