Glasgow has won £24 million in funding in the form of a government grant to create smart cities.

The grant was awarded by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), set up in 2007 to develop and promote innovation led by technology.

The grant will be used to develop better services including application of advanced real time analytics and bid data, allowing for the gathering of information relating to events from traffic incidents and CCTV footage to missing bin collections.

Scott Cain, the TSB's project leader for Future Cities, said: “Glasgow has some quite extreme challenges - it has the lowest life expectancy of any city in the UK for instance - and the hope is that if we bring together energy, transport, public safety and health it will make it more efficient and a better place to live".

Other smart cities are to include Birmingham, Sunderland and London.