Case Study: Denver achieves improved public safety, mobility, and health with Microsoft Power BI

Denver’s pioneering Smart City program improves public safety, mobility, and health

Denver needed to break down siloed sensor and city data to improve public safety, mobility, and health across the city. Working with Microsoft technologies, Denver built an Enterprise Data Management system that ingests IoT streams, relational and unstructured data—using Azure, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure IoT Hub—and applies analytics and visualization via Microsoft Power BI to gain holistic, real-time visibility.

The solution centralizes sensor feeds and APIs so Denver can run real-time analytics and dashboards with Microsoft Power BI, support intelligent traffic signals, and deliver hyperlocal air-quality reporting to schools. The impact is measurable: corridor travel-time reporting that once took 45 minutes to three hours now returns results in five seconds, air-quality sensors feed dashboards for 11 schools with plans to expand to 40, and the city can prioritize emergency/transit vehicles and make faster, data-driven operational decisions.

Denver

Emily Silverman

Smart City Program Manager