How Your Connected Car Can Solve Every City's Problem | Susana Sagento | TEDxBrussels

"We have been told that the world’s urban population will double by 2050.
As our cities become larger, they also need to become smarter.
With this rapid growth ahead of us, it would be wonderful if our cities could talk: they could give us real-time status updates on people, vehicles, traffic patterns, pollution, parking spaces, water, power and light.
This talk shows how this reality can become true if the vehicles are the ones connecting everyone and everything."
Susana Sargento is an Associate Professor with “Habillitation” in the University of Aveiro and the Institute of Telecommunications, where she is leading the Network Architectures and Protocols (NAP) group
In March 2012, Susana has co-founded a vehicular networking company, Veniam (www.veniam.com), which builds a seamless low-cost vehicle-based internet infrastructure. Veniam has now a head count of 40, and has now headquarters in Silicon Valley, Singapore and Portugal.
In academia she has been involved in several national, European, and Transatlantic projects, such as the Smart Cities infrastructure. The Smart Cities infrastructure in Porto is composed by the vehicular network, denoted as CityNet, which provides Internet access to users in the buses since September 2014, and a sensing infrastructure, denoted as UrbanSense, which provides a low-cost and large range communication support all over the city.
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