"Emerson's Smart Wireless made it possible for the team equipped with wireless devices to cut their on-site time by one-third, enabling them to complete more services in a year's time and proving the value of wireless."
Smart Cities
Think of cities as giant urban machines with lots of different moving parts: streetlights, traffic signals, streets, transportation systems, security systems and more, all managed and coordinated by the municipality. A smart machine is safer, more efficient, less expensive to deploy and maintain and can be proactively maintained. Sound like a better place to live? Wireless sensor networks allow cities to cost-effectively gather more information more often and develop quality-of-life enhancing applications based on that wealth of field data.
Watch Dust Founder and Chief Technologist, Dr. Kris Pister, discuss cities of the future in an episode of The Discovery Channel's Next World.Play video
Reliable, easy to deploy, and built with the priorities of cities and citizens in mind, Streetline Networks is leading the way in the development of intelligent infrastructure solutions for urban areas. The Streetline solution (watch the video) is a complete information system designed specifically for applications in urban resource management. The platform integrates ultra low power sensing with Web-based solutions that optimize the use of city assets, in this case parking spaces.
At the heart of the solution is the SmartMesh-enabled ultra low power vehicle sensor. These pavement sensors work by detecting a disturbance in the magnetic field from a vehicle parked in a space, and will run for more than five years on the equivalent of two AA batteries. Data can hop from sensor to sensor until it makes its way to a gateway, a small box sitting on top of a streetlamp or a traffic-signaling box.
Leading the revolution in relieving congestion on city streets, solutions like Streetline's will have a cascade of positive effects on transportation and the economy and environment.