Smart Economy

Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners is a publicly funded living lab designed to provide a real world test environment to advance next generation intelligent mobility and smart city technology.

Located within a 500 acre technology park where 7500 people work and more than 1000 people live, Curiosity Lab provides unique infrastructure and a supportive government to facilitate innovation.

Early stage startups, universities and established companies are all welcome to join their innovation ecosystem.

Île-de-France Smart Services is a service platform developed by the Ile-de-France Region with and for Ile-de-France residents.

The idea of Ile-de-France Smart Services is simple: gather the large quantities of data produced by the Region and its partners, both public and private, and use this material to design and offer new services to make the daily life of Ile-de-France residents easier and more attractive and sustainable.

To ensure that these services meet the needs of users, the Region has chosen a co-construction approach.

Food is a fundamental requirement of life on this planet. However, the basic structure of today’s linear “take-make-dispose” food system is unsustainable—economically, socially and environmentally. In Guelph-Wellington, one in six families experience food insecurity, and the cost of healthy food keeps increasing. Meanwhile, between a third and a half of the food we produce is thrown away. Much of that ends up in landfill, where it creates the greenhouse gases that drive climate change.

iDrone Services Limited is a Zambian company created in 2016. It uses drones to monitor and analyse farms as well as taking decisions to improve the yields. Moreover, the company has a specific initiative which is the “Idrone4ag youth project”, whose purpose is to form rural youth to the use of drones. The objective is on the long term to qualified farm jobs and avoid rural exodus.

Africa Goes Digital Inc. is an industry association representing selected African enterprises that are providing digital services in the sectors of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, natural resource management, infrastructure, mining and in the domains of surveying, engineering, inspection, disaster risk management, humanitarian work and research. Members leverage the power of digital technologies such as unmanned aerial systems, satellite imagery or geographical information systems to deliver quality services and high-end products.

Wecyclers is a for-profit social enterprise that promotes environmental sustainability, socioeconomic development, and community health by providing convenient recycling services in densely populated urban neighborhoods. They give households a chance to generate value from their waste and provide a reliable supply of raw material to the local recycling industry.

Zenvus Smartfarm is an intelligent electronics sensor which when inserted in a farm soil collects pertinent data like humidity, temperature, pH, moisture, nutrients etc and wirelessly transmits the data to a cloud server where advanced computational models help to make sense of what is happening on the farm. Powered with solar with a battery capacity that can last for days, a farmer interacts with the hardware data via our free Zenvus Web App which is both desktop- and mobile-friendly.

BAZAFARM is a solar powered IoT device that is put in the farm to measure water level, soil temperature and the fertility of the soil in real time and the farmer can access the data on their mobile phone, tablet or PC via Internet and make decisions accordingly. The device helps farmers achieve high yields of crops and also provides data of what the soil needs for the best growing environment of crops.

COVID-19 forced businesses across Ontario to close their doors this spring and many are looking for new and creative ways to attract business. With Future Proof, Digital Main Street aims to expand their support and create lasting change for small businesses across Ontario through three initiatives called Transformation Teams, the Digital Main Street Lab and the Community Collaboration Project.

GreenStock’s digital platform enables developers to easily locate and reuse building materials and cut construction waste.

GreenStock’s cloud-based platform streamlines logistics for the reuse of building materials. Organisations can use the platform internally to map available materials in existing buildings and leftovers from building projects in a database for reuse in future construction projects. This will reduce carbon emissions as well as overall building costs.