Smart Park Manager: How DataMiner CityOps creates sustainable and connected urban parks

Dean Muzicka

Unifying smart lighting, waste, environmental, and security systems into one intelligent operational layer

Managing a modern city park requires more than just people on the ground; it demands real-time visibility, automation, and intelligence. With growing sustainability goals and citizen expectations, urban authorities must ensure their green spaces are efficient, safe, and enjoyable, all while reducing energy use and operational overhead. That is where Smart Park Manager, by DataMiner CityOps, redefines park management. It delivers an integrated module as a part of CityOps, a platform that brings every connected asset, such as lights, bins, cameras, and sensors, together in one unified view.

Cities face increasing pressure to meet environmental targets while keeping parks attractive and operationally efficient. Traditional management methods relying on manual reporting and disconnected systems limit visibility and responsiveness.

Smart Park Manager – DataMiner CityOps

The Smart Park Manager is built on DataMiner’s open, vendor-agnostic integration framework, enabling interoperability between any type of device or system, from IoT sensors to AI-enabled cameras.

USE CASE DETAILS

When an operator opens the Park Manager app, everything begins with the Parks Overview. At a glance, they can see every connected asset, including bins, lights, cameras, and sensors, all updating live on a single dashboard.

Proactive awareness

Color-coded alerts instantly highlight issues by severity, guiding the operator’s focus toward what matters most. Alongside these notifications, key performance metrics summarize the park’s overall efficiency and uptime.

Interactive map and maintenance integration

The interactive map geocodes every park zone, asset, and sensor. Operators can zoom in to view real-time data or assign jobs instantly. On the right, maintenance workflows are automatically triggered through the DataMiner CityOps Planned Maintenance module, ensuring that each task reaches the right team with minimal delay.

Smart lighting

The Lights Overview page gives insight into energy consumption across hundreds of lampposts. Operators can monitor brightness levels, power usage, and operational status, making energy optimization intuitive and measurable.

Intelligent Waste Management

The Bins page aggregates all waste metrics such as total weight, fill levels, and per-zone trends. This data directly feeds into route optimization algorithms managed by the CityOps Waste Management module, reducing emissions and collection costs.

Environmental Monitoring

The Sensors page provides live readings for air quality, weather, noise, and water levels. By grouping data by sensor type and park, operators gain a clear picture of local environmental health and trends over time.

Security and surveillance

The Security view centralizes camera feeds, uptime statistics, and AI-driven detection. Operators can quickly address incidents, ensuring public safety and maintaining system integrity.

Scalable configuration

New assets, from bins to lights, can be onboarded instantly through the Configuration interface, making the entire system modular, scalable, and future-proof.

Conclusion

Smart Park Manager enables municipalities to operate cleaner, safer, and more sustainable parks through data-driven precision. The solution can reduce energy consumption through intelligent lighting control and lower waste collection mileage by optimizing bin monitoring. It enhances environmental visibility, providing valuable insights that support urban sustainability policies. Predictive maintenance helps minimize service interruptions, while proactive insights improve visitor safety and overall satisfaction.

Through DataMiner’s open architecture, Smart Park Manager is ready to scale from a single city park to a nationwide network of smart green spaces, driving forward the vision of truly data-driven, sustainable cities.