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Lidar identifies near accidents at Peachtree Corners: Smart City USA
The smart city at Peachtree Corners is all about getting companies and Internet of Things technologies to work together in an integrated fashion.
The participating companies tap into the 5G capabilities of T-Mobile, the information from Bosch cameras is shared and integrated into real-time monitoring screens at the IoT Control Center and the 20 startups downstairs at Curiosity Lab share a tech workshop and working space, all focused on end-to-end approaches to a smart city.
There are other technologies around the lab as well, such as the little two-wheeled robots from Gita.
The robots include a storage area, one idea being that an airline could provide a traveler with the robotic device to assist in carrying luggage.
The novelty is that the robot quickly identifies the person and from then on follows that person without any physical connections. (As the robot followed me at the lab, I sped up and stopped abruptly and the robot did the same).
To explore and test future transportation, Peachtree has self-driving shuttles to transport people around the smart city, including lanes only for autonomous vehicles.
One Beep shuttle I watched stopped as the wind blew a paper bag in front of it. The point of the testing at Peachtree includes the technology to learn exactly what is in front of it as well as all around it.
Some of that environmental awareness and learning involves lidar sensors with major testing by Outster, a publicly traded company headquartered in San Francisco.
Ouster is testing digital lidar sensors at intersections.
“We are leveraging them to understand in real time, exactly all the traffic situation in that intersection, specifically, with a very strong focus not only on the vehicles in the autonomous shuttles but also the vulnerable road users, the pedestrians and cyclists,” Itai Dadon, vice president, smart infrastructure, at Ouster, told me during an extensive tour of the smart city.
To read the complete article, visit IoT World Today.
