Sunimplant: an avant-garde hemp building

The Sunimplant project participated in the latest edition of the Solar Decathlon, which was held for the first time in Africa. The international competition, which takes place every two years, challenges teams including students to develop highly efficient and innovative buildings that run solely on solar energy. 

Sunimplant aims to be truly sustainable and therefore not only uses technology to address higher energy efficiency requirements and climate emergency demands, but also considers the health of habitats using remediation knowledge. 

SImplicity

Users could  download the Simplicity application and receive updates, city news, information about municipal services, emergency alerts, and more direct to their smartphones.

The Simplicity app is described as a “city in your phone” where residents and visitors can access critical city updates, emergency alerts, outages, road closures, city events, and more. The app is currently used by more than 100 cities, including New York City, Miami, the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago suburbs. Cleveland Denver, and other major US cities are launching the app in the upcoming months.

Shanghai digital twin

With over 26 million residents, Shanghai has the highest population of any city in China, and is the third most populous in the world. And Beijing-based digital twin specialists 51World have succeeded in creating a complete virtual clone of the city in Unreal Engine—all 3,750 square kilometers of it.

City Brain

The Hangzhou City Brain system is a smart city platform aiming to improve urban management through the use of big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, among other cutting-edge technologies. It is becoming a new infrastructure for improving the city governance capacity of Hangzhou.

The system connects data from all circles of society and departments in Hangzhou, providing more intelligent and convenient services for companies and residents.

Budapest Solar Map

The Budapest Solar Map of the Municipality of Budapest and the Hungarian Solar Solar Association developed by the Budapest Solar PV Association.

The map is based on the real estate registry map database (building- building maps, floor plans, parcel numbers) which the Municipality of Budapest uses for the The Municipality of Budapest receives updated data from Lechner Nonprofit Kft. every six months. The building floor plans show the status of the buildings in 2021, but no errors or omissions in the construction of the buildings have been reported to the competent authorities.

Bladeless wind turbine

Aeromine Technologies has developed a ground-breaking bladeless wind energy solution that can be linked with existing solar energy systems and building electrical systems, allowing commercial property owners to meet the growing demand for on-site renewable energy.

Aeromine stands out with its particularly considerate of the environment. It doesn't make any sound, hurt or kill birds with its "motionless turbines." The system captures and amplifies the wind from each building using aerodynamics akin to racing car airfoils.

Software Defined Vehicles

Hyundai Motor Group, the owner of the Kia and Hyundai brands, announced this morning a new strategic direction called Software Defined Vehicle (SDV). The company is developing a brand new operating system for a completely rethought logic of OTA (Over-the-air) connected cars, and is preparing to have 20 million cars connected to its central system, Connected Car Services (CCS), by 2025.

Smart hub

Three Hungarian companies, PLATIO Solar, Rollin and Kuube, have developed a unique urban solution: a micro-mobility station with green energy and smart features. The three products create a smart urban point that can reform urban transport, not only making it sustainable and green, but also providing a community experience for users. The unique feature of the service is that it does all this locally, using solar energy generated by paving stones.

Gumibitumen

In line with the principle of reuse and recycling, MOL and the University of Pannon (Veszprém) have developed a new type of chemically stabilised rubber bitumen as a new type of road construction binder through years of research and development.

The product is of significant value to the national economy, as it is an environmentally friendly way of recycling used tyres in a value-creating way.
The main benefits of rubber bitumen are:

self-flying air taxi

California’s Wisk Aero claims that it has developed the first self-flying, fully electric, 4-seat air taxi in the world. This is its 6th generation air taxi and it is reportedly “designed to meet and exceed rigorous commercial safety standards, making it one of the safest systems in aviation,” according to Wisk Aero.

Here are some specs: