Smart People

BlindSquare is the World’s Most Popular accessible GPS-app developed for the blind and visually impaired. It describes the environment, announces points of interest and street intersections as you travel. In conjunction with free, third-party navigation apps it is a powerful solution providing most of the information blind and visually impaired people need to travel independently. Your safety is our highest priority. BlindSquare is self-voicing, announcing points of interest, intersections and user-defined points through a dedicated speech synthesizer.

Accessibility map of sidewalks, crossings and PoIs. Route4U's technology create accessibility maps in a fast and cost efficient way. Web and mobile applications help municipalities to communicate about accessibility in a positive context and give the highest possible support for wheelchair users. Route4U's automated technology keeps the map up-to-date.

Dosecast is the most flexible and easy-to-use medication management app available for Apple, Android, and Amazon devices. With Dosecast, you’ll remember to take the right medication, the right way, at the right time – every time!

Do you take medication, birth control pills or supplements? PillReminder Pro will send you push alerts reminding you to take your pills. Just enter in the name of your pill, dosage, frequency, and what time(s) of day. Then continue with your busy schedule, and PillReminder Pro will alert you when it is time to take your pill(s). Features: Reminds you with PUSH alerts when to take your pills, Great for medication, birth control pills and supplements, Tracks pill names, dosage and frequency, Keeps track of your pills. Reminding yourself to take pills and supplements can be difficult.

The Hogeweyk (part of Hogewey care centre. A weyk or wijk being a group of houses, similar to a village) is a specially designed village with 23 houses for 152 dementia-suffering seniors. The elderly all need nursing home facilities and live in houses differentiated by lifestyle. Hogeweyk offers 7 different lifestyles: Goois (upper class), homey, Christian, artisan, Indonesian and cultural. The residents manage their own households together with a constant team of staff members. Washing, cooking and so on is done every day in all of the houses.

The purpose of the NI Mentor program is to introduce the students, from an early age, to smart and programmable tools which can improve digital literacy through game like methods, and to make them appreciate the natural sciences, and introduce them to the basics of engineering thinking, so later they can choose scientific and engineering careers. We already face challenges need to be solved that would, according to estimations, need 26% more engineers and natural scientists in 2020.

Pollution, lack of energy carriers, climate change, civilization diseases – we are ahead of great challenges if we want to leave a liveable environment for our children and the next generations. It is very important to produce power in an eco- and climate-friendly way, not only to reduce the energy consumption. To do that the common thinking of humanity is needed. Therefor we implemented the Liveable Future Park in Fót, near Budapest. The Liveable Future Park is a little energy and research island where we can show the real potential of alternative energy and the latest technology.

They crowdsourced a complete city-wide Internet of Things data network with the people of Amsterdam in 6 weeks using a new technology named LoraWAN™. They are launching their global campaign to repeat this in every city in the world. 

Thingful is a search engine for the Internet of Things, providing a unique geographical index of connected objects around the world, including energy, radiation, weather, and air quality devices as well as seismographs, iBeacons, ships, aircraft and even animal trackers.

Code for All is an international network of organizations who believe that digital technology opens new channels for citizens to more meaningfully engage in the public sphere and have a positive impact on their communities.