// CITY_ASSESSMENT
How smart is Brasilia?
Brasilia scores 57% against the DC20 smart city framework in 2026 — ranked #84 of 213 cities assessed, with every finding traceable to a public source.
Smart score
57%
Rank
#84 / 213
Criteria present
39 / 82
Evidence coverage
67.1%
Brasilia's smart city score by area
11 present · 7 partial · 3 absent
5 present · 1 partial · 7 absent · 3 not assessed
6 present · 3 partial · 3 absent · 5 not assessed
15 present · 1 partial · 2 absent · 2 not assessed
2 present · 4 partial · 0 absent · 2 not assessed
Where Brasilia is strong
- ▸Digital Government / e-Services
- ▸Citizen Engagement & Participation
- ▸Interoperability & Open Standards
- ▸Pervasive IoT Sensing
- ▸Air-Quality & Climate Monitoring
Where the gaps are
- ▸Integrated Multimodal Mobility (MaaS)
- ▸Smart Traffic & Adaptive Signals
- ▸Data Governance, Privacy & Ethics
- ▸Innovation Ecosystem
- ▸Digital Twin
Evidence highlights
Open Data by Default · Official open data portal
Brasilia (Distrito Federal) has an official open data portal at dados.df.gov.br, which serves as a central catalog for open data.
https://dados.df.gov.br/Open Data by Default · Open APIs / programmatic access
The Distrito Federal open data portal provides programmatic access to data, with a dedicated API documentation page and datasets filterable by API format.
https://dados.df.gov.br/doc/api/Open Data by Default · High-value dataset coverage
The Distrito Federal open data portal includes high-value datasets such as transport data (semob) and legislative proposals (proposicoes), and a related geospatial atlas (caesb.df.gov.br) suggests coverage of geospatial data.
https://dados.df.gov.br/dataset/semobPervasive IoT Sensing · Connected assets / smart lighting
Brasilia monitors its public transport bus fleet in real-time, indicating connected municipal assets. The water utility (CAESB) also uses telemetry to read water consumption, suggesting connected utility assets.
https://www.agenciabrasilia.df.gov.br/2019/10/28/caesb-agora-le-por-telemetria-o-consumo-de-agua/About this assessment
Brasilia was assessed against the 82 criteria of the DC20 smart city framework on 2026-06-26 by AI agents gathering evidence from official public sources. Each criterion is marked present, partial or absent, and every finding links to where it was found — see how smart cities are measured. Scores refresh continuously as cities publish new evidence.