9 awesome innovations coming to the very first smart city in the US

Columbus, Ohio is prepping to become a smart city.

The Buckeye State capital recently won the Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge, awarding it $40 million to be spent in whatever way to "become the country's first city to fully integrate innovative technologies - self-driving cars, connected vehicles, and smart sensors - into their transportation network."

Columbus will also get $10 million from Vulcan to incorporate an electric vehicle infrastructure.

Sidewalk Labs, a division run under Google's parent company Alphabet that works with cities to transform them into ultra-high tech municipalities, will play a role in Columbus' development.

We spoke with Rory McGuiness, deputy director the department of development for Columbus, to see what innovations we can expect to see in the city. Scroll down for a closer look.