Projects
People and Mobility Patterns
Problem: Urban planners have limited awareness of how pedestrians, visitors and commuters move around within a city and selected areas. This lack of understanding results in services that don’t match people’s expectations, suboptimal citizen engagement and experiences. Questions to be answered: How many people are visiting in a particular area? How
Parking availability for electric vehicles and disabled parking spots
Problem #1: Drivers with disabilities may voluntarily limit their mobility to certain areas because they are not sure if they can park their car near where they need to go. Problem #2: Drivers with electric vehicles may leave those cars at home and drive their gasoline powered vehicles instead because
Localized Air Quality and Environmental Monitoring
Problem: Air quality varies from location to location, even within blocks of each other. People who are very sensitive to air quality may be affected negatively, as they go from one area to another. The current air quality monitoring system, provided by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, was
Real time tracking and monitoring of mobile assets
Problem: Inability to track equipment and assets that move from location to location. This results in lost assets, as well as inability to productively deploy assets to where they are most needed in real time. Solution tested: Roambee Asset tracking sensors and beacons, Location monitoring dashboard Questions to be answered:
Optimized waste collection
Problem: Waste bins are over filling, or waste collectors are coming on days when the trash bins are still empty. This results in inefficient collection of trash and unnecessary driving (and vehicle emissions. Solution being tested: Waste bin sensors; Waste bin collection analytics Questions to be answered: Are we collecting
Multi-Connectivity Network
Problem #1: There are multiple IoT and smart city connectivity technologies such as Wi-Fi, LoRaWAN, SigFox, NB-IoT, Helium and other proprietary like Fybr-Link. These are still maturing, and there is no one size fits all connectivity strategy that will work for all use cases. Problem #2: There exists a “digital divide” within San