Rubicon Technologies, a digital marketplace for waste and recycling solutions, has entered a three-year smart city partnership with the City of Atlanta, Georgia, to help enhance its residential waste and recycling services.

The City of Atlanta has a population of 498,715 and prioritizes its smart city initiatives around five core pillars, which include multi-mode transport, public safety, the environment, city operations efficiency, and citizen and business engagement.

Rubicon's smart city software will enable Atlanta's Department of Public Works to digitize its operations, with a particular emphasis on optimizing routes, tracking exceptions in the field, improving routing for bulky waste pickup drivers, and street sweeping. The technology will also help the city streamline waste and recycling collection, track material and tonnage on bulky trash routes, and reduce missed pickups and unnecessary go-backs.

Analyst QuickTake: Rubicon Technologies is making a sustained effort to broaden the reach of its smart city software, with the goal of increasing subscription revenues to make up over 50% of its total revenue by 2025. The company rolled out RubiconSmartCity in more than 55 cities across the US and extended it to 11 more cities in March 2023.