As cities grow, traffic congestion becomes impossible to escape. Commuters become impatient while stuck in traffic wondering where the accident has occurred, how far you are from it, and is there an alternate route. Expanding roads or making alternate routes … Read More
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Visualizing Vancouver Water Quality Stations Data
Clean drinking water is a huge concern for every country, as it can pose serious health concerns such as gastrointestinal, reproductive, and neurological problems. World Health Organization (WHO) reported that drinking contaminated water causes around 3.4 million deaths each year. … Read More
Health Risks Associated With Air Pollution
Smart city refers to the term as placing different sensors around the city in order collect data that can later be used to manage resources efficiently. Ultimately the goal is to allow the city to create a clean and sustainable … Read More
Gaining insights from Calgary Bike Path and Air Quality Sensor Data
Many cities are hearing complaints from cycling groups that there is a need for safer roads and bike paths. In order to gain insights on how many citizens are using bike paths, many cities, such as the City of Calgary, … Read More
SensorUp demonstrated interoperable UAV mission and data management at CANARIE National Summit 2017 (Nov. 14-15)
We were invited to showcase our work in the Innovation Alley at CANARIE National Summit 2017 held in Ottawa. Each year CANARIE holds a conference that allows leaders in digital research infrastructure to discuss topics that display opportunities and challenges … Read More
SensorUp Smart City Starter Kit expanded to Winnipeg
We are very excited to announce the City of Winnipeg benames our latest client, adopting Sensor Smart Cities Starter Kit. On August 29th, 10 Winnipeg citizens joined the Smart Citizens Workshop at the city hall and made their own sensors. … Read More
SensorUp leading interoperable IoT tasking standard at OGC Technical Committee September ’17 meeting
During the OGC Technical Committee Fall ’17 meeting (Sep 11~15 ’17), SensorUp led a group of Internet of Things experts to make interoperable IoT tasking a reality. The meeting was held at Ordnance Survey HQ in Southampton, UK. More than … Read More
Blockchain, the Internet of Things, and Smart Cities – from a IoT Cloud Platform perspective
You must have heard blockchain. If not, I am sure you’ve heard of Bitcoin, which is one of the blockchain protocols/platforms. However few people understand blockchain, fewer have real-world experiences using blockchain to build systems, and even fewer know how … Read More
Smart City Starter Kit expanding to St. Albert, Winnipeg, Hay River and Kluane Lake
Five Canadian cities/communities use SensorUp Smart City Starter Kit! In addition to Calgary (Oct ’17), St. Albert (online on July 8th ’17), Winnipeg (Aug ’17), Hay River (Aug ’17) and Kluane Lake (online on July 17th ’17) joins the smart … Read More
Save the Date – Nov 7th ’17 – Smart Cities Banff workshop, part of the Cyber Summit
By Steve Liang – Save the date! SensorUp is organizing the first Smart Cities Banff Workshop on November 7th 2017. The workshop will be part of the Cyber Summit 2017 conference and the location is the world-class Banff Centre. We … Read More