Smart-city procurement opens new opportunities across local services and tourism
A new smart-city contract shows how municipal digital projects across Greece are converging on mobility, accessibility and services for residents and visitors.
A new smart-city contract shows how municipal digital projects across Greece are converging on mobility, accessibility and services for residents and visitors.
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On 30th December 2025, the Municipality of Nea Smyrni (ΔΗΜΟΣ ΝΕΑΣ ΣΜΥΡΝΗΣ) published a contract notice for a wide-ranging digital transformation project covering smart parking, accessibility, waste and energy management and digital platforms for community services, highlighting how Greek cities are now turning to smart technologies to manage daily life and support local economies.
The digital transformation project in Nea Smyrni sets out a compact but ambitious brief. The contract involves developing a suite of smart-city initiatives for the municipality, explicitly including smart parking, accessibility systems, waste management solutions, energy management and platforms for community services.
Taken together, these elements cover several core layers of an urban digital strategy:
The notice does not yet spell out technical choices – for example, whether sensors, mobile apps, web portals or back-office upgrades will carry most of the work. Even at this early stage, though, it is clear that the municipality is seeking an integrated package that touches transport, public space, environmental management and citizen-facing services.
That blend mirrors the direction of many other Greek municipal procurements published over 2025 and early 2026, suggesting that Nea Smyrni is positioning itself within a national wave of smart-city investment rather than pursuing a standalone pilot.
Accessibility and social support are prominent in the Nea Smyrni brief, and they are becoming hallmarks of Greek smart-city projects more broadly. In December 2025, the Municipality of Syros - Ermoupoli set out seven initiatives in its digital transformation programme, ranging from accessibility improvements and systems for managing vulnerable groups to electronic payments, telemedicine, digitised library catalogues, cultural heritage preservation and electronic billing.
Earlier in November 2025, the Municipality of Nea Ionia in Attica launched a similar package of initiatives that combined smart pedestrian crossings and lighting systems with air-quality measurement, cultural heritage digitisation, electronic budget consultation, cybersecurity upgrades and a centralised data management platform. Here, physical accessibility is joined with transparency tools and cultural services, broadening the concept of digital inclusion.
In the Municipality of Gortyna, a notice from November 2025 for digital transformation works goes further, specifying a Smart City Guide alongside a Digital Platform for Vulnerable Groups, an Electronic Payment Management System and Electronic Invoicing. This mix of wayfinding, social support and streamlined payments underlines how community services are being redefined in digital terms.
Several municipalities are foregrounding accessibility for people with disabilities. In August 2025, the Municipality of Minoa Pediadas launched a project to develop smart applications and services for a Smart City, with a particular focus on sustainable mobility and accessibility for people with disabilities. That focus sits close to Nea Smyrni’s own reference to accessibility systems.
Health services are also being drawn into the municipal digital layer. In July 2025, the Municipality of Ilioupoli tendered for a package of digital transformation actions that includes smart pedestrian crossings, smart waste bins, energy management systems, an electronic payment system, telemedicine services and electronic invoicing. Telemedicine reappears in the Syros - Ermoupoli programme, indicating that remote healthcare, at least for some services, is now considered part of the municipal digital toolkit.
Some notices explicitly reference visitors and local businesses. The Municipality of Iasmos describes its December 2025 project for designing, supplying and installing applications and technology as aiming to improve urban management and service quality for “residents, visitors, and businesses”. That phrasing makes explicit what is implicit in many of these contracts: municipal digital infrastructure is expected to underpin both everyday services and broader local economic activity.
Beyond core utilities, many Greek municipalities are using digital tenders to strengthen their cultural offer and visitor-facing services. In August 2025, the Municipality of Xylokastro-Evrostini published a notice for digital transformation initiatives that combine smart pedestrian crossings and a cemetery management system with electronic ticketing for events, cybersecurity measures and public performance indicators. Electronic ticketing sits squarely in the cultural and tourism arena, while performance indicators hint at a desire to monitor how well new services work.
In December 2025, the Municipality of Sparta set out a wide-ranging brief in its digital transformation project, seeking applications and technologies for smart pedestrian crossings, a city guide, platforms for managing kindergartens and vulnerable groups, urban space management, cemetery management and an electronic budget consultation system. The city guide, in particular, points to a growing interest in curated digital information for both residents and visitors.
Similar tools appear elsewhere. The Municipality of Hersonissos, in a notice from December 2025 for digital transformation in Hersonissos, includes smart pedestrian crossings and energy management systems alongside a municipal business guide, cemetery management, kindergarten management platforms and a centralised data management system. A municipal business guide can function as a directory for shops and services, with clear links to local commerce and hospitality.
Cultural and knowledge assets are another focus. The Syros - Ermoupoli programme mentioned above includes digitising library catalogues and preserving cultural heritage, embedding cultural collections and records within the city’s digital infrastructure. In December 2025, the Municipality of Kastoria followed a similar path in its digital transformation tender, which combines smart parking, waste and traffic management, cemetery management and cyber protection with digitisation of cultural heritage and a unified management platform.
Also in December 2025, the Municipality of Lavreotiki put out a notice for digital transformation works that aims to develop modern services and smart applications to enhance mobility, accessibility and digital identity. The package includes smart public transport stops, smart pedestrian crossings, traffic office organisation, cemetery management systems, risk management systems, library digitisation and a centralised data management platform. Here, again, library digitisation and smart mobility infrastructure sit side by side.
Taken together, these projects point to a model in which city guides, business directories, electronic ticketing, cultural heritage platforms and even library systems are part of the same digital ecosystem as traffic sensors and waste bins. Nea Smyrni’s commitment to platforms for community services places it squarely in that trend. The notice does not specify which community services will be prioritised, but the wider pattern across Greece suggests that culture, events, social care and local commerce are all candidates to sit on top of shared smart-city infrastructure.
Alongside tourism and community services, the Nea Smyrni contract keeps basic municipal functions firmly in view. Waste management solutions and energy management systems form two of its five headline components, reflecting a wider shift towards using data and automation to handle everyday services more efficiently.
The Kastoria tender already cited illustrates how these elements combine in practice. Its scope spans smart parking, waste management, traffic management, cemetery management and cultural heritage digitisation, all supported by cyber protection measures and a unified management platform. Such platforms allow data from different systems to be shared and analysed, rather than leaving each service operating in isolation.
Mobility infrastructure is another recurring theme. In October 2025, the Municipality of Pavlou Mela launched a notice for digital transformation initiatives that include smart bus stops, smart pedestrian crossings, traffic management solutions, energy management systems, smart lighting, digital platforms for vulnerable groups and infrastructure protection against cyber-attacks. Here, street-level equipment and back-office systems are specified together, showing how transport, public safety and social policy intersect.
The Municipality of Lavreotiki’s project similarly links transport stops, traffic office organisation and risk management systems with cemetery management and library digitisation, again underpinned by a centralised data management platform. In Ierapetra, a contract for developing a Smart City aims to enhance sustainable mobility, energy efficiency and high-quality services, using smart pedestrian crossings, energy management systems and a unified data management platform.
Cybersecurity is becoming a common thread. The Xylokastro-Evrostini notice includes cybersecurity measures; Nea Ionia calls for cybersecurity upgrades; Kastoria mentions cyber protection; and Pavlou Mela specifies infrastructure protection against cyber-attacks. Meanwhile, the Municipality of Georgiou Karaiskaki frames its December 2025 procurement for digital transformation software as acquiring applications and technologies to enhance urban management and services in Greek cities, with an explicit emphasis on efficiency and innovation through digital solutions and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.
Although the Nea Smyrni notice does not detail its data architecture or security components, its focus on smart parking, accessibility, waste, energy and community platforms fits this pattern of integrated, data-driven services. Experience from other Greek tenders suggests that solutions will need to knit together field devices, management platforms and citizen interfaces in a way that can later accommodate new services.
For now, the Nea Smyrni contract notice offers only a high-level view of the municipality’s ambitions. Detailed technical specifications and implementation plans will determine how far the project can reshape local services for residents and visitors.
Observers of Greece’s emerging smart-city landscape will be watching several aspects in particular:
Across Greece, municipal procurement is steadily building a shared digital layer that links streets, buildings, cultural assets and online services. The Nea Smyrni project is one more sign that smart parking, accessibility tools, waste and energy management and community platforms are no longer experimental add-ons but core components of how cities organise services for the people who live in, work in and visit them.
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