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. We were very excited to see some workshop participants (i.e., smart citizens!!) came to the…
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 city air sensing initiative. There will be more to be announced very soon! The starter kit…
by Steve @ Singapore – I was blown away by the Singapore Smart Cities Hackathon 2017. As the technology sponsor of Singapore’s CXA hackathon 2017, I had an opportunity to fly to Singapore, spend 24 hours with the participants, and see many innovative smart city applications created from scratch. The high quality IoT work done and…
At SensorUp we always challenge ourselves to build innovative IoT solutions to empower the masses. One of such projects is called CloudUAV. This platform will enable mission planning and compliance, and data sharing for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in research applications. It is co-developed by Dr. McDermid’s research group at the University of Calgary and SensorUp,…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE By Coral Bliss Taylor July 12, 2017 Calgary, A.B. – Wildfires in British Columbia are affecting air quality indicators in Alberta quite dramatically, as some St. Albert residents recently learned. Last Saturday, 25 St. Albertans met at a workshop to assemble and connect their own PM 2.5, or fine particulate,…
We saw great adoptions of the OGC SensorThings API around the world in the past 12 months. SensorThings API has been applied in a very wide range of applications, such as smart cities, next generation first responder, environmental monitoring, drones, smart energy, etc. While SensorUp is developing innovative solutions based on the SensorThings API, we…
We’re pleased to pass on the news that St. Albert, Alberta, has become SensorUp’s first community partner in the Smart Citizens for Smart Cities Canadian Tour. St. Albert will have between 10 to 25 volunteers deploying as many air quality monitoring devices. Not to mention, they are now officially recruiting volunteers to take on the monitoring devices.…
By Coral Bliss Taylor June 1, 2017 Calgary, A.B. – Alberta Data Partnerships and SensorUp have teamed up to make Alberta’s environmental data easier to access. The two are creating an Environmental Data Exchange Node (EDEN) that will combine disparate environmental monitoring data throughout the province, in a single portal. The idea is…
Following our announcement last month the our Smart Cities program is expanding Canada-wide, we’ve had fantastic interest from both municipalities and individuals across the country. We’re finalizing details with many municipalities, and looking forward to announcing our partners as soon as the details are finished. Stay tuned to hear the full list in the next…
Singapore’s Code::XtremeApps:: (CXA) hackathon is going to use SensorUp’s SensorThings Cloud Platform to build innovative Smart Cities applications with the OGC SensorThings API standard. SensorUp is proud to be the only technology sponsor of the CXA hackathon, organized by Info-communications Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA). It shows SensorUp’s commitment to build an open and vibrant IoT…