The US town of Spencer is working with smart city technology provider Cimcon on the initiative to improve driver safety, meet state environmental guidelines and reduce costs.
The US town of Spencer in Massachusetts is planning to integrate road condition monitoring with its recent LED street light conversion project.
Town officials are working with smart city technology provider Cimcon to undertake the initiative to improve driver safety, meet state environmental guidelines, and reduce costs associated with ineffective road monitoring and maintenance.
Studying the way people move and interact can play an important role in understanding how an infection might spread during a pandemic and the types of practices, such as social distancing, that could help. A unique project developed by researchers at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in collaboration with the City of West Palm Beach will create new opportunities to tackle the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by enabling cutting-edge computational epidemiology.
The work builds on the “Mobility Intelligence Project” (MIP), an existing collaboration between the two partners. MIP is a first-of-its-kind mobility sensing, analytics, and recommendation system developed by FAU’s Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) and the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Originally designed to improve the quality of life for people who live, work and play in downtown West Palm Beach, MIP is being retooled to enable the simulation of virus transmission based on realistic, contextualized models – models that rely on how people actually move and interact within the city.
FIU researchers are working to solve the problems of tomorrow. Specifically, the future of smart city infrastructures and autonomous vehicles, vehicles that can drive themselves.
Two researchers from the College of Engineering & Computing—M. Hadi Amini, an assistant professor in the School of Computing & Information Sciences, and Alireza Rahimi, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering—are working on ways to revolutionize urban infrastructures, transportation networks and how cities work.
COVID-19 continues to shut down the largest cities in the world, and while the healthcare industry, first responders, governments, banks, businesses, and entire populations continue to grapple with flattening the curve, technology companies are innovating new solutions.
There are vast amounts of data generated within cities today, and even more will be generated in the future as the IoT world continues to evolve and grow. Quantela, a digital technology solutions company, has identified effective use of data, informing the public, and empowering the field teams as a one of the key tools to combat the spread of the virus.
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I have heard a lot of historical comparisons made to the current COVID-19 pandemic, but none of them feel quite right. The Spanish Flu epidemic of 100 years ago is probably the closest analogy from an epidemiological standpoint, but the world was much a much different place then.
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