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Taking a City's Pulse With Moveable Sensors

The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is opening a new approach to the study of the built environment. Digital technologies are radically changing the way we understand, design, and ultimately live cities. This is having an impact at different scales – from the single building to the scale of the metropolis. On the occasion of the MIT R&D conference, Umberto Fugiglando will address these issues from a critical point of view through projects by the Senseable City Laboratory, a research initiative at MIT. In particular, he will show research advances and use cases of sparse and crowdsourced sensing technologies for addressing issues in air quality measurements, infrastructure monitoring and wastewater sampling.

2019 MIT Research and Development Conference

Startup Showcase

CATALOG
The world will generate 160 zettabytes of data in 2025. That’s more bytes than there are stars in the observable universe. Conventional storage media like flash-drives and hard-drives do not have the longevity, data density, or cost efficiency to meet the global demand. CATALOG is building the world’s first DNA-based platform for massive digital data storage.

Interpretable AI
The company is bringing interpretability to machine learning and artificial intelligence and was co-founded by Professor Dimitris Bertsimas of MIT Sloan School of Management’s Operations Research Center (ORC).

Osaro
Advanced imaging AI for robotics that can identify objects others cannot.

2019 MIT Europe Conference in Vienna