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

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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

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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:

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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

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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

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