Category: Smart Cities

  • The Intersection of Community Building & Future Mobility at the Culdesac

    The Intersection of Community Building & Future Mobility at the Culdesac

    The defining characteristic of Culdesac Tempe is that it is a car-free neighborhood. Instead of housing cars (parking lots), Culdesac Tempe’s focus is on community and mobility for its residents. Mobility starts with the creation of a walkable neighborhood but includes the integration of technologies and services that allow people to live without owning a…

  • Wireless Charging of the Autonomous Vehicle & More #sdc2022

    Wireless Charging of the Autonomous Vehicle & More #sdc2022

    [Added 12/16/22 – Ryan Marinelli of InductEV provides an example of inductive charging in the ice and snow, which led to an informative online discussion. Referenced in that discussion is a January 2017 ViodiTV interview with Qualcomm about charging technology] Automated charging without the need for human intervention is a must-have for the eventual implementation…

  • Coordinating Robots Across Town and Across Country

    Coordinating Robots Across Town and Across Country

    Almost a year ago, Bern Grush warned that cities weren’t ready for sidewalk robots. This was reinforced a few months ago in a post on a neighborhood social media site where some pretty funny comments were made about an unexpected little robot plying the streets. In this neighborhood, like many, the sidewalk infrastructure is decrepit…

  • Broadband Built Block-by-Block by Blockchain – Part 1 – Helium & LoRaWAN

    If broadband adds thousands of dollars to a home’s value, then why not unlock that value to help pay for the last-mile network? A form of this question was first posed in this Viodi View article, Property Assessed Broadband – A Bottoms Up Way to Build Community & Broadband. As shown in that article, this…

  • Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence as Simple as Drag and Drop #CES2021

    Blaize AI Studio brings drag and drop functionality to the creation of AI & ML Apps cutting development time from months to days.

  • C-Band 5G’s Threat to Aviation

    C-Band 5G’s Threat to Aviation

    Note: The above explainer video from Alex Scerri was added on 12/2/20 Is the impeccable safety record of aviation threatened by the use of C-Band frequencies (specifically 3.7-3.98 GHz in the U.S.) for 5G? Yes, would be the conclusion one could draw from RTCA’s November 30th, 2020 webinar, Interference Risk to Radar Altimeters from Planned…