2 posts tagged with "Smart city"

RFID monitoring on garbage collection trucks identifies every bin automatically: a passive UHF tag on the container is powered and read by an antenna near the lifting mechanism, and the onboard computer confirms the emptying with the arm sensors. Each collection event is enriched with timestamp and GPS coordinates and sent over 4G/5G to Mative's back-office, where it supports Pay-As-You-Throw billing, route optimization and SLA monitoring.

In Istanbul, ENLIL's vertical wind turbines placed next to the roads turn the breeze produced by passing traffic into clean energy: a single turbine topped with a solar panel can produce enough electricity to power two Turkish households for a day. The turbines also carry IoT sensors that track temperature, humidity, carbon footprint and earthquake activity, and pass the data on to the city's authorities and environmental scientists.