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Tech Explained: Geospatial Intelligence
You may not realise it, but geospatial intelligence is being used all around us for a wide variety of applications.
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Food & Drink
Swedish startup develops a smart refrigerator to reduce food waste
Karma’s new storage system aims to streamline the process of helping consumers purchase food items before they go to waste.
Telecommunications
An ethical, repairable and recyclable phone
The Fairphone 3 uses a modular design to cut down on waste and enable the phone to be easier to both recycle and repair.
Retail
Smart grocery cart doubles as a personal shopper
Veeve, founded by former Amazon and Google employees, want to bring the Amazon Go concept to the level of shopping carts.
Telecommunications
BoringPhone helps users disconnect
A new phone is unable to connect to the internet or download apps — helping users detox from digital overload.
Computing & Tech
Smart benches charge phones and provide security
Startup Include builds smart, IoT-connected street benches that can be linked into smart city infrastructure.
Retail
Hypermarket tracks products from farm to store with blockchain
Carrefour is using blockchain digital tracking technology to provide customers with more information about products.
Sport & Fitness
AI-driven wearable helps swimmers improve performance
Triton 2 uses artificial intelligence to analyse a swimmer’s performance and compare it to data from thousands of other swimmers.
Computing & Tech
Researchers use sound waves to learn human movement
The sound wave research could have major implications for medical alarms, especially for senior citizens living alone.
Telecommunications
AR glasses create 3D experience directly from smartphones
Rokid Vision glasses are different from other models because they include processing power.
Telecommunications
Startup predicts weather using cell phone signals
ClimaCell claims its forecasts are 60 percent more accurate than most others.
Telecommunications
Clara Foods creates eggs without chickens
An American startup has developed a yeast-based protein to target the growing demand for plant-based egg substitutes.
Work & Lifestyle
Australian startup brings Wi-Fi to remote farms
Agrinet’s system allows farmers to make calls and access the internet anywhere on their land.
Telecommunications
Startup develops universal, identity-based security platform
Auth0 offers an alternative to building in-house solutions for single passwords, multi-factor authentication and other security steps.
Mobility & Transport
Finnish startup enables mass-scale wireless IoT connectivity
Wirepas aims for better use of IoT with tech that works with any radio hardware and frequency.
Telecommunications
Secure data platform replaces passwords with smartphones
MobileIron’s zero-trust platform removes passwords and turns employees’ mobile devices into their ID and secure access to data.
Work & Lifestyle
Spanish startup aims to make better bots
Hubtype helps companies use AI and chatbots to create a “human experiences” through chatbots and other messaging services.
Government & Defence
Startup developing space-based quantum security network
As quantum computing threatens to make today’s encryption obsolete, SpeQtral aims to develop the next generation of secure communication networks.
Telecommunications
A decentralised search engine with crypto rewards
Presearch is hoping to change how people search the web with an open-source, block-chain based alternative to Google.
Advertising & Marketing
Platform uses AI to write better job descriptions
The software studies hiring data and uses augmented writing to help HR staff write the best job descriptions to attract the right staff.