Smart-city innovations highlighted at IoT Evolution Expo

Technological innovation to empower smart cities is evolving with various individual components highlighted at the IoT Evolution Expo in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, this week.

These range from technology that monitors air quality to fully digitizing city hall.

While none match the end-to-end capabilities at the smart city in Peachtree Corners, as we extensively covered here, some of the smart city pieces being put together are impressive.

Sade Labs, a Turkey-based company with offices in Miami Beach, highlighted its technology for collision avoidance.

While such technology typically is part of autonomous vehicle development, Sade Labs is aiming its products at IoT applications such as employee and equipment tracking systems.

For example, a small device in an employee’s pocket could signal a nearby moving vehicle to stop as the employee appears about to cross its path.

As a demonstration, Mehmet Ilem, CEO and co-founder of Sade Labs, showed me a miniature moving vehicle on a track. As the vehicle moved around the track, Ilem placed a representative of a person ahead of the vehicle and the vehicle immediately stopped. When he removed the ”person,” the vehicle resumed traveling.

The interesting twist here is that collision avoidance technology is targeted to include employees and vehicles rather than simply vehicle to vehicle.

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