You can get that right off a 5G tower. I sound like a Qtard but it’s real. It’s actually kind of frightening and I’d think unconstitutional. I guess leave your phone at home.
Ubicquia also plans to help communities meet their smart-cities goals as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, Aaron said. Many cities already have deployed Ubicell technology, which has long supported smart-lighting functionality and Wi-Fi connectivity. Earlier this year, Ubicquia announced the capability to “sniff” MAC address of connected devices to provide cities and partners with valuable information about traffic near a given Ubicell.
“This is really solving problems that cities are having when they do construction, and they want to know about people movement that’s driven by the construction,” Aaron said. “This also good for mobile operators as they want to understand the best place to put a small cell, based on people, activity, congestion and dwell time. And this is something that is just available on every single Ubicell and can be activated in seconds just in software.”
This capability is not just valuable in densely populated urban environments, according to Aaron.
“We’re deploying in a small little city in Ohio. Every weekend in the summer, they have concerts,” he said. “They’re like, ‘Wow, we want to track how many people are at the concerts—how many people are coming in, how long are they staying?’ It’s amazing.
“We have another city that has farmers’ markets. They’re saying, ‘We never knew exactly how many people are coming to the farmers’ markets.’ We literally activate [the foot-traffic monitoring functionality], and we give them a report every weekend about how many people are coming and how long they are staying.”
In addition, the microphones and the processing power on the new Ubicells will provide cities with a cost-effective alternative to expensive gunshot-detection systems, Aaron said.
“We did some work for the Brazilian Military Police and built a software library that detects 365 guns,” he said. “Because we have these devices on the streetlights, we can triangulate and tell you the exact direction of the audio, do an analysis of the audio with the Qualcomm processor, and, because of the cameras, within a millisecond [of the gunshot] we can start capturing video or images.”
By integrating so many capabilities into its platform, Ubicquia hopes to make many Internet-of-Things (IoT) visions become a practical reality, Aaron said.
“Cities have been in this smart-city pilot purgatory for 10 years,” Aaron said. “We’re breaking that mold, and we’re creating products … that can scale across the city.”
I don’t want a smart city.
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