About Us

Smart Urban Management (SUM) is a unique consultancy specialising in providing smart master-planning, regeneration, economic development and transport advice to both public and private bodies.

We are the only specialist place-making and smart cities consultancy currently operating in the UK and have a number of strategic partnerships in place allowing us to offer an unmatched service to our clients.
We are pioneers in the use of big data analytics in a place-making and urban development context. 
We work with all open and public data sets and have a unique partnership with Vodafone which enables us to use their aggregated and anonymised data to help local authorities and private organisations plan for the future.
Cellular data allows us to unearth previously unavailable insights on: pedestrian and vehicle movement patterns, visitor behaviour patterns, community development and wide-scale economic development among others.