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Technology Earns Smart 50 Award
Researchers from the University of Vermont (UVM) and the University of Tennessee have won a Smart 50 Award for their development of "cognitive" ground-penetrating radar.
Credit: Brian Jenkins
Researchers from the University of Vermont (UVM) and the University of Tennessee have won a Smart 50 Award for one of the 50 "most transformative smart projects each year."
Their project seeks to enable "a person with augmented reality [AR] goggles or a specially equipped smartphone or tablet...to walk over the area that needs to be inspected, look into the device, and see in detail what's underground six to 12 feet down," says UVM's Dryver Huston.
This "cognitive" ground-penetrating radar can pinpoint scans in a geographic space that the program can remember and stitch into a map using a common three-dimensional (3D) scanning smartphone app. The phone then renders the radar scans as clearly recognizable 3D objects using AR software.
Another key component is an edge computing platform that can process the collected data near the collection site so it can be sent back to the operator in real time.
Smart 50 Awards, given in partnership with Smart Cities Connect, Smart Cities Connect Foundation, and US Ignite, annually recognize the most innovative global smart cities projects.
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