Smart City Applications
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The trailed and tested modular wireless identity, and reader hardware that underpins the Hive One ID™ is ideal to be used in Smart Cities. The technology is the only identification technology that is suited to identify people through the Hive Distributed Self-Sovereign Identity Model and objects all using the same reader infrastructure.
Smart Cities globally focus on creating efficiencies in city processes but integrating people into the model has been problematic until now. Most Smart Cities use multiple mobile applications in an attempt to integrate people. Still, the statistics show that the adoption rate on these applications is low. People need to load various mobile apps and open these applications as they move through the city.
The application areas below are not comprehensive but aimed at giving the reader an understanding of some of the possibilities.
Smart City People Integration
Integrating people into Smart Cities is a challenge with current technology. The only way to achieve this is to use mobile applications. I order for this to work the user needs to install and open the app before it can be used. The long term adoption rate of application is meagre and tend to drop over time. The Hive One ID™ with the Hive Decentralised Self-Sovereign Identity solution identify users as they move through a city and interact with the user through a single application depending on their location. All interactions are always personalized, relevant and easy to navigate while collecting detail authenticated data about every interaction.
Smart City Internet of Things
Hive One ID™ technology is ideal for rolling out as part of a Smart City. One ID’s can be equipped with multiple sensors, monitoring temperature, vibration, movement and more. The same reader infrastructure can also be used to monitor or track assets and service staff as they move through the city, significantly improving the way services are provided. Understanding the whereabouts of equipment and staff enables the city to respond faster and more effectively. The following are examples:
- Utility infrastructure management and readings;
- Waste management and refuge removal;
- Control of traffic infrastructure;
- Monitoring of policing and security;
- and more.
Smart Buildings
Smart Buildings are green, energy-efficient, and intelligent with advanced automated infrastructure that controls and manages aspects such as lighting and temperature, security, and energy consumption independently or with minimal human intervention. Identifying people with Hive One ID™ enables the integration of people with specific preferences and movement patterns into the building management algorithms. Identifying people also allow security, building automation, HVAC, and office systems to integrate using the same identity for people. In doing this, buildings become smart at a new integrated level not currently possible.
Smart Events & Exhibitions
Hive One ID™ provides a sophisticated end to end solution for managing events and such as expo's, conferences, sports and concerts. The solution streamlines the process and provides the opportunity for sponsors to get improved exposure while personalizing the attendees' experience to another level. The Hive One ID™ linked with our single mobile application provides attendees with location-specific services and individualized communication. Attendees can get information about queues and waiting times in advance, streamlining the flow through the venue.
Smart Parking
Smart parking management reduces frustrations and helps to streamline the flow of traffic, minimizing traffic jams and directing the driver to the closest open parking space. This real-time data will give authorities and traffic management companies a bird's eye view of parking utilization. Hive One ID™ can automate parking management processes enabling an easy to use method throughout a Smart City. Payment for parking is automated, and Hive One ID™ users can enter and exit parking contactless.
Smart Retail
Hive One ID™ play an integral role in Smart Retail with the ability to through the same infrastructure automate several retail functions such as streamlining inventory management, accumulating relevant statistics and implementing a personalized, client-centric retail approach. To personalize the client's shopping experience retailers need data about the client's preferences, behaviour, shopping history and more. The Hive Distributed Self-Sovereign Identity framework enables clients to collect authenticated data as they live life. This data includes updated demographics, retail behaviour and purchase history across all retailer online and in-store. Clients make the relevant data available in real-time as they shop with a smart contract that limits the use and storage of the data but enable the retailer to provide them with the exact service they require with very little additional input from the client.
Smart Community Living
A Smart Community enables and empowers citizens and supports their individual and communal quests for well-being. There are tremendous opportunities to apply technology to assist citizens in this quest and to allow them to transform their communities. Hive One ID™ is ideally suited to provide the foundation for smart living, through the same reader infrastructure, it provides access control and security, monitor children, the elderly and pets to mention a few examples. The same technology can also track and protect assets and infrastructure. Hive One ID™technology is an integral component for building Smart Communities.
Smart Tourism
Smart tourism is an essential component of a smart city. It tourism deals with providing a smart and convenient environment and experience for people visiting a city. Hive One ID™ provides tourists with features such as unique tourists identification that enhance the user experience in airports, transport, hospitality services, convention experience etc. One ID enables tourists to define personal preferences and interests in advance. This information, in conjunction with the tourist location, creates suggestions of attractions that will interest the tourist, creating a memorable personalized experience.