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TRACXN REPORT : SMART CITIESMarch 2016

Smart Cities Report, March 20162

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Contents

Topic Page

Sectors We Track 04

Overview 05

Market Map 11

Company List 15

Team 77


Illustrative Sectors We Track

ENTERPRISEINFRASTRUCTURE

ENTERPRISEAPPLICATIONS

MOBILETECHNOLOGY

CONSUMER FINTECH EDUCATION HEALTHCARE

SECURITY

STORAGE

NETWORKING

MOBILITY

IT OPS

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

API MANAGEMENT

BIGDATA INFRASTRUCTURE

SAAS

MOBILE-FIRST ENT. APPS

INTELLIGENT ENT. APPS

OPEN SOURCE

RETAIL TECH

MARKETING TECH

STEALTH MODE

VERTICAL SAAS

MOBILE COMMERCE

MOBILE PAYMENTS

MOBILE MARKETING

MOBILE DEV TOOLS

MOBILE HEALTH

MOBILE GAMING

MOBILE LEARNING

MOBILE COMMUNICATION

INTERNET OF THINGS

VIRTUAL REALITY

CONSUMER ROBOTICS

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

SMART CITIES

DRONES

SMART CARS

3D PRINTING

FOOD TECH

SECOND HAND GOODS

BITCOIN

PAYMENTS

EDUCATION IT

SELF LEARNING

LIFE SCIENCES

DIGITAL HEALTH


Sector Overview

Scope of report

This report covers companies providing technology solutions for better connectivity and management of urban areas. Over$1.27B invested since 2010, with ~ $494M+ invested in 2015 YTD. 35+ rounds of funding between Jan. 2015 – Feb. 2016.Network Providers and Monitoring are the two top funded sectors.

• Network Providers - investments worth ~ $514M

• Monitoring - investments worth ~ $370M

Most active funds

• Cisco Investments (Sensity Systems, Veniam)

• Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (Silver Spring Networks, Inrix)

• Siemens Venture Capital (ChargePoint, Sensys Networks)

• True Ventures (Streetline, Veniam)

Notable investments in last two months

• Veniam (Network Provider) - $22M, Series B from Verizon Ventures, Cisco Investments, Orange Digital Ventures, YamahaMotor Ventures, True Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Cane Investments – Feb 11, 2016.

• Parkifi (Monitoring - Parking) - $7.5M, Series A from Crosslink Capital, Grotech Ventures – Feb 24, 2016.

• Understory (Monitoring - Weather) - $7.5M, Series A from 4490 Ventures, Monsanto Growth Ventures, True Ventures, RREVentures, SK Ventures – Jan 28, 2016.

Note: Only companies with higher total-funding are mentioned among companies funded by the ‘Most active funds‘


The highest number of companies were founded in the year 2014

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• The number of companiesfounded was highest in 2014where the number of startupsin smart cities increased in thefields of monitoring, analyticsand navigation.

• The highest number of startupswere formed in monitoring &management (10) andnavigation (6) in 2014. Ingeneral, there has been anincreasing trend in the numberof startups in monitoring &management, navigation andanalytics providers.


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• The number of companiesfounded reached 35 in 2014while the number of companiesfunded has also increased to 30in 2014.

• There has been significantinterest in smart cities since2013 as various governmentsaround the world have startedprograms, grants focusing onsmart cities.

• US Department of Transport’schallenge, India’s Smart CitiesMission along with differentprograms by other countrieshave led to renewed focus onsmart cities segment. Nordiccountries have shownconsiderable focus on cleanenergy and smart cities andhave emerged as leaders in thisfield.


The highest funding was in the year 2015

Petra Systems $40M

ChargePoint$37M

Gogooro $50MINRIX $37M

ChargePoint$47.5M

Silver Spring Networks $30M

Streetline $25MSpace-Time

Insights $20M

INRIX $55MNextnav $70M

Gogoro $130MSigfox $115M

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• The funding in smart citiessector has increasedsignificantly since 2013 andalmost quadrupling in 2015from the 2013 levels. Themomentum continues in 2016.

• As the smart cities sector hascaught on attention ofgovernment authorities, thefunding in this sector hasincreased significantly. Thefunding is focused oninfrastructure includingnetworks and platformproviders.

• The year 2015 saw big ticketfunding in companies likeSigfox, Connecthings whichprovide the backbone of smartcity connectivity. The funding isfocused on established startupsin the smart city infrastructurespace.


Network Providers for smart cities have received the highest overall funding

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Monitoring & Management

Renewable Energy

Energy Efficiency

Platform

Navigation

Analytics

Funding Amount (in Millions)

Total funding ( in millions of USD ) • The interest in smart cities hasjust begun and therefore muchof the investment is focused onnetwork providers providingconnectivity in smart cities.

• But, there are only a fewestablished startups whoaccount for most of the fundingin Network Provider space.

• The upcoming sector ismonitoring and management asgathering data, deriving insightsand taking timely actions is thefundamental idea of smart cities.The number of startups in thisfield is also increasing and isalmost half of the total numberof startups. The funding interestis also catching up.


Monitoring & Management – Teardown

Water Supply, $4M

Traffic, $168.1M

Horizontal, $14.7M

Transportation, $170k

Infrastructure, $17.7M

Crowd, $10.8M

Parking, $69.2M

Waste, $27.5M

Weather, $9.5M

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Sector wise funding split up (2010 – 2015)

• Traffic and parking are the twohighly relevant problems inurban areas across the world.Therefore, the funding in thesetwo sub-sectors is highest.Traffic monitoring andmanagement has more than halfthe funding in this sector.

• Companies like INRIX, Streetline,Miovision in traffic monitoringand companies like Parkifi havereceived major funding. Apartfrom these two, waste andinfrastructure monitoring havealso received significant interest.

• Even in the first two months of2016, there are a few companiesformed in this sector. Apart frommonitoring & management, pureanalytics on data gathered is alsoan upcoming area for startups.


MONITORING

COLLECTABLES

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Street Lighting

Sensity Systems (2010, $74M)

Electricity

FirstFuel Software (2011, $45M)

Analytics

SangamTech (2013)

$266M RENEWABLE ENERGY

Gogoro (2011, $180M)

$181M PLATFORM

Sensor Network

FiberSensing (2004, $3M)

Data Visualization

The CoSMo Company (2010, $5M)

$35M

$338M

NAVIGATION

Planning

Transmitix (2014)

$14M

NETWORK PROVIDER

Sigforx (2009, $148M)

$189M

ANALYTICS

Space-Time Insight (2007, $50M)

$50M

Weather

Understory Inc. (2012, $2M)

Waste

Enevo (2010, $27M)

Infrastructure

Lucid Design Group (2004, $16M)

Radiation

Safecast (2011)

Crowd

Placemeter (2012, $8M)

Traffic

Miovision (2005, $29M)

Parking

Streetline (2005, $50M)

Air Quality

BreezoMeter (2014)

Water supply

Ayyeka (2011)

Cumulative funding in the sectorPractice Area - Technology | Analysts: @AmolKhedkar19, @VijayBhaskar_Q

February 2016Tracxn BlueBox : Smart Cities200+ companies in the sector, 60 funded in last 5 years, $432m invested in 2015

Most Active Investors: Eon, Cisco Investments, Foxconn, Ginko Partners


Smart Cities – Business Model Description

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Technology solutions to improve energy efficiency of city utilities

MONITORING & MANAGEMENT

Monitoring of parameters like traffic, weather, etc. and services

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Solutions that use renewable energy innovatively to provide city services

OverviewSmart Cities (in our case) consists of Internet of Things based solutions for monitoring of different parameters to help in bettermanagement of resources and people, ensuring safety and reducing environmental impact. It also focusses on solutionsenhancing energy efficiency of urban spaces, providing analytics platforms and networks to enhance connectivity.• Monitoring & Management– Monitoring parameters like traffic, weather, etc. and services based on this data• Energy Efficiency – Technology solutions to improve energy efficiency of city utilities• Renewable Energy – Solutions that use renewable energy innovatively to provide city services• Platform – Platforms for collecting, visualizing or building services based on city data• Navigation – Technologies helping in navigation of internal spaces or spaces where GPS cannot provide data for cities• Analytics – Solutions that use data of various parameters monitored and derive real time insights• Network Provider - Hardware and connectivity solutions targeted towards smart cities


Smart Cities – Business Model Description

PLATFORM

Platform for collecting, visualizing or creating services based on city data

NETWORK PROVIDER

NAVIGATION

Navigation of internal urban spaces where GPS is not sufficient

Connectivity solutions targeting smart cities

ANALYTICS

Real time insights from city data


Most Active Investors

Cisco Ventures

KPCBSiemens Venture Capital

True Ventures

Aster Capital

BMW I Ventures

E.ON SE FoxconnGE

VenturesGinko

PartnersGV

Intel Capital

Monitoring Worldsensing InrixSensys

NetworksUnderstory, Streetline

EnevoLucid Design

GroupEnevo

Urban Engines

Inrix

Energy Efficiency

SensitySystems

BuildingIQ BuildingIQFirstFuelSoftware

SensitySystems

Renewable Energy

ChargePoint ChargePointChargePoint

Navigation MyCityWay

Platform The Cosmo company

AnalyticsSpace-Time

Insight

Network Provider

Veniam Silver Spring Networks

Veniam Actility ActilitySilver Spring

NetworksSigfox


Smart Cities – Company List

DETAILS CLOSE TO 227 COMPANIES (88 FUNDED AND 139 UNFUNDED COMPANIES)

COVERS THE FOLLOWING SECTORS


Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy

Platform Navigation AnalyticsNetwork Provider


Monitoring & Management (1/29)


Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy

Platform Navigation Analytics Network Provider

Company Details Funding Investors

NOVEDA [ , 2006]: Energy and water monitoring solutions to reduce energy and water use,optimize performance of solar PV systems, and reduce their carbon footprint. It provides hardware,software with SaaS platform for real time web based energy and water monitoring.

$8.95M

MyForce [Denver, 2009]: MyForce provides effective personal protection in an emergency byallowing users to connect with a professional response team with one touch sent from any iPhone,Android or BlackBerry smartphone. The information that is transmitted at the press of a buttonincludes user information by matching registration information, GPS location and audio of what ishappening. In an emergency situation, making a call may be difficult but response can be expeditedby just pressing the button on smartphone app. MyForce has successfully passed AT&T’sEnterprise Software Certification Program. It was created by Soteria Systems LLC.

$2.95M Greenline Ventures

CityScan [Chicago, 2011]: Cityscan uses LiDAR-equipped cars to transverse cities, recording thebuilt environment with engineering-grade accuracy. This data is then analysed using proprietarysoftware algorithms to comb the data to check for compliance with city regulations. Applicationsinclude: identifying illegal building conversions and overcrowding by counting doorbells andmailboxes, post-disaster damage assessments, comprehensive fire risk assessments. Has been usedin Chicago and Philadelphia to check bill board conformance.

$2.8M Origin Ventures, Serra Ventures

IKOR metering [San Sebastian De Los Reyes, 2006]: Provides innovative solutions for the automaticmanagement of water and gas meters, to optimize billing systems, reduce reading costs, detectlosses and fraudulent use. It provides metering and M2M communication solutions for industrialand utility sector including custom made solutions. Part of IKOR group.

€1.5MGestiÃ³n de Capital Riesgo del PaÃs

Vasco

http://www.noveda.com/

http://www.myforce.com/

http://www.cityscan.com/

http://www.ikormetering.com/




Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy



Worldsensing [Barcelona, 2008]: Worldsensing addresses three market verticals:- Transport, withFastPrk and Bitcarrier (through acquisition) which cover traffic and parking data, Oil/Gas, withSpidernano, an advanced wireless seismic acquisition system and Industrial applications, withLoadsensing, which can digitize almost all geotechnical sensors available. Their flagship smart cityproject in Moscow, includes FastPrk's first large-scale deployment. Has received angel investmentfrom FJME (investment arm of Acciona) and Series A investment round. Worldsensing has beenlabelled by the prestigious “Pike Research” as one of the 17 companies actively shaping the SmartCity eco-system.

Cisco Investments, Mitsui & Co, Kibo Ventures, Fundación José Manuel

Entrecanales, Endeavor

APIS labs [Herndon, 2015]: Founded by technology leaders in machine learning, sensor fusion, geo-spatial intelligence, etc., and focusses on products using sensors and analytics. The ambient assistedliving system helps in elderly assisted living by giving notifications about the activity so that supportis available easily. It also has a solution for activity detection for community security. Thenotification of unwarranted activities in a locality are communicated to facilitate a better responseto crime.

Graviton [ , 2015]: Provides a patent pending intrusion detection solution. It is a clever electronicdevice to be fitted with doors or window panes. It detects and alarms about intrusion detection intothe premises. It is a product of Somov enginnering and won the Skolkovo Startup Village 2015 pitchcompetition.

INGU Solutions [Saskatoon, 2014]: Ingu Solutions Inc. is a provider of innovative sensing andmonitoring solutions and services with a focus on remote and/or inaccessible areas. Ingu SolutionsInc. is responsible for the marketing, sales and management in of the intellectual property portfolioof the Netherlands based INCAS³ group in Canada. Provides highly miniaturized sensors for airquality, magnetic field, humidity, etc. monitoring. It also provides a platform for highly distributedmonitoring and analysis.

http://www.worldsensing.com/

http://www.apislabs.us/

http://www.grvt.ru/

http://www.ingu-solutions.com/




Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy



Powel [Trondheim, 1996]: Powel is a leading supplier of software solutions to the energy, publicand contracting sectors. Hydro production optimisation, network information systems, smartmetering, water and waste-water management, 3D modelling for road and tunnel projects are itsfocus areas. It has 1000+ clients in Europe in both public and private space.

uRADMonitor [Timisoara, 2014]: Designed several fixed and mobile detectors with sensors capableof detecting both chemical and physical harmful factors. The data includes temeperature, CO2levels, radiation, harmful chemicals, pollen, etc. This is an open source project and depends onpublic support. It has raise money on Indegogo and requests users to buy the devices to support agrowing community of data gatherers. The data is freely available online and

Valarm [Venice, 2012]: Valarm LLC is a software company providing mobile apps and web-basedtools for remote environmental monitoring/sensing, mobile data acquisition, and asset / vehicletracking. The primary product Valarm, is an app which monitors built-in sensors in any Androidmobile device, as well as external sensors connected via USB and/or Bluetooth, and enables alertingand data-acquisition via web, email, SMS/text. Internal sensors include but are not limited toGPS/location, camera, accelerometer/gyroscope, light sensor, microphone. External sensors includeCO2, ambient light, etc. They provide Valarm compatible sensors and are bootstrapped since thebeginning.

URBIOTICA [Barcelona, 2008]: Design and develop sensing systems for smart city solutions. It hasstrategic partnerships with various companies and research institutes to give a complete solution.Current solutions include smart mobility, parking management, waste management, traffic andnoise monitoring.

http://www.powel.com/

http://www.uradmonitor.com/

http://www.valarm.net/

http://www.urbiotica.com/en




Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy



symvaro GmbH [Klagenfurt, 2010]: Provides products for both individuals and organizations forwaste management, water management and other smart city applications. The waste managementtool provides mobile app for scheduling, providing information of collections points, maintenanceand integration for waste management authorities. Water management solutions includes smartwater metering, transmission of usage data over internet or telephone and easy replacement ofmeters. It was incubated by ABC Accelerator and has individual angel investing.

CTY [St. Louis, 2014]: CTY's flagship product, Pulse, is analytics for physical spaces. Tailored data forpedestrian activity, air quality, noise pollution, and more is accessible from your computer ormobile device in real time.

Evja [Naples, 2015]: Prominent product is SENSO is a smart device made to improve health and lifeof the people. It is small, wireless, portable and wearable cube that measures factors such astemperature, humidity, air quality and much more. It communicates with Smartphone to keep youinformed about these trends. eVja also has other products like Enveyron and Beero. eVja focusseson designing and developing smart devices and software in Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless SensorNetwork (WSN), M2M and Smart Cities solutions

RadGreen [Kiryat Ono, 2008]: RadGreen provides large organizations, academic institutions andmunicipal bodies with applicable solutions to monitor and control their urban environments byrelying on a single, consolidated, environmental monitoring system (through their EMS Cloudserver). Their system currently monitors radiation with other environmental sensors such ashumidity, flammable gasses, combustible gasses, and a wide range of other hazardous substancesin the works.

http://www.symvaro.com/

http://www.cty.io/

http://www.evja.eu/

http://www.radgreen.com/




Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy



iVivaCloud [Singapore, 2012]: iVivaCloud (by Eutech Cybernetics, founded 1990) provides solutionsfor officials to manage cities, buildings, offices, assets and facilities through a single customizeddashboard that can monitor assets against a self-service help desk as well. It has integration supportfor HVAC - BAC (via Modbus), utility & services metering, video surveillance & intercom,BMS systems (MEP, lift, lighting and fire alarm systems), traffic systems, irrigation and wastetreatment systems and street lighting.

ACROBOTIC Industries [Pasadena, 2013]: Acrobotic offers multiple open source DIY components.Their offerings include the Smart Citizen project- an Arduino-powered kit that tracks localenvironmental variables like temperature, humidity, air composition, ambient brightness, andsound levels. It also features an online dashboard, an API and an app that let's people visualize datafrom all deployed kits. Raised more than $68k on a goal of $50k on Kickstarter. Will also be addingsoil and water testing as well as other swappable daughter boards.

SMART-Interaction [Rome, 2012]: Smart-I offers smart monitoring solutions. Their system isdeployed on street lighting collects data such as: traffic data & flow, weather conditions,identification & classification of moving objects (cars, pedestrians, bicycles), detection ofdangerous events, and natural brightness of the scene. A remote server allows storage, statistics,visualization, and interface with the street lamps remote control system. By switching onstreet lighting only when traffic or people are present, significant energy savings of up to 50% canbe realized. Other applications include: accident monitoring, parking, adaptive traffic lights andsecurity applications.

Smartsensors [Haarlem, 2014]: Smartsensors offers products for smart homes, smart buildings andsmart roads. Smart home offerings includes smart alarms that sense particulates, carbon monoxide,temperature, humidity and sound. Their Smartbuilding system measures temperature, humidity,carbon monoxide, ozone, VOC's and sound. They also have a Smart Road sensory system thatmeasures vehicle pollution. They have also added devices for monitoring smart cities (likeparticulate matter, NOx, sound). All of these are connected to a cloud system for configurable alertsand data viewing. Custom solutions are also available.

http://www.ivivacloud.com/

http://www.acrobotic.com/

http://www.smart-interaction.com/

http://www.smartsensors.me/




Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy



Traffic

INRIX [Kirkland, 2004]: Inrix offers real-time, historical, and predictive traffic information solutions(harvested from anonymous GPS locator devices). Connected Car services include: parking, fuel POI& pricing local search & geocoding, traffic cameras and routing (SDK for integration is alsoavailable). Other offerings include Inrix Connected Services, a suite of content services providingnavigation OEMs and location-based service application developers with solutions for in-vehicle,PND, wireless phone, and other connected devices; Inrix Total Fusion, a traffic data service thatcombines real-time, predictive, and historical traffic information; Inrix Real-Time Flow that helps todevelop real-time traffic data and traffic speed maps; and Inrix Nationwide Traffic Alerts thatprovides real-time congestion alerts for roadways. The company also provides Inrix Real-TimeIncidents that provides real-time reporting of traffic incidents. Acquisitions include ITIS Holdingsand Parkme.

$143.1MPorsche, August Capital, Venrock, Bain Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Intel Capital

Traffic

Miovision [Kitchener, 2005]: Miovision Technologies uses video and web-based technologies, tomonitor traffic and analyse traffic data. Using a combination of specialized hardware, a webplatform and analytics, they can monitor and report on a variety of traffic data with an accuracy of95% or more. Web platform allows easy sharing and management of data. Has multiple cities ascustomers.

$28.5M

Investeco Capital, MacKinnon, Bennett & Company Inc., Renewal2 Social Investment Fund, Comerica

Bank, Plazacorp Ventures

Traffic

Sensys Networks [Berkeley, 2004]: Sensys Networks uses hardware sensors to monitor, analyseand report on traffic data. Applications based on this data include: real-time traffic &infrastructure monitoring, accurate & reliable traveler information systems and enhancedincident response. Their systems can also be used to for automatic data based decision systems fortraffic control and routing. Has over 150 customers in 40 US states, and 10 countries.

$16.8MVoyager Capital, Horizon Ventures,

Fuse Capital, Siemens Venture Capital

http://www.inrix.com/

http://www.miovision.com/

http://www.sensysnetworks.com/




Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy



Traffic

Aldis [Knoxville, 2006]: Aldis,sells traffic and energy management technology and services. Theyoffer GridSmart, a vision-based traffic monitoring and control system. GridSmart products include:Spectra 360 (a single-camera solution), Optima 360 (provides stop-bar detection, vehicle counting,speed, and classification), Ultra 360, (tracks vehicle speed, turn and pedestrian counts, emergencyvehicle preemption modes, machine-enabled red light mitigation, and real-time video feeds),XPress (a freeway monitoring system to view and track vehicles and provides traffic control centerwith vehicle counts and average speeds) and Centrex, a smart parking system. They also provideSmartWay, a line of products that provide energy efficient LED traffic signals.

$11M

Innovation Valley Partners, Battelle Ventures, Meritus Ventures,

Murphree Venture Partners, Launch Tennessee

Traffic

TrafficLand [Fairfax, 2000]: TrafficLand is the leading provider of live traffic video, offering easyaccess to thousands of traffic cameras throughout the United States and the world. It providesservices that aggregate and deliver live traffic video over the Internet and on TV. The Company hasdeveloped patent-pending technology to allow it to aggregate thousands of CCTV (closed circuittelevision) video feeds from multiple Departments of Transportation (DoTs) traffic cameranetworks.

$4.64M

Traffic

MetroTech [Alpharetta, 2011]: MetroTech uses traffic and security camera feeds to gather andanalyse traffic data. This data can be used to better synchronize traffic lights. City planners can takeadvantage of this data to better design intersections and widen lanes to ease traffic flow. The dataalso has telematics and self driving vehicle applications. In use at a 100 intersections in Santa Clara,California. Has reduced stops by about 18k per day.

$1.1M Atlanta Technology Angels

Traffic

Ma3Route [Nairobi, 2012]: Ma3Route is a mobile/web/SMS platform that crowd-sources fortransport data and provides users with information on traffic, matatu directions and driving reports.Also offers API for developers.

$25k

http://www.aldiscorp.com/

http://www.trafficland.com/

http://www.metrotech-net.com/

http://www.ma3route.com/




Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy



Traffic

Urban Engines [Los Altos, 2012]: Urban Engines offer a SaaS solution for tracking traffic congestion.Using data aggregated from travel cards, and GPS data from public transport, Urban Engines buildsa detailed model of public transport utilization. Urban planners can utilize this data to understandand improve traffic congestion. Their solution can also help planners implement an incentivesystem to alleviate congestion during peak travel times with rewards for commuters using off peakhours. Has been used in Singapore (MRT system) to reduce peak hour travel time by 7% to 13%.Investors include Eric Schmidt of Google.

Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, SV Angel, Google Ventures,

Samsung Ventures

Traffic

CountIt SRL [Buenos Aires, 2015]: Uses advance image processing algorithms to analyze data onnumber of vehicles and provide real time updates using a web app. It also provides analytics abouttravel time, average speeds, etc. It can be used for traffic monitoring and management as well asinfrastructure planning.

Traffic

Hangzhou Sharp Wisdom Technology Ltdd. [ , 2010]: Computer vision and sensor fusiontechnologies to capture the traffic data at various locations. It helps in intelligent traffic incidentdetection, abnormal flows, etc. This helps in traffic management and planning of infrastructure. It islocated at Zhejiang University Science Park

Traffic

Transpose [ , 2013]: Offers a device which counts the number of pedestrians and vehicles passingthrough a road/path in real-time. This data is transmitted and analyzed using which appropriatestrategies are devised. Signed a MoU with Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS).

http://www.urbanengines.com/

http://www.countit.com.ar/

http://www.sharpwisdom.com/

http://www.transposeindia.com/




Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy



Traffic

Mentis Services [Nice, 2011]: Mentis-services is an international software engineering companywhich gathers valuable urban data through the Internet of Things to create smart cities. It helpsauthorities to manage traffic by providing information through traffic sensors. It analyzes and canuse dynamic pricing for better routing of city vehicles. It also suggest the use of kiosks for smartparking and getting in touch with officers in case of emergency. The authorities get analytics anddata about traffic in the entire city real time.

Traffic

Betterways [Barcelona, 2012]: Betterways has developed technology to better manage smart cityvitals. Betterways solutions target three sectors urban design, data fusion and traffic prediction.

Traffic

Clearview Traffic Group [Bicester, 2006]: Clearview Traffic offers a comprehensive range ofintuitive, cost effective and sustainable traffic data management solutions. Their solutions includeGolden River- a system for monitoring, counting and classifying traffic flows and a Weigh-In-Motionsystem; and Astucia- a solar powered logging stud with multiple global studs. Won a £4m AMSCIgrant (part of a UK reshoring grant).

Traffic

Vehicle Data Science [Oakland, 2013]: VDS offers products based on their core technology, theKinematic Map. It aggregates millions of vehicle traces to create an accurate, information-richroadway map (mined from GPS and other vehicle sensors). It depicts how roads are used, whichenables detection of unsafe maneuvers, trajectories, respond to traffic controls, and provideaccurate warnings to manage conflicts with other vehicles, and reliably setting an autonomousvehicle's path and speed. Solutions based on their Kinematic map include ADAS, drivingautomation, usage based insurance and fleet management. Backed by the NSF, partners includeVolpe, Mercedes, IBM, Aegis Tech and 2lemetry.

http://www.mentis-services.com/

http://www.betterways.es/

http://www.clearviewtraffic.com/

http://www.vds-corp.com/




Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy



Traffic

Acyclica [Frisco, 2011]: Acyclica provides traffic information for both real-time and historicalanalytic applications. Their Compass series of sensors anonymously detect MAC (Media AccessControl) address' and tracks them from point to point, providing stable, accurate, and reliable traveltimes, along with the ability to analyze traffic flows with great detail. All collected is analyzed bytheir companion Analyzer software. Has partnered with Siemens to exclusively distribute Acyclica’shardware to the North American market.

Traffic

Bismart [Barcelona, 2009]: They offer a variety of city services such as: smart destination (using IOTsensors, it gathers data and can be used for city navigation apps), bigov dashboards (scorecard forinternal use by municipal officials), citizen sensor (uses government apps to track citizen locationdata and metrics) and social analytics (analyse citizen sentiments through social media). Has wonmultiple partner of the year awards from Microsoft and is prominently featured as part of theirCityNext initiative.

Traffic

Bitcarrier [Barcelona, 2006]: Bitcarrier has developed a real time platform to manage traffic incities using sensors that pick up WiFi and Bluetooth signals. By using this anonymized data, thesystem provides information about traffic flux and journey time in real-time, which enables theoptimal management of traffic depending on where the most congested areas are. Bitcarrier’stechnology has been installed along 1.5k km of highways in Southern Europe and is currentlyproviding real-time traffic information in cities worldwide, including Barcelona, Panama City,Sydney, Paris, Helsinki and Buenos Aires. Acquired by WorldSensing in Feb. of 2014. Has customersin

Traffic

Sensefields [Barcelona, 2011]: SenseFields uses several magnetic sensors and a Data ProcessingSystem (DPS) that receives their signal and outputs a vehicle counting and classifying data. Whencombined with their software platform, further benefits include: analytical traffic modeling, trafficinfrastructure planning, vehicle counting and classification for shadow toll, dynamic tolls, real-timetraffic information and modeling of city mobility for urbanistic planning. Has multiple Spanishcustomers.

http://www.acyclica.com/

http://www.bismart.com/

http://www.bitcarrier.com/

http://www.sensefields.com/




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Traffic

Iteris [Santa Ana, 1968]: Iteris is a provider of information solutions for the intelligent trafficsystems (ITS) and the precision agriculture markets. The Company operates through threesegments: Roadway Sensors, Transportation Systems and Performance Analytics. The RoadwaySensors segment products include Vantage, Vantage Vector, VantageView, SmartCycle and vehicledetection systems for traffic intersection control, incident detection and highway traffic datacollection applications. It also has solutions in big data and analytics for transportation and precisionalgorithms.

Transportation

Traak [Edinburgh, 2005]: Traak Systems was founded in 2005 and is focused on delivering highperformance complex event processing based solutions for the growing RFID and sensor networkmarkets. It enhances raw sensor data, considers historical data to give more accurate predictiveanalytics. It has developed a Traak Analytics Platform and works with various government and localbody agencies to plan smart mobility solutions.

$390kBraveheart Investment Group,

Scottish Investment Bank, E-Synergy

Transportation

LOCK8 [Berlin, 2012]: Lock8 (VeloLock) offers an electronic key allowing users to lock and unlocktheir bikes using its mobile app. It also features GPS tracking and smart sensors, which activate a120 decibel alarm when the bicycle is tampered with. LOCK8 features a gyro-accelerometer,temperature sensor, vibration detector, light sensor and hot wire cable. With LOCK8 the user canreceive a push notification when a thief tries to tamper with the lock and can also share e-keys toborrow and lend bikes on the App. With its bike sharing platform, the smart bike lock allows anybicycle fleet to be connected to a rental platform, so bikes can be reserved and booked remotelythrough the app. A GPS/GSM chip integrated in the LOCK8 enables customers to locate and unlockthe bicycle without handing over keys. Lock8 won €40,000 at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe and alsoraised £60k on Kickstarter.

Horizons Ventures, Otto Capital, LLC

http://www.iteris.com/

http://www.traak.com/

http://www.lock8.me/




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Transportation

Vivacity Labs [London, 2016]: Vivacity labs provides cameras with on-board video analyticscapabilities for quantifying movement of pedestrians, vehicles and cyclists. Real-time data from anetwork of video feeds helps the users who are infrastructure operators and governmentauthorities to provide better services. It uses machine learning and computer vision technologiesand claims to give better analysis of video feeds with remote updation.

Transportation

Syncromatics [Los Angeles, 2006]: The Syncromatics Intelligent Transit Platform providespassenger counting, dispatch automation and real-time analytics to transit bus agencies nationwidewith the goal of considerably increasing the efficiency of transit.

Transportation

alcheratechnologies [London Borough Of Hounslow, 2014]: Computer vision based data platformfor use across Smart-Cities and Integrated Transport Systems, giving real-time data, forward-lookingpredictions & insights on movement of pedestrians, cyclists & vehicles. It can be used forservices that can react to real time demand, and long term data is also used for the planning anddeployment of new or upgraded infrastructure. Clients include smart cities in UK and expanding inEurope. Backed by Cisco and the Cognicity Incubator at Canary Wharf

Transportation

Nektria [Barcelona, 2012]: Nektria designs and implements smart business solutions and consultingservices focused on mobility 2.0. Nektria offers innovative mobility solutions aimed primarily at: –‘Sharing’ Fleet operators, public transport operators for cities, tour operators, university campuses,etc., freight operators. Operates within three mobility verticals: individual sharing, collectivesharing, and goods. Provides way for e-commerce last mile delivery, B2B smart and flexible fleetmanagement software, public bus management software.

http://www.vivacitylabs.com/

http://www.syncromatics.com/

http://www.alcheratechnologies.com/

http://www.nektria.com/




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Transportation

Meshcrafts [As, 2013]: Meshcrafts is a company that delivers Internet of things (IoT) software andhardware as a service to charging stations and parking lots. It plans to cure range anxiety andprovide real time information to all players in the EV scheme. The product includes SmartChargewhich is solution for charging station which has automated meter and payment solution.The SmartPoint EV is a retrofitting solution for old EV chargers to make them smart. It also has a solutioncalled Ergo which is fitted in the EV itself making a completely automatic charging experiencepossible.

Transportation

myBus GmbH [Berlin, 2010]: myBus is young company that provides telematic solutions for publictransportation (short-range, long-range and regional). It provides for scheduling, routing, real timetracking, location based advertising, fleet management, passenger information system, etc. In 2009,they recieved grant from German government and EU.

Transportation

Geotagg [Chennai, 2014]: Geotagg is a start-up by IIT Madras graduates, focused on providingsolutions in the field of intelligent transportation systems. Located at IIT Madras Research Park.Offers a suite of products for Advanced Passenger Information Systems deployed across the web,mobile and kiosk. platforms. Applications are specifically developed for the heterogeneous trafficscenarios. Its GPS based Public Information Systems solution for buses is specifically developed forthe dynamic Indian traffic conditions. Current work involves developing e-Ticketingapplication/modules, Fleet Management Systems, Crew Management Systems, Route OptimizationSystems and Traffic Density Mapping Systems. The company has also implemented a fullyautomated application for tracking the IIT Madras campus buses over web, mobile and kiosk.Acquired by Ola for undisclosed amount in Nov 2015.

http://www.meshcrafts.com/

http://www.mybuslive.com/

http://www.geotagg.in/




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Transportation

IntelloTranspo [Bangalore, 2015]: IntelloTranspo aims to introduce a pioneering businessframework to commercially incentivise safer transportation and a safety mind-set amongcommercial urban drivers. They plan to use technologies such as IoT, analytics, cloud, and mobility.

Crowd

Placemeter [New York City, 2012]: Placemeter uses algorithms and live feeds from traffic camerasto collect foot traffic data on people outside of businesses, inside them, walking past, and in publicplaces. Has a consumer app to show how crowded a certain outlet is. Has B2B plans, withapplication for retailers and urban planners. Also uses data from crowd, using their unusedsmartphones and Placemeter app. Founder-CEO holds 7 patents and a PhD in image processing, andhas 20 yrs experience in computer vision. Was incubated at Techstars New York in 2013.

$7.84M

New Enterprise Associates, TriplePoint Capital, Kima Ventures, Correlation

Ventures, Scrum Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Techstars

Crowd

Intellitix [Montreal, 2010]: Intellitix is a global provider of RFID access control and cashlesspayment systems for live events. Since 2011 they have activated over 2.5 million RFID tags atfestivals including Coachella, Bonnaroo, Tomorrowland, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Electric Zooand Austin City Limits. They claim to cut queues, eradicate ticket fraud and unwanted resale.

$3M Credo Ventures

Crowd

Scout [London, 2015]: Provides hardware and software which provides user tracking withoutintervention. This helps in monitoring traffic for flow, understanding unique customers or repeatvisitors, track prospect movements to understand behaviour. Apart for retail store applications, italso helps in security systems, conferences and events for monitoring traffic flow.

http://www.intello-transpo.com/

http://www.placemeter.com/

http://www.intellitix.com/

http://www.scouti.ng/




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Infrastructure

Lucid Design Group [Oakland, 2004]: Lucid has developed a cloud based building managementplatform to aggregate portfolio wide building and metering system data, helping managementteams in building optimization, planning and management. BuildingOS leverages the existinginfrastructure to gather data and create a centralized repository. Infrastructure monitoringsolutions at city level are also available.

$15.7MDry Creek Ventures, Formation 8,

Zetta Venture Partners, Autodesk, GE Ventures

Infrastructure

Syrinix [Norwich, 2004]: Development and delivery of intelligent water pipeline monitoringsolutions enabling utilities to manage their networks actively rather than reactively. The solutionsinclude precisely locating emerging leaks, damaging pressure spikes and flow monitoring. It helps toreduce operating costs and extend product life.

£2M LCIF, Angel CoFund

Infrastructure

Pavanu Mobility [Tullamore, 2015]: Pavanu mobility gathers data for condition of pavements withregards to safety and accessibility and them maps it onto google maps. It can be used by peoplewith mobility challenges or for elderly care takers to decide which routes to take. It could also beused by civic authorities for maintenance and repair. They plan to have this data gathering done beautonomous robots in the future.

Infrastructure

Integrated Roadways [Kansas City, 2012]: Integrated Roadways' precast pavement system getsroadwork done faster. Its products also last longer. The smart pavements have embedded sensornetworks that dynamically report real-time road conditions and traffic analytics, while providingwireless charging and driverless navigation to vehicles. It is costlier than current alternatives but itclaims that it would become cost competitive very fast as the volumes increase.

http://www.lucidconnects.com/

http://www.syrinix.com/

http://www.pavanu.com/

http://www.integratedroadways.com/




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Infrastructure

Concrete Sensors [Boston, 2015]: Concrete sensors has developed sensors which when attached tothe RE bars shares data about the concrete health to the users smartphone. Sensor detectsconcrete moisture, relative humidity and real time monitors the concrete strength thus eliminatinglong testing procedures.

Infrastructure

Smart Structures [West Palm Beach, 2004]: Smart Structures uses SmartPile EDC technology that isembedded in concrete pile and accessed wirelessly during installation and post installation. Usingcombination of sensors and software, the effort and time required to test piling during driving hasbeen significantly reduced additionally it improves the overall quality of the foundation

Infrastructure

Asset Mapping [London, 2012]: Asset mapping connects devices and management systems to asingle overview platform that locates and authenticate them and gather data from all yoursystems.Asset locations are gathered from CAD software, and information from scheduling toolsand task & asset Management software added to enable the stakeholders and the projectteams to know where, when, and who needs to install equipment. Teams can navigate to the exactlocation where equipment needs to be installed, and have access real time information needed tocomplete tasks efficiently. Once an Asset is online and operational, real time information and livevideo feeds can be accessed via the online map. Used at London Olympics.

Infrastructure

Dig.y.Sol [Hartford, 2009]: Dig.y.Sol offers a range of monitoring equipment. Solutions include:picoChain (base monitoring equipment), fluidChain (focused on monitoring, diagnostics, andremedial control of fluid distribution networks) and facilityChain (focused on monitoring,diagnostics, and remedial control of mechanical, electrical and electromechanical networks within afacility). Available under an OEM licensing agreement. Also looking for founding OEM partners

http://www.concretesensors.com/

http://www.smart-structures-inc.us/

http://www.assetmapping.com/

http://www.digysol.net/




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Infrastructure

Embedor Technologies [Champaign, 2014]: Embedor Technologies, a startup spun out of theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Park, develops wireless smart sensortechnologies for the structural health monitoring of civil infrastructure (such as bridges and dams).Uses a custom designed wireless smart sensor platform and software framework to facilitatereliable, real-time structural condition assessment for extreme events (earthquakes, hurricanes,etc.), as well as long-term deterioration. Embedor is the first startup selected for CiscoEIR@CIE(joint-incubation program between University of Chicago and Cisco). Currently participating in theincubator (as of Feb. 2015).

Infrastructure

LifeSpan Technologies [Atlanta, 2003]: LifeSpan Technologies provides objective, actionablestructural health monitoring information for critical pubic infrastructure such as bridges. By usingsensors rather than visual inspection, operators benefit from objective, precise and timelyperformance data on the condition of bridges. State operators can install sensors on a bridge orother structure to monitor its structural integrity either once or on a continual basis. Has pilotprojects with multiple U.S. states

Infrastructure

WhatUpBridge [Miami, 2011]: WhatUpBridge monitors critical infrastructure (like bridges andcrossings) by placing sensors on them. These sensors can then alert users to potential delays,allowing them to reroute. In a beta test, WhatUpBridge is monitoring the Brickell Avenue Bridge inMiami, allowing beta users to receive notifications about the status of the bridge based on theirschedule. The app will be free to users. Investors include Urban.us.

http://www.embedortech.com/

http://www.lifespantechnologies.com/

http://www.whatupbridge.com/




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Parking

Streetline [San Francisco, 2005]: Streetline’s technology helps drivers find empty parking spaces,while also allowing cities, universities, and parking-lot owners to learn more about their parkingoccupancy. It uses sensors installed next to parking spaces to determine whether a space is empty,then delivers that data to apps, including the free Parker app for consumers and other productsdesigned for city planners and parking facility operators. Streetline holds the patent on smartparking system which detects the presence of a car through a network of ultra-low power wirelesssensors located in individual parking spaces. The company has captured over 200 million parkingevents since its first go-to-market in 2008, was named one of Fast Company’s 10 Most InnovativeCompanies in Transportation, as well as IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year.

$50MSutter Hill Ventures, Fontinalis

Partners, RockPort Capital Partners, True Ventures, Qualcomm, Citigroup

Parking

Parkifi [Denver, 2014]: Parkifi's utilizes sensor technology to provide real time data to parking lotoperators, cities, and mobile applications in order to let them know where open and availableparking spots are. Drivers can find spots quicker and parking operators can optimize revenue byunderstanding current inventory. Product is currently unavailable.

$12.88M

Boomtown Accelerator, Center Electric, Galvanize, Access Ventures,

Simon Property Group, Howard Hughes Corp., Berman Enterprises,

Crosslink Capital, Grotech

Parking

Cleverciti [Munich, 2010]: Cleverciti Systems is a disruptive technology and big data company. Theyhave developed a new, cost-effective and smart on-street/open air parking system and sensortechnology. Each sensor detects and analyzes up to 100 parking spaces. Complete data analysis anddata processing inside the sensor. Cleverciti Parking App provides Live Information about free andoccupied parking spaces in the city and guidance directly to the nearest free space at theirdestination.

$3M KfW Bankengruppe

Parking

Spark [Tel Aviv, 2012]: sPARK is a developer for smart parking technologies and has developed inthis context a smart parking app named Polly- The Parking Fairy. Polly- The Parking Fairy offers anend-to-end parking solution. Polly imitates the natural behavior of vehicle drivers, while looking forparking. It doesn't only navigate one to its destination, but also considers the parking search time inits route calculation and takes full responsibility of the parking process. It guarantees parking in 10min.

$1.5M

http://www.streetline.com/

http://www.parkifi.com/

http://www.cleverciti.com/

http://www.parking-polly.com/




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Parking

Anagog [Tel Aviv, 2010]: Anagog's Smart Parking technology enables municipalities, drivers,developers and navigation partners offer real-time, optimized parking solutions. It collects datafrom various drivers and partners and integrates it into a cloud for giving real-time navigation tofree parking spots. It provides SDK for integrating it into third part devices.

$1M GigOptix

Parking

Kiunsys [Campochiaro, 2011]: Kiunsys is an end to end to connected parking solution providerfacilitating smart cities. Kiunsys provides cloud to store and analyze parking space data, also to pushcorrect information to customers, Ines conductor to relay payment status and location of a vehicleand sensors to gather parking and traffic information and relay it to Ines cloud.

$553.4k

Parking

Spaceek [Tel Aviv, 2014]: Spaceek eliminates the need to search for parking in Smart Citiesdelivering real-time parking availability information to drivers' mobile phones. The information isreal-time and does not depend on crowd sourcing or passive algorithms. It had launched acrowdfunding campaign on exitvalley to raise $200k. It already has commitments more than theexpected amount.

$272k

Parking

Hi-Park Solutions [Tel Aviv, 2013]: Hi-Park Patented technology, seamlessly crowd-sourced on-street parking vacancy data in real time using mobile device's cameras. Hi-Park significantly reducesthe time spent on searching for parking, reducing driver frustration for urbanites. Provides last mileparking navigation solution – enabling our users to know not only when they will arrive to thedesired location but also what time they will actually enter the meeting. Hi-Park is a Fully automaticimage recognition technology, enable our community drivers to use their smartphones camera asan automatic parking spots identification platform.

http://www.anagog.com/

http://www.kiunsys.com/

http://www.spaceek.com/

http://www.hi-park.co/




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Parking

Tap4Parking [Kiev, 2014]: Its aim is to help find, book and pay for parking in 30 seconds. It providesa interactive map with available parking on a mobile app. It allows to book and pay through themobile app. It provides hardware including cameras for identification of vacant parking spots andupdating them on the interactive map thus giving an end to end solution.

Parking

GreenAnt Technologies s.r.l. [Bari, 2012]: IsiMobi solves the problem of finding a parking spot inthe most crowded areas,outdoor. Wireless sensors are glued on the asphalt and detect parking spotavailability.Parking availability info is collected by solar panel powered Hubs and sent to servers.IsiMobi APP guides drivers to the closest available parking spot and also provides payment facility.IsiMobi provides real-time analytics on geographic and time base,helping parking managers inincreasing their incomes.

Parking

CityLift [Oakland, 2015]: CityLift makes automatic lift based parking solutions. This helps stackingvehicles in a small space in various formats and without manual interventions. It is used by realestate developers, city authorities and commercial spaces to resolve the parking problem in highlycrowded city zones.

Parking

LocoMobi [Toronto, 2010]: Parking solution including gates, credit card readers, ticket spitters, paystations, enforcement equipment, valet systems, permit management, rate calculation, proximitycard readers, and cloud infrastructure. A driver registers one time with the app and enters theirlicense plate and credit card. The driver then enters garage, LPR cameras recognize the vehicle andthe gate opens automatically. When they're ready to leave, they drive to the exit gate, the LPRcameras recognize the car again, bill the credit card saved to the account, the gates open and thedriver exits. A similar system works in non-gated scenarios as well.

http://www.tap4parking.com/

http://www.isimobi.com/

http://www.cityliftparking.com/

http://www.locomobi.com/




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Parking

Wii Tronics [Chennai, 2013]: Developer of a vehicle sensor technology that can be installed inparking areas which enables for vehicle presence information to be transmitted to the cloud serverand then to the mobile app used by consumers to check for real time information on parking spaceavailability. Users have the option to reserve parking space and the platform also provides analyticsto city traffic administrators to manage the parking effectively and perform accurate audit.

Parking

Nearpark [Bangalore, 2015]: IoT + real-time mobile updates about parking occupancy & last-mile navigation at various locations for users. With its data analytics platform helps to maximizerevenue by matching parking fees to demand patterns and driver habits. Platform and mobile appunder private beta currently.

Parking

Spot Innovation [Nashville, 2014]: Using cameras mounted above parking lots and empowered bya computer vision algorithm, parking operators can know what's going on in their lots at any giventime. The cameras' images are analyzed immediately and automatically and the data is streamed inreal-time to a central dashboard as well as to a mobile application. Key benefits include theability to increase profits and turnover via real-time demand-based pricing, automated ticket officerguidance, monthly parker planning and distribution, and advertising under-utilized properties todrivers. Recent images of the lot are also available to check for garbage, loiterers, and otherhazards. Spotwise currently operates in Nashville, Tennessee as part of the 2014 Jumpstart Foundrycohort.

Parking

Parx [ , 2000]: Parx offers a parking management solution for municipal authorities, parkingproviders, etc. It simplifies the current payment system at tolls and parking spaces, minimized cashhandling, eliminates fraud and helps in monitoring. Parx is a subsidiary of On Track Innovations Ltd.- a NASDAQ listed leading secure wireless smart card solutions.

http://www.wiitronics.com/

http://www.nearpark.com/

http://www.spotwise.co/

http://www.parxglobal.com/




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Parking

Parkopedia.com [London, 2009]: It provides parking information cross 6000 cities in 75 countries.People can promote their private parking spaces online through their website. The app is availableon smartphone and is also integrated in navigation systems of leading automotive OEMs. Thisallows the driver to locate vacant parking spaces nearby.

Parking

PARKING+PLUS [Cluj-Napoca, 2014]: PARKING+PLUS provides an ecosystem of web, mobile appsand innovative hardware, improving car drivers's parking problem. It provides private parkingspaces which can be easily found through smartphone app with the space availability. The entireprocess from discovery, entrance and payment for parking is made online without humanintervention. It also provide Smart Access Box for allowing access to private spaces.

Parking

ParkHelp [Barcelona, 2004]: Parkhelp has developed technology to enable users to better managetheir parking facilities. Parkhelp product for institutions have features like guidance system, lightingsystem, license plate recognition and signage solutions.Their solution for cities enablesadministration to guide drivers to free parking spaces. Customers include Mallorca airport, WTCBarcelona, Doha airport, Madrid airport.

Parking

Fastprk [Barcelona, 2008]: Fastprk (a product of Worldsensing) is a sensor based smart parkingsystem (uses SigFox wireless network). Deployments include the largest smart parking project in theworld at the time (12,000 sensors) in Moscow. Worldsensing has been labelled by the prestigious“Pike Research” as one of the 17 companies actively shaping the Smart City eco-system. Has wontwo major awards: the Stockholm Smart City Living Labs Global Award 2011 and the IBM SmartCamp 2010 London Award.

http://www.parkopedia.com/

http://www.parkingplus.ro/

http://www.parkhelp.com/

http://www.fastprk.com/




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Parking

Frogparking [Palmerston North, 2010]: Frogparking offers parking management solution. Theirofferings include: parking space occupancy sensors (can be solar powered), enforcement tools,reports and analytics, parking permit management and public mobile applications. Deploymentsinclude: Christchurch international airport, Queen Elizabeth medical centre in Palmerston, NorthCity council in Massey and Univerity Manawatu.

Parking

Fybr [St. Louis, 1998]: Fybr (previously StreetSmart Technology) offers end to end parkingmanagement solutions. System consists of: parking sensors, gateways, data analytics for actionableinsights as well as accessibility from any web-based device. Deployed by SFPark in San Francisco,with more than 8,200 spaces connected to the system.

Parking

Tinynode [Lausanne, 2012]: Tinynode sells wireless vehicle detection systems and associatedservices. Applications range from trucks detection on highway rest areas, enabling optimal use ofexisting infrastructures, to on-street parking monitoring (law enforcement, service to end-users),off-street parking monitoring, as well as space monitoring (fire lanes, hospital access, etc.). Solutionconsists of sensors installed in parking spots with internet connected gateways. Markets its systemas an OEM solution. Has multiple customers including the Parckr initiative (Intelligent Truck Parking)in Europe.

Water Supply

Cyber Rain [Encino, 2006]: Cyber Rain claims to be an irrigation controller with a brain. This smartsprinkler control system saves 30-70% on watering bills using computer to schedule watering timesand automatically adjust watering amounts. The watering is adjusted according to temperature,humidity, rains, etc. The company was acquired by Galcon in 2014.

$3.3M

Momentum Venture Management, Bridgepoint Investment Partners, Athenian Venture Partners, Funk

Ventures

http://www.frogparking.com/

http://www.fybr-tech.com/

http://www.tinynode.com/

http://www.cyber-rain.com/




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Water Supply

Aquarius Spectrum [Netanya, 2009]: Aquarius spectrum has developed AQS water pipe monitoringsolution, the solution consist of acoustic sensors for correlation-based leak detection and leaklocation. for noise logging/mapping. Software platform integrates data from sensors and informsuser when a leak is starting to develop, giving its position thus avoiding large scale damage.

$2.2M

Water Supply

Akvo [Delft, 2008]: Akvo is a non-profit organisationthat creates open source, internet and mobilesoftware and sensors. Akvo focuses on low-cost, sustainable and local solutions for those that haveno clean water or sanitation. The systems are used by partners to improve the management ofwater, sanitation, agriculture, health, energy, education and the environment.

€1.21M Rabobank, CEGESTI

Water Supply

Innovesi [Helsinki, 2014]: IoT technology and software solution for water utilities that monitorsentire water networks and all assets in real time. Innovesi digitizes water data with scalable, flexibleand fit-for-all-size water utility with cloud based water management solution. Platform for solvingdilemmas in water utilities' daily operation: - leaks and bursts, Non-revenue water (NRW) / Not-accountable water, water grid´s real-time performance, water quality, pipeline renovationinvestments, water security.

Water Supply

Ayyeka [Jerusalem, 2011]: Provides end-to-end remote monitoring solutions. Wavelet, is a remotemonitoring platform provides cyber secure, autonomous and comprehensive solution from sensingdevices, controllers to the computer platform. It focusses on smart water management and otherapplications like environment monitoring, smart grid, etc.

http://www.aquarius-spectrum.com/

http://www.akvo.org/

http://www.innovesi.com/

http://www.ayyeka.com/




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Water Supply

AquaCloud Inc. [San Francisco, 2015]: Aquacloud has developed monitoring device formunicipalities and aquaculture farms. Device when dropped into a body of water gives liveparameter readings and analytics. Cloud based platform allows remote monitoring of water body.Sensor currently detects temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity and company claims to beextending its capabilities.

Water Supply

Smart Earth Technologies [Roswell, 2009]: Smart earth technologies SetFlow Valve ControlPlatform allows water utilities to control the flow of water using smartphone application,compatible 3rd party AMI systems, and an enterprise web application for managing 1 thousands ofwater valves. Setflow enterprise cloud provides remote control and visibility.

Water Supply

Terepac Corporation [Waterloo, 2004]: Terepac is a Waterloo based IoT solutions provider that hasdeveloped monitoring solutions. As of July, 2015 Terepac is developing three solutions One Water,connected device to monitor pressure in municipal supply system, One Marine to monitor boats inharbour and One Machine to monitor equipment in facilities.Company has partnered with Instituteof Qunatum computing to provide additional data security. Additionally company claims to havedeveloped an advanced packaging and assembly technology to miniaturize electronic circuits.

Air Quality

Aclima [San Francisco, 2010]: Aclima designs and deploys environmental sensor networks thatcollect, process, and understand real-time data about the environment. Aclima deploys sensorsindoors, outdoors, and on vehicles in order to provide to provide insights into environment aroundus. Aclima's offers an end to end solution complete with hardware and software.

http://www.aquacloud.com/

http://www.smartearthtechnologies.com/

http://www.terepac.com/

http://www.aclima.io/




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Air Quality

Atmotube [San Francisco, 2015]: Provides a small portable device which can be used to get realtime air quality measurements. It is connected with a smartphone app which reads out the data inreal time. The measurements include volatile organic components, carbon monoxide, temperature,moisture, etc. Atmotube has been pledged with $132998 on Indiegogo crowd funding platform. It isa side business of NotAnotherOne, a Russiann IoT hardware startup.

Air Quality

Breeze [Hamburg, 2015]: Breeze provides air quality monitoring for smart cities and smart offices.The Hamburg-based startup develops smart, small and inexpensive sensors for measuring airquality and a cloud platform to evaluate the data.

Air Quality

Crowdair [Santiago, 2014]: CrowdAir delivers low cost and accurate portable Monitors thatmeasure air quality variables (particles and gases). It plans to use mobile and web apps show airquality at thousands of points at the most polluted cities worldwide and deliver personalized time-critical hints. The users develop a collaborative community that will improve awareness towards airpollution. CrowdAir uses emerging technologies to build low cost Monitors that populate realtime maps that show actual air conditions. Through smart alerts, by displaying cleaner air routesthey can be used to commute or exercise. It currently started operations in Santiago, Chile andhopes to find sponsors for initial air monitoring stations in other cities. It plans to sell low costmonitors fitted in helmets, bags, etc. to increase the granularity of data.

Air Quality

BreezoMeter [Haifa, 2014]: BreezoMeter is a big-data analytics platform that allows gathering ofdata from thousands of sensors worldwide and provides a real time, location based map of airpollution levels (with past levels available) at the street level using air pollution dispersion modelsand analytics. Users can plan daily activities, track air quality wherever they are, and get real timeair pollution alerts for important locations together with personalized health recommendations.Also available as an API for commercial use.

http://www.atmotube.com/

http://www.projectbreeze.eu/

http://www.cwdair.com/

http://www.breezometer.com/




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Weather

Understory, Inc. [Boston, 2012]: Understory generates real-time, localized, weather data, gatheredby a patent-pending, weather sensor. The hardware designed by Understory detects rain, hail,winds and other weather events directly at the Earth’s surface where the risk to life and property isgreatest. The information collected by Understory is analyzed and processed to create real-timedatasets and views of the movement and intensity of weather events to provide better insight andearly detection of risks. Understory's weather station generates three-dimensional wind, rain,and hail observations as well as temperature, pressure, humidity, lightning strikes, and ambientlight. First customer is American Family Insurance and is being deployed in Kansas city (suffers fromextreme weather conditions). Bolt accelerator alum.

$9.47M

VegasTechFund, RRE Ventures, SK Ventures, gener8tor, Bolt, Ventures,

Monsanto, CSA Partners, True Ventures

Weather

WeatherCloud Inc. [Boulder, 2013]: WeatherCloud aims to reduce roadway crashes caused by badweather. Using a variety of vehicle mounted sensors, that stream data collected about through-the-windshield visibility, slip/grip of tires on the road, pavement profile and weather profile back to acloud-based meteorological model. They then provide near real time voiced hazard warnings todrivers and planners on a mile by mile basis. WeatherCloud was incubated as my Cleantech FellowsInstitute 2012 Capstone project. Customers include Colorado Department of Transportation. Basedon research licensed from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

$175k

Waste

Enevo [Espoo, 2010]: Enevo develops and operates ONe Collect, a smart sensor network that givesup to 40% savings in waste collection costs. ONe Collect consists of smart wireless fill-level sensorswhich transmit information wirelessly to servers, where robust data analytics calculate optimizedcollection schedules and routes based on the real-time monitoring of each waste container. ONeCollect brings direct cost savings and improve the quality of service, as waste containers are alwaysemptied exactly when needed. They sell the trash bins on a lease model. Can typically reducelogistics cost by about two thirds. Customers include specific cities from Finland, Norway, Denmark,the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Trials are being conducted in Canada and USA as well.

$26.71M

Lifeline Ventures, Industry Investment, Teollisuussijoitus,

Earlybird VC, Draper, Foxconn, Finnish Industry Investment Ltd., Ginko

Ventures, Earlybird

http://www.understoryweather.com/

http://www.weathercloud.co/

http://www.enevo.com/




Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy



Waste

Bigbelly Solar [Newton, 2003]: Bigbelly Solar provides connected, solar powered waste andrecycling stations. All of their devices provide real-time and historical collection data that can beaccessed via the cloud-based CLEAN Management Console. Customers have two options – onestation that senses the amount of trash stored and other data or Bigbelly components, whichprovide on-site compaction of trash (adds 5X capacity) while still reporting collection data.Collection frequency shrinks by up to 80% using this method. Has sold 12,000 cans acrossPhiladelphia, Chicago, and at MIT and Boston University. Sold as a SaaS service with users paying forthe software and an ROI of about 2 years per ten cans.

$4.3M

Waste

Loci Controls [Boston, 2012]: Loci automates methane gas collection from landfills usingspecialized hardware.Their system provides continuous wireless monitoring of gas production andreal time adjustments to the collection system to optimize methane capture. Features include:wireless sensor networks with detailed information, tailored alerts, custom optimization algorithmfor maximum performance and an automatic control system keeps the gas production perfectlytuned. Has received a $40k grant from MIT to demonstrate this technology. Being piloted at twogas plants.

$765k LaunchCapital, CommonAngels

Waste

Compology [San Francisco, 2012]: Compology builds a dynamic routing system built for the wasteindustry. Compology employs sensors and software to monitor the volume of waste in frontloadand rolloff containers to more efficiently route collection trucks.

$525k

Waste

Bintelligence [Ireland, 2015]: Bintelligence is developing retrofittable sensor which uses ultrasonictechnology to measure the amount of space left in the bin thus enabling existing bins around citiesto provide information and metrics about usage and collection needs. This information is relayed togarbage collectors saving time and fuel by removing the need to check every bin frequently and bypresenting information on a map to help them plan their routes.

http://www.bigbelly.com/

http://www.locicontrols.com/

http://www.compology.com/

http://www.bintelligence.org/




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Waste

Evreka [Ankara, 2014]: Evreka has developed a smart waste collection system as a replacement fortraditional waste collection systems. Evreka wireless sensors can measure the garbage bin fillnesslevel instantaneously and send this information to cloud using m2m technology. These collectedinformation from all over the city is processed to get the efficient daily collection routes. Evrekaclaim to reduce waste collection cost by upto 45%

Waste

Smartbin [Swords, 2003]: SmartBin provides integrated hardware and software solutions that forwaste monitoring. SmartBin solution bring significant savings by ensuring that waste collectionservice is only carried out as necessary. SmartBin solutions are offered on a SaaS subscriptionmodel. Has partnered with Trimble to develop solutions that leverage positioning technology,wireless communications, asset monitoring and fleet management capabilities for theenvironmental services and recycling markets.

Radiation

SAFECAST [Tokyo, 2011]: Safecast is provides access to an open sensor network data, software andhardware. They are currently focused on monitoring radiation levels in Japan in the wake of the3/11 Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear emergency. They use a combination ofvolunteers and fixed sensors to collect data. People can download the app or view their website tosee real time radiation information. Has plans to expand to air pollution data collection.

http://www.evreka.co/

http://www.smartbin.com/

http://www.safecast.org/


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BuildingIQ [Foster City, 2009]: BuildingIQ is an energy management software company forcommercial buildings. BuildingIQ’s suite of software offerings utilizes Predictive EnergyOptimization which forecasts energy demand and automatically adjusts a building’s HVAC settingsto continuously optimize energy use and peak loads. BuildingIQ works with existing building energymanagement systems and utility demand response systems, and incorporates weather forecasts,occupant comfort, utility prices and demand response signals in its optimization algorithms. Thecompany has been honored as Winner of the AIRAH Award for Excellence in Innovation, Tech23’sGreatest Potential Award, Red Herring’s Asia 100 Award and most recently, Environmental Design +Construction and Sustainable Facility’s Readers’ Choice Award and Connectivity Week’s BuildyAward.

$11.7MAster Capital, Siemens Venture Capital, Paladin Capital Group

Cuculus [Ilmenau, 2007]: Cuculus is a supplier of platform solutions for Smart Metering and SmartHome in Germany. Solutions for smart metering include devices and data management platforms.Smart home solutions include smart heating, EEG control, ZONOS platform which can interact withvarious sensors and provides an API for third party device manufacturers to be integrated on theplatform.

$3.54MKfW Bankengruppe, Hoppinger BV,

High-Tech Gruenderfonds, T-Venture

carbonTRACK [Hawthorn, 2010]: carbonTRACK is an intelligent technology that adjusts the poweruse of individual households and businesses to save money, and the environment. It istechnologically agnostic and connects with various devices supporting different protocols. It alsohas application in solar installations giving generation and consumption to help maintain theefficiency of operation.

$3.1M

http://www.buildingiq.com/

http://www.cuculus.net/

http://www.carbontrack.com.au/




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Igor [Des Moines, 2013]: Unique Power Over Ethernet Lighting Platform which gives intelligentcontrol over building's entire lighting system with drastic energy savings. It also has an intelligentsoftware platform that intuitively and intelligently controls through on associated devices.

$2.5M

EnergyDeck [London, 2011]: EnergyDeck is a web-based platform that helps owners, occupiers andservice providers run buildings better. Users can track a wide range of building related metrics(including energy, water, waste and environmental parameters) and analyse data to driveoperational benefits. They raised some funds through crowd funding on Angels den.

$200k

Callida Energy [New York City, 2010]: Callida Energy offers software that optimizes facilitiesperformance to reduce carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency. The Callida solution learnsbuilding energy use patterns and creates an optimal building control strategy based on customerrequirements, making it simpler to optimize energy and continuously improve performance.

DreamIt Ventures

Be Power Tech, Inc. [Fort Lauderdale, 2013]: Produces a natural gas powered air conditioner thatproduces electricity. It claims to reduce building cooling costs by 70% and through efficiency, lowcost fuel (in USA) and production of electricity.

http://www.igor-tech.com/

http://www.energydeck.com/

http://www.callidaenergy.com/

http://www.bepowertech.com/




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Nuleds [Vista, 2011]: System to utilize IEEE standardized Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) to power andcontrol lights, and enable lighting as a service (LaaS). The system is also a platform for hostingsensors to gather building data of all sorts (occupancy, light levels, temperature, humidity, etc).WithNuLEDs technology, lighting can be powered over Ethernet, using low-voltage Cat5 cable. LED lightfixtures get an IP address, interact with networked sensors, devices, and mobile users, and becomefully programmable. Further, NuLEDs system expands the IT network to all corners of a buildingallowing interaction with all services and users of the network.

Smart Locus, Inc. [Walnut Creek, 2011]: Smart Locus software automatically manages and controlsBMS systems in real time. The solution claims to reduce office building HVAC energy by 70%-80%while improving occupants comfort. It also provides predictive machine learning technology whichprotects BMS component failure risk.

Silvair [San Francisco, 2011]: Silvair (formerly known as Seedlabs) is a wireless technology formanufacturers that empowers them to build cutting-edge, smart lighting products. It provides end-to-end services for manufacturers for making the devices connected. It provides a mesh network sothat the devices can communicate with each other. The data generated from this could be used forproviding various services and also improve the devices.

Sensing-labs [Montpellier, 2014]: Offers long range wireless sensors solutions for Smart Metering,Intelligent building and Smart City markets by way of a standard range of products as well asspecific wireless sensors development based on customers demands.

http://www.nuleds.com/

http://www.smartlocus.com/

http://www.silvair.com/

http://www.sensing-labs.com/




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TEQ Charging [Atlanta, 2015]: TEQ Charging is building an intelligent power strip for electricvehicles. By redirecting electricity using patent pending algorithms and system topology, they claimto increase accessibility to charging for drivers. The driver has to provide the time and the chargingthat the vehicle needs and TEQ charging manages the charging on the line accordingly.

Energyworx [Amsterdam, 2012]: Provides a platform for gathering data using APIs, storage andflexibility to have data in value context driven data points. The analytics engine ensures that uniqueactionable insights are isolated and highlighted. It is used by utility companies to understandbehavioural insights of the consumers and create customized pricing plans.

Enoro [Oslo, 2012]: Enoro is a software provider of Smart Energy management, offering a completesoftware chain in the meter-to-cash portfolio of small to large energy utilities. It provides meterdata management which is an important part of the Advanced Meter Management in smart grids. Italso provides energy data management for enterprises to manage and predict their energyconsumption. Process Vision Oy, Elis AS and Popkorn AS were merged to form Enoro as a leadingsoftware provider for smart grid utility companies. Each company has about 20 years of experiencebefore merging.

Aidon [Null, 2004]: Provides smart metering solutions for automated metering. Aidon’s offeringcovers applications and services that utilise metering information to improve energy utilities’efficiency in their daily operations and business processes.

http://www.teqcharging.com/

http://www.energyworx.com/

http://www.enoro.com/

http://www.aidon.com/




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Cyan Holdings Plc [Swavesey, 2002]: Provides integrated systems and software for the delivery ofmesh based flexible wireless solutions for utility metering and lighting.CyLec is Cyan’s integratedsolution for smart metering deployments, providing a migration path through Automated MeterReading (AMR) to full Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). CyLux is Cyan’s enterprise levellighting control and management system. It enhances the way public lighting is monitored,measured and increases its efficiency.

Street Lighting

Sensity Systems [Sunnyvale, 2010]: Sensity Systems (formerly Xeralux) offers a high-speed,sensor-based, multiservice, open networking platform known as a Light Sensory Network (LSN). Byembedding networking technology and sensors within LED luminaires, Sensity uses energy-efficientLED lighting as the foundation for its turnkey NetSense platform. This enables facility and municipallighting owners to link energy efficiency and cost savings as well as serving as the infrastructure forsmart parking, lighting, retail analytics, and security solutions. Has multiple customers includingFortune 500 businesses as well as municipal and regional agencies. Cisco has partnered with Sensityto use their network as a foundation for Cisco’s City Infrastructure Management (CIM) software.

$43M

Mohr Davidow Ventures, Cisco Investments, Acuity Brands, Simon Venture Group, L.P., GE Ventures,

Trinity Capital Investment

Street Lighting

Petra Systems [South Plainfield, 2006]: Petra Systems (previously Petra Solar), offers advancedstreet lighting solutions based on sola power and also solutions for smart cities. The companyoffers smart light controller, grid-connected solar power generator, wireless networking capabilitieswith multiple bandwidth options, support for surveillance & sensor networks, networkgateways and battery backup. The company acquired EnergyFlow Consulting in Jordan in October of2011. Petra Systems completed the Middle East’s smart solar project in Bahrain in June 2014.

$40MEspírito Santo Ventures, OnPoint

Technologies, Craton Equity Partners

Street Lighting

Telensa [Great Chesterford, 2007]: Telensa makes wireless smart city control applications deployedfor Smart lighting, smart parking and smart cities. Telensa PLANet is the market-leading CentralManagement System (CMS) for smart streetlights that can be deployed in cities and controlled atcentre location. They provided their solutions for 55,000 LED Streetlights in Gloucestershire UK.

$18METF Venture Capital, SVB Financial

Group

http://www.cyantechnology.com/

http://www.sensity.com/

http://www.petrasystems.com/

http://www.telensa.com/




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Street Lighting

TOTUS Solutions [Austin, 2009]: Totus-Solutions offers outdoor lighting-based security platformsfor security grid solutions. Solutions include, LED-based lighting, security, surveillance, and controlsystems; and the Guardian Security Platform, a LED lighting platform for security grids that enablesIP video surveillance and sensor systems to monitor pedestrian and vehicular traffic, and campusactivity.The company serves federal, state, and local government agencies; and private institutions.

$16.8M

Street Lighting

LED Roadway Lighting [Halifax, 2002]: LED Roadway Lighting (LRL) is the designer andmanufacturer of LED (light-emitting diode) based street, roadway and area lighting fixtures andcontrol systems. Their control system allows geographic-specific dimming schedules and improvedmonitoring. Has partnered with OnRamp wireless and Silver Spring Networks to offer to make theirlighting system act as the base network for other smart city services such as vehicle charging, video,water meter reading etc. Acquired Streetlight Intelligence in November of 2011.

$13.5M Cycle Capital Management

Street Lighting

Streetlight.Vision [Paris, 2005]: Streetlight Vision provides solutions for street light monitoring andcontrol. Its solutions are compatible with standards so that it can work with various partners. It alsoprovides consultancy services to cities and integrators in this field.

Street Lighting

SmartNodes [Ougree, 2014]: Innovative Control for Outdoor Lighting. It allows to use street lightingat minimum output and turn it at full strength only on detection of people or cars, whilemaintaining visual comfort. It helps in reduction of electricity consumption, remote control andadvanced statistics of the electricity usage.

http://www.totus-solutions.com/

http://www.ledroadwaylighting.com/

http://www.streetlight-vision.com/

http://www.smartnodes.be/




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Street Lighting

Inesocompany [Fontaine, 2012]: Provides a smart street lighting system integrated with networkwith easy maintenance. It has features for smart advertising and notifications and self-repaircapabilities. Sensors to detect different scenarios and adjust lighting accordingly. It claims to save30% on operation cost and 50% on electricity due to LED lighting.

Street Lighting

entilo [Bangalore, 2013]: Entilo, by iRam Technologies, provides smart home and smart lightingsolutions. The cloud enabled smart home solutions come with wifi enabled smart switches,proximity detection, capacitative touch. The connected devices can be monitored through amobile/tablet based application. Users can also create schedules as well as group lights using theapplication. Smart lighting solutions are designed for public spaces with a smart mesh framework,integrated with google maps for easy location and internet enabled to be controlled through anapp. Claims to have raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from strategic investors in 2010.

Street Lighting

Wisys Technologies [Bangalore, 2013]: Wisys Technologies is a provider of M2M technologies thatenables consumers to monitor and control street lighting usage based on the requirements. Itstechnology platform based on Zigbee wireless technology, provides solutions for but not limited tocold storage, street lights and smart homes. Wireless Node, Zigbee Gateway and a web basedsoftware are of the products offered for capabilities such as remote light control and management,run-time dimming, schedule based dimming, analytics and machine diagnostics among others.

Street Lighting

Lumnex [Poitiers, 2011]: Provides ballasts fitted in electric lamp posts for remotely managinglighting by authorities. The manager can control the switching on and off of specific lamps. Also,there is mechanism using traffic sensing to dim the lights to save energy.

http://www.inesocompany.com/

http://www.entilo.com/

http://www.wisystech.com/

http://www.lumnex.com/




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Street Lighting

ICE Gateway [Berlin, 2012]: ICE Gateway integrates LED lamps with communication and controlelectronics. Company's products decreases energy consumption enabling exact timing of turningproducts on and off and dimming abilities. The cloud based services for lights enable the remotecontrol and remote maintenance of single or group of lights via web and app services.

Street Lighting

TwistHDM [Holland, 2008]: TwistHDM provides smart lights that allow administrators to controllights at an per device level wirelessly. It adjusts the levels of outdoor light output based on theamount of natural light, movement and settings using data from sensors. Has announced anexclusive alliance with Philips, under which their technology will be integrated into Philips OutdoorLED luminaries. Spin-off of Twisthink. Has added analytics and security features as well. Primarilytargets parking services.

Street Lighting

Illuminating Concepts [Farmington Hills, 1981]: Illuminating Concepts offers smart lightingsolutions that retro fit onto street lights and allow a variety of control and monitoring options.Features include: energy management (dimming and thermal management along with remotecontrol), security (embedded emergency call buttons, audio alerts, emergency routing capabilities)and entertainment (dynamic lights and music broadcast). It also supports integration with externalsensors as well.

Street Lighting

ScotiaLigh [Copenhagen, 2009]: Scotialight makes stand alone and grid-tied solar columns thatgenerate renewable energy for export to the gird during the day and use power only at night (usesan on board battery for storage as well). They also have an optional cloud based remotemanagement system with remote dimming controls, energy monitoring and data export. Anoptional motion detection system with occupation based operation is also available.

http://www.ice-gateway.com/

http://www.twisthdm.com/

http://www.intellistreets.com/

http://www.scotialight.com/




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Street Lighting

Cityntel [Tallinn, 2012]: Cityntel (spinoff of Defendec) offers smart street lighting solutions. Theirlighting solution includes features such as: simple installation, dimming, time & location basedcontrol, rules based control. All the controls are supported by web dashboard that allows theautomation and displays data such as power consumption, working hours, total time rules havebeen in effect etc. External sensors are also supported. Has been installed in Estonia, Finland,Germany and Denmark.

Street Lighting

Tvilight [Groningen, 2011]: Tvlight offers sensor controlled outdoor lighting solutions. Based ontheir patented presence detection solution, their products offer on-demand lighting. Their solutionis suitable for both existing (PLL, SON, HID) as well as new LED outdoor lamps. The sensors areZigbee based. They also offer software for controlling and setting the lights. Features include:context specific lighting levels, detection patterns and lamp failure detection as well as an openplatform that can interface with hardware from other providers. Expected savings of up to 80%. Hasmultiple customers in Germany and Netherlands.

Electricity

FirstFuel Software [Lexington, 2011]: FirstFuel Software offers building wide energy analytics thathelps utilities and government agencies deliver energy efficiency across commercial buildingportfolios. Using only electric interval meter data and a building address, FirstFuel produces aremote set of building-specific performance benchmarks and custom recommendations thatutilities and government agencies can provide to building operators – without the use of onsiteassessments or device installations. Customers include E.ON, Southern California Edison (SCE), theU.S. Gov. and DOD.

$44MBattery Ventures, Nth Power,

RockPort Capital Partners, E.ON, Next World Capital

Electricity

Enefgy [Madrid, 2008]: Enefgy is a platform for storing, managing and analyzing the hourlyconsumption of electricity. An innovative technology service, allows any organization to know theirconsumption in detail, helping to identify and prioritize energy efficiency initiatives . Enefgy is usedby companies of all sizes that provide energy efficiency management and internal departmentssuch as maintenance and management of large energy companies.

€920k Caixa Capital Risc

http://www.cityntel.com/

http://www.tvilight.com/

http://www.firstfuel.com/

http://www.enefgy.com/




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Electricity

Connode [Null, 2010]: Connode has developed the concept of radio mesh networking into a telco-grade communication solution for Smart Metering and other demanding M2M applications. Itworks with numerous utility companies in Scandinavian region. The networking technology is idealfor large scale deployment for metering in smart grids. Connode AB is owned by CapMan, a leadingNordic investment company with approx. €3.5 billion in capital.

Analytics

Verdigris [Moffett Field, 2011]: Verdigris Building.AI is cloud analytics software for enterprisefacilities managers and large commercial buildings. It allows them to optimize operations, increasefacility uptime, and save on energy costs. Building.AI is a machine learning analytics SAAS platformand embedded wireless sensor that enables real-time identification, disaggregation, and analysis ofthe loads in buildings, providing insights about behaviour and usage.

$8.2M

Analytics

INTELEN [Brooklyn, 2011]: Provides tools that transform real – time energy data into informationthat makes sense and drives energy consumption reduction and efficiency through longengagement. Provides a data logger to accurately capture energy consumption data and a series ofsmart algorithms that analyze, process, correlate and disaggregate that data, combining it withhistorical, weather, occupancy, usage and behavioral records to identify with accuracy andprecision where and how energy is consumed, wasted and put into good use, suggest more efficientbehaviors.

$2.81M

Analytics

kWIQly [Bern, 2008]: The company develops kWIQly - Building Energy Intelligence. It interpretsautomated meter readings to identify energy waste and provides actionable insights into ways orreducing it. It helps automating energy audits of buildings and is self-adapting to climate andoperational states.

http://www.connode.com/

http://www.verdigris.co/

http://www.intelen.com/

http://www.kwiqly.com/




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Analytics

GreenAnt [Rio De Janeiro, 2014]: GreenAnt is a analytics company focused on efficient resourcemanagement. With bleeding edge algorithms, it provides detailed consumption profiles perappliance, efficiency benchmarks compared to the neighbourhood, smart alerts and bill projection.It started with crowdfunding for seed capital. Space Time Analytics has agreed for a minority equitystake in GreenAnt.

Analytics

Watty [Stockholm, 2012]: Provides a energy management product which gives data about theusage of energy by various appliances in the building. Uses machine learning to understand whichare the major energy consuming areas and gives suggestions for smart energy usage using machinelearning.

Analytics

SangamTech [Petah Tikva, 2013]: LeanCiti (a product of SangamTech), has developed a data miningand social network based smart energy solution for cutting energy costs and reducing greenhousegas emissions in cities. By using social platforms, gamification and artificial intelligence, user'screate and observe their personal energy profile, and and attempt to reduce it. In addition byrunning real-time decision and algo-trading tool, the city can determine the optimal source ofenergy at the best price/time. IBM Israel accelerator alumni.

Street Lighting

Citylight [Latvia, 2009]: Citylight is the main product of Teliko, a Latvia based technologydevelopment company. Citylight is an intelligent street light management system with bothsoftware and hardware. It provides is as white label so that it can be used by other integrators. Thesoftware is able to communicate with other smart city products and it claims to have installations inover 70 cities in 16 countries.

http://www.greenant.com.br/

http://www.watty.io/

http://www.leanciti.com/

http://www.citylight.net/


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Gogoro [Taipei, 2011]: Gogoro develops and sells electric scooters and battery swappinginfrastructure. Its main product is Gogoro Smartscooter - an electric scooter designed for urbantransportation. In addition to this, Gogoro has also designed a battery swapping infrastructure -Gogoro Energy Network. In Nov. 2015, Gororo raised $130M Series B round led by Dr. Samuel Yin,Chairman of Ruentex Group with participation from Panasonic Group & National DevelopmentFund of Taiwan.

$180M Panasonic Corp.

ChargePoint [Campbell, 2007]: ChargePoint (formerly Coulomb Technologies (CT)) is an electricvehicle infrastructure company that offers a network of public charging stations. ChargePointoperates EV charging network and also designs, builds, and supports the technology that powers it.

$114M

Estag Capital, Harbor Pacific Capital, Rho Capital Partners, Voyager Capital,

Siemens Venture Capital, The Hartford, Rho Ventures, Kleiner

Perkins Caufield & Byers, Braemar Energy Ventures

Changing Environments [Cambridge, 2014]: Their first product is Soofa (from ChangingEnvironments) is a smart Internet connected, solar-powered park bench. The benches have USBports in which user's can use to charge their devices. and upload local environmental data such asair quality and noise levels. Has multiple installations in Boston and Cambridge. Spin-off from MIT'smedia lab.

$1M

Strawberry energy [Belgrade, 2011]: Strawberry energy has develops and installs solar trees underthe brand 'Strawberry Tree', a solar powered furniture under the brand 'Strawberry Bench' whichcan be used to charge devices. The company also develops 'Strawberry Mini' which is a portablesolar mobile charger and 'Strawberry Mini Rural' a suitcase like portable panel which can be carriedanywhere. The company has installed Strawberry Tree in 9 different cities in Europe and had morethan 351,000 users.

$113k Eleven

http://www.gogoro.com/

http://www.chargepoint.com/

http://www.changing-environments.com/

http://www.senergy.rs/


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Watly [Mataro, 2013]: Watly is a renewable energy company, based in Eindhoven and Barcelona.Watly combines a solar water purifier and a micro power station. It is composed of a thermal solarand a photovoltaic panels with a combined peak power of almost 5kW. It acts as an integratedutility machine that desalinates and purifies water, provides free electricity and allows Internetconnectivity (4G through a pay-as-you go system) by harvesting solar energy.

$17k Startupbootcamp

Soofa [Cambridge, 2014]: Soofa (from Changing Environments) is a smart Internet connected,solar-powered park bench. The benches have USB ports in which user's can use to charge theirdevices. The benches are also connected wirelessly to the Internet to upload local environmentaldata such as air quality and noise levels, as well as information on how much energy is beinggenerated. Has multiple installations in Boston and Cambridge.

http://www.watly.co/

http://www.soofa.co/


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Connecthings [Paris, 2007]: CONNECTHINGS provides NFC tag, QR codes and iBeacon solutions.From NFC tag customization and delivery to tag server solution, the company's software solution,AdTag, enables MNO, device manufacturers, outdoor advertisers, public authorities, museums,retailers and brands to create and adapt contextual NFC services, analysis of NFC tags usage and tomanage tags and application life cycles. It is used by Barcelona Smart City project to give contextualpublic data like bus schedule when one arrives at the bus stop.

$10.6MXerys, Groupe Siparex, CALAO

FINANCE

Cityzenith [Chicago, 2009]: Cityzenith aggregates data from sources such as: public (Open Data),IoT and M2M (real-time operational) and citizens (Social Media) and makes it available through astandard and open platform. They also have a facility to build apps called 5D smart apps thatleverage this data in the form of apps. An app marketplace is available as well (5D Smart AppMarket). Their product is not publicly available as of late Dec. 2014. Has announced partnershipswith Amsterdam, Barcelona, and San Francisco to develop apps for their respective cities.

$6.2M Mumbai Angels, Sequoia Capital

Flexeye [Guildford, 2005]: Flexeye offers middleware solutions for IoT and Smart Cities. TheirEyehub service provides a sensor and data integration service. Features include: extensible library,Hypercat compliant, analytics & visualization, data security, mobile client (iOS and Android)and a webservice API. They are also the leaders behind the Hypercat standard (set up by a group of40 UK-based tech firms, including IBM, ARM and BT), a specification that lets applications querydata hubs about its contents and the permission required to use them. As part of the Innovate UKinitiative, local councils (London, Bristol and Milton Keynes) will use Hypercat to underpin IoTprojects involving smart bins, smart metering and smart lights among others. Has offices inHyderabad, India. Flexeye has been recognized by Gartner as a ‘Cool Vendor’ for ‘Eyehub’. Clientsinclude: BP, Cosworth, EMI, Inchape, Imperial Tobacco, Jaguar Land Rover, Lloyds Banking Group,Mars, the Ryder Cup & Symantec.

$4.46M KPMG US

http://www.connecthings.com/

http://www.cityzenith.com/

http://www.flexeye.com/


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APPCityLife [Albuquerque, 2009]: Appcity life is a developer platform that enables developmentand deployment of apps for mobile, open data, beacon and wearable across cities empowering civicbodies, non profits, schools enterprises to push apps. Additionally it also provides open data serverto upload data and analytic server to track app usage. Appcity life raised $1.1M in seed fundingfrom Moodoos Sedona Limited in August 2015. APPCityLife was a finalist in Venture Beat's 2010 "20Hottest Startups" competition. In 2013 Appcity life acquired OnQueue Technologies a mobilepublishing platform.

$1.53M

Greenbird [Oslo, 2010]: Greenbird Integration Technology provides Metercloud, a hybrid cloudplatform for big data integration applications empowering the smart grid, smart city and theindustrial IoT. Metercloud is targeting enterprise customers such as utilities, municipalities orprocess oriented industries who utilize a network of connected things to gain operationalexcellence, process intelligence and resource efficiency. Provides the pipelines and integrationengine to transport data, refine it, distribute it and monetize it

144.06k

TERAKI [Berlin, 2014]: Teraki's software solution works as an enabler for current and futureIoT/M2M applications. It claims that its solutions reduces the amount of data generated by sensorsby up to a factor 10 without compromising its quality. This is core for current applications such theas real-time energy monitoring of buildings or the real-time transmission of sensor data inSmartCity applications and could enable new applications. It was recently added to hub:raumportfolio which is a venture arm of Deutsche Telekom.

€15k Startupbootcamp

Blueforce [Newburyport, 2005]: Software platform which allows easy formation of groups andsharing information for emergency response systems like military operations, critical infrastructureprotection in cities, fire or attack response systems, etc. It also incorporates sensor datainformation and GPS services to provide a real time system for quicker and better emergencyresponse management.

http://www.appcitylife.com/

http://www.greenbird.com/

http://www.teraki.com/

http://www.blueforcedev.com/


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ConnectYourThings [San Mateo, 2015]: ConnectingYourThings is an actionable data platform forIoT. It claims to be function driven than technology driven. It provides a UPnP platform and an evendriven CYTIoT platform. It provides easy implementation and support for various protocols withdata analytics.

MeshWorks Wireless [Tampere, 2007]: MeshWorks Wireless brings complete, verticallyintegrated, WSN based solutions to enterprise markets. It is primarily targeted towards and coldchain and supply chain markets. It provides sensors, gateways, clouds and software for the entiresystem of wirelessly communicating data to cloud so that data can be accessed through web orsmartphone. It also provides platform for indoor air quality monitoring, electric vehicles monitoringand fleet management and Zigbee based home automation platform

Yanzi Networks [Kista, 2007]: Software and networking platform for Internet of Things. Itcollaborates with leading vendors to provide solutions in real estate, facility management and smartbuildings. The products include gateways, LEDs, cameras, motion sensors, etc. which are connectedto the IoT platform.

iBot [Hyderabad, 2011]: Provider of IoT based products and platform for individuals andbusinesses. Offers Smartiverse, an industrial offering comprising of smart device platforms, appsand cloud platform with integrated analytics. Finds its application in asset management,manufacturing, transport, supply chain management among others. Its consumer solution,BeesandBots is yet to be launched. Based out of Las Vegas, US and Hyderabad, India.

http://www.cytiot.com/

http://www.meshworkswireless.com/

http://www.yanzinetworks.com/

http://www.iamibot.com/


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ElectricFeel [Zurich, 2012]: Intelligent software converts shared mobility system into a profitabletransportation business with higher service level and more user trips. The software providesplanning and management for on-demand mobility. It works with both mobility providers and cityofficials.

Ethos Smart [Merstham, 2010]: Provides services for managing city resources effectively usingadvanced technologies. Current services include city performance dashboards, open data services,Future Cities parking, integrated renewable energy solutions and smart city programmeimplementation frameworks. The projects are usually done in collaboration with other companiesand funded by government projects. It is a part of Ethos VO consulting firm.

Opticits [Barcelona, 2012]: Spin off of IQS School of Engineering and Management. OptiCitsdevelops a scalable technological platform to help city managers & urban service providers toassess & manage Resilience in cities. Currently developing the HAZUR SYSTEM, a CityResilience Management Platform for city managers, urban services operators and consultancyengineering companies to assess and manage Resilience. The platform helps in assessing andplanning for resilience with real time updates from urban sensors.

Cityzen Data [Paris, 2008]: Cityzen Data provides a scalable, secure, ethical and open platform forsensor data. Their platform allows devices to aggregate sensor data in a database and performexports and data analysis. Features include NoSQL GeoTime series database, data manipulationthough the Einstein language, a HTTP API and a data visualization platform. This platform istargeted at smart cities in particular for waste disposal, public transport, security and othermunicipal services. Has signed a cooperation agreement with the University of Shanghai (UTSEUSLab) to develop common research on Smart City issues.

http://www.electricfeel.com/

http://www.ethossmart.com/

http://www.opticits.com/

http://www.cityzendata.com/


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AGT International [Zurich, 2007]: AGT International offers CityMIND platform. It automates andintegrates with existing systems and add capabilities through software upgrades. Applicationsinclude: intelligent parking control, fully integrated traffic management system (allows foroptimized flow of cars and trucks), smart streetlights (optimize energy consumption, capture andanalyze emissions data), real-time surveillance & analytics (for law enforcement and threatdetection) and port monitoring. They also offer IoTA, a modular, open, cloud-based platform for IoTapplication developers that delivers IoT-specific analytics, data management and visualizationcapabilities. Has partnered with Cisco in implementing Hamburg's Smart City pilot projects (smarttraffic, smart street lighting, remote citizen services and port operations).

Arnium Technologies [Kanpur, 2012]: Arnium is a start-up based at SIDBI Innovation IncubationCenter IIT Kanpur. It is engaged in developing smart city platforms. It offers web platforms, habitatnetworking, e-governance, smart devices and data analytics. Some of their automation productsinclude biometric based attendance system; air quality monitoring system and IMU. Provides acomplaint management system for cities, campuses and organizations to better manage complaintsarising from the customers or users. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh.

Sensor

FiberSensing [Maia, 2004]: FiberSensing provides automated solutions for structural monitoringthat range from sensor measurements to data analysis. It develops, sells, and supports fiber optic-based sensors and measurement units, and data management software. It uses Fiber Bragg Gratingsensors offer intrinsic multiplexing capability that allows the concatenation of various transducersin a single optical fiber. It serves construction, aeronautic, and wind, nuclear, and oil and gas energymarkets. The company has a strategic partnership with Gavea Sensors for the joint development ofnew products and commercialization of the companies' product portfolio. It was acquired by HBMTest & Measurement in October 2014.

$3.11M InovCapital

http://www.agtinternational.com/

http://www.arnium.com/

http://www.fibersensing.com/


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VIMOC Technologies [Mountain View, 2012]: VIMOC Technologies offers hardware and softwaresolutions based on their platform (Landscape Computing) that provides a network of low power,connected computing engines that form a wireless grid of computers to support real-timeactionable analytics, processing, cooperation and data mining. It pushes processed data to theCloud to drive web services and applications over different verticals via their API. Being piloted inPalo Alto and Newcastle as wireless vehicle parking-detection sensors to better manage on-streetparking.

$2.4MMorado Venture Partners, Flextronics

Lab IX

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SenSen Networks [Melbourne, 2011]: Developed the SenDISA platform - a highly accurate IoTanalytics platform that is Cloud ready for delivering Sensor-Analytics-as-a-Service (SAaaS). It iscapable of taking inputs from a variety of sources like cameras, sensors, etc. and provides fusion ofall the diverse data to give meaningful insights. The platform can be used to provide various smartcity applications and has few cities across the globe as clients.

Sensor

Libelium [Zaragoza, 2006]: Libelium is a wireless sensor network platform provider that delivers,open-source, low-power consumption devices that can be implemented for Smart Cities solutionsand a wide range of M2M and sensor projects. Libelium’s products are modular, horizontal andeasy to integrate into third-party systems. Its platform 'Waspmote' works with different protocols(ZigBee, Bluetooth, 3G/GPRS) and frequencies (2.4GHz, 868MHz, 900MHz) and is capable ofcommunicating over long distances (up to 12 km) while maintaining low power consumption .Provides step-by-step tutorials to help developers build and create internet of things connecteddevices. Their Waspmote Plug & Sense wireless sensors are included in Telefónica’s SmartCities solutions portfolio, powering applications such as traffic management, water quality, security,environmental control, and agriculture monitoring.

http://www.vimoctechnologies.com/

http://www.sensennetworks.com/

http://www.libelium.com/


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Data Visualization

The CoSMo Company [Lyon, 2010]: The Cosmo Company provides software solutions and servicesdedicated to complex systems. Their software is used to develop models in various fields includingcities, pharmaceutical industry, logistics and security. Their solutions model and simulate urbanplanning, emergency responses preparation and critical systems robustness assessment. Incombination with Esri its solution can be used to model and simulate the impact of new urbaninfrastructure This allows users to evaluate the systemic impact of infrastructure decisions on thecity key performance indicators such as congestion, real estate prices, GHG emissions and noise(tested by performing this study on the city of Versailles).

$5.2M Sofimac Partners, Aster Capital

Data Visualization

Cyberlightning [Oulu, 2010]: Cyberlightning enables a new way to utilize and visualize the big dataof sensor networks. Controlling and monitoring of networks becomes natural and user friendlywhen accessing buildings, utility infrastructure and health care sector with mobile devices and 3Dmodels of the actual live environment and objects. CyberLightning's main product is CyberVille, theend-to-end software platform that combines BigData and 3D visualization that allows corporatecustomers to capture data from numerous sensors and measurement points, analyze the captureddata, and present it in business intelligence dashboards. CyberLightning is a member of IPSO(Internet Protocol for Smart Objects) Alliance and a Tizen Association partner.

$4.2M Inventure Oy, Tekes

Data Visualization

Plenar.io [Chicago, 2014]: Plenar.io (a product of Datamade) is a data platform where all data inexists on a single map and timeline, allowing easy access to multiple datasets at once.Data sourcesavailable includes city data portals, U.S. federal government and individual datasets. All data pointsare also automatically connected to their census block and local weather as well. Supports accessby both coding as well as simple export.

Data Visualization

DataMade [Chicago, 2013]: Datamade offers a range software and services related to visualizingand using data related to cities. Products include: Geomancer (Add geographically-related data tospreadsheets), Plenar.io (an open source platform, API and interface for exploring and filteringopen data through space and time). Also offers services to train and help staff on the big dataanalysis and visualization tools. Clients include multiple Chicago companies.

http://www.thecosmocompany.com/

http://www.cyberlightning.com/

http://www.plenar.io/

http://www.datamade.us/


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Nextnav [Sunnyvale, 2008]: NextNav develops location enabling technology that brings accuratelocation service, into buildings and urban areas where satellite based signals cant reach. They havedeveloped their own carrier grade network antennas that help with indoor location. They use theseterrestrially based transmitters to locate with a 20m horizontal accuracy and 2 m vertical accuracy.Owing to the high signal strength, NextNav is able to provide a location in below 5 seconds. It worksalongside GPS in devices and requires no new technical integration to be done.

$89.2MNew Enterprise Associates, OAKVC, Columbia Capital, Goldman Sachs

MyCityWay [New York City, 2009]: Mobile first platform which senses the micro-location throughbeacon or other sensor data and can be used to provide contextual information. Marketers can alsouse it for hyper-local context driven marketing campaigns. It can be used in smart cars, connectedTV as well allowing marketers to drive campaigns across smart devices. The public authorities coulduse it to provide data such as bus schedules, maps, etc. and can be used to provide informationabout the place for tourists. All founders except one have moved on from the company.

$6MIA Ventures, FirstMark Capital, NYC

EDC

TrafficCast [Madison, 1999]: TrafficCast International engages develops technologies, applications,and content based on digital traffic data to provide travel time forecasting and traffic information.company uses accident reports, weather conditions, road sensors and the global positioning systemfor its reports. Trafficcast analyzes real time data from over 450,000 miles of roadways in UnitedStates. In 2009 navigation system provider TomTom NV signed a deal with Trafficcast to providereal-time information about traffic, weather patterns and the cheapest nearby gasoline toTomTom's first wireless navigation device.

$3.75MCeres Venture Fund, NEW Capital

Fund, Phenomenelle Angels, Women Angels

http://www.nextnav.com/

http://www.mycityway.com/

http://www.trafficcast.com/


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SenionLab [Linkoping, 2010]: SenionLab is a company focusing on research and development ofsignal processing and sensor fusion systems for indoor positioning navigation and mapping.SenionLab provides a pedestrian indoor navigation system intend to work in indoor environmentsuch as shopping malls, governamental institutions, universities, hospitals, museums and airports.The indoor navigation solution is delivered as a separate software module together with anApplication Programming Interface (API) that can be integrated into third-party iOS (iPhone, iPad)and Android location based mobile applications. Navigation and positioning is based only on thesensors available on the mobile device. SEB venture capital, the Swedish bank SEB's arm announced$1.8 mn funding to the company to strengthen its position in the Indoor Location Positioningmarket.

$1.8M SEB

Ifinity [Warsaw, 2014]: Ifinity offers beacons tailor-made for cities, public spaces and commercialclients. Their beacon services help users with: information (city, museum or find their parkingspace), tracking (public transport), navigation (city, university, indoor) and analytics as well ascontextual shopping for retailers. Has developed an energy harvesting beacon that does not requirea power source (Available December 2014). Customers include the city of Warsaw (city office,public transport, museums and galleries).

$1M SpeedUp Venture Capital Group

Sensorberg [Berlin, 2013]: Sensorberg is based on Apple's iBeacon proximity technology andincludes features such as: an advanced Beacon Management Platform, SDKs, beacon hardware andprofessional consulting services for clients. Sensorberg enables mobile app publishers, serviceproviders and location owners to create and send marketing and service notifications tosmartphone users near points of interest. These notifications may correspond to specifically pre-arranged services such ticketless check-in, indoor navigation, latest offers, sales discounts orcashless payments. Part of the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Berlin.The ability to pre-defineand measure these services helps retailers carefully track performance and maintain real-timevisibility into the business.

$1M

http://www.senionlab.com/

http://www.getifinity.com/

http://www.sensorberg.com/


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Aquabit Spirals [Tokyo, 2009]: Smart Plate is a programmable "Physical Bookmark” on the IoTwhich connects things or places to the internet with no app. Plates delivers varied digital content onsmartphones with just simply tapping action via NFC or QR code, and are trackable and controllableover-the-air on the app. It's capable of being overwritten repeatedly. The plates can be used onproducts and with NFC can take to a web page on smartphone. It could also be used at culturalcentres, city tours, public information, etc.

$330k

Genius Matcher [Haifa, 2013]: The company owes 3 patents pending on a solution for indoornavigation, combining computer vision with 3D technology to create one platform for mapping,positioning and navigating in any indoor location. The platform is fully dynamic, managed in thecloud and displayed on all mobile devices. The technology is hardware independent and also helpsin contextualising venues. Incubated at Wayra.

Gina Software [Brno, 2010]: It is a mobile based GIS system for co-ordination of various serviceslike police, fire, ambulance, etc. during emergency situations. It uses GPS tracking devices, cameras,drones and a central control room for providing these services through smartphone apps. It waspart of JIC startup accelerator program.

Locusense [Kista, 2014]: Locusense technology finds location and orientation of objects in awireless network. It uses relatively fewer anchor nodes. It can be used for geo-fencing of thedevices in locusense network, indoor navigation. It is a SICS spin-off.

http://www.spirals.co.jp/

http://www.geniusmatcher.com/

http://www.ginasoftware.com/en

http://www.locusense.com/


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Quantitec [Frankfurt Am Main, 2012]: Develops inertial sensor systems for indoor & outdoornavigation, control- & electronics-development and platform-independent mobileapplications. With IntraNav technology, they offer indoor navigation solutions and services forvarious industries. It is a technology provider including both hardware and software for inertialnavigation and location intelligence solutions. Apart from this it also provides services in sensorintegration and embedded systems.

Beacongrid [Washington D.C., 2014]: BeaconGrid deploys battery-free beacon platforms incommercial buildings. Given the indoor limitations of GPS and Wi-Fi, the BeaconGrid platform letscommercial buildings know who and what's in them so those buildings can now track staff andemployees, adjust room temperatures based on occupancy, and even target mobile notifications tooccupants in a room or particular floor. BeaconOutlet™ is a Bluetooth Proximity Sensor (BPS) similarto a GPS satellite, but designed to work indoors.

SPREO [New York City, 2013]: SPREO uses iBeacon and Wi-Fi to offer accurate indoor navigationservices, location based marketing, venue analytics, mapping and wayfinding. It uses Bluetooth BLEtechnology to deploy indoor navigation and positioning systems and integrate geolocation SDK inindoor GPS apps. It has an R&D lab in Israel.

In.sight [Palermo, 2014]: ARIANNA is a smartphone-based navigation system for visually impairedpeople. By following pre-determined paths located in public places such as airports, shoppingmalls, museums, etc, visually impaired people can move independently in unfamiliar environments.ARIANNA is a flexible, low-cost navigation system which can be used in any indoor/outdoorenvironment, and can provide localization information to any person. The managers of the placeseasily install the tapes, reduce cost of the environment and provide users with an interactive andeasily configurable system.

http://www.quantitec.de/

http://www.beacongrid.com/

http://www.spreo.co/

http://www.insightx.it/


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iGirouette [Lyon, 2015]: It provides smart street signals and a smartphone app. The user has toallow the app to use geo location for it to suggest places nearby as per the user's interest. Once adestination is selected, the user can walk or drive and when he comes near a smart LED streetsignal, the signal recognizes the smartphone and displays directions to the destination. Part ofChavret Digital Media.

Sensebit [Stockholm, 2007]: Sensebit develops products within the wireless sensor networks fieldwith a focus on traffic information. Sensebits web based analytics tool Traffic web monitorsdevelopment in traffic flow using sensors data. Sensebit products are used by traffic authorities,municipalities, cities and private companies to gather and analyze traffic data. Sensebit customersinclude Lund and Nacka city in Sweden.

Points Sign [New York City, 2012]: The Points Sign (by BREAKFAST) is designed to bring connectedstreet signs to cities and businesses. The Points Sign is a completely dynamic digital sign, includingarms that rotate a full 360º and advanced LED displays in each arm and can extract and display datafrom from sources such as Twitter, Foursquare and local transportation APIs. In addition todisplaying relevant transit information (such as when the next train arrives), it also supportscustomized messages through an API allowing emergency broadcasts and other relevantinformation. Will be sold as a rental to cities, transit authorities and conference operators.

Planning

Bumbee labs [Stockholm, 2008]: Beacon based technology to provide insights about customersvisiting shops. The technology is further developed and is now targeted to town centers foranalyzing crowd behaviour and helping in planning of infrastructure and services. It could also beused by shopping complexes, airports, etc.

http://www.igirouette.fr/

http://www.sensebit.se/

http://www.pointssign.com/

http://www.bumbeelabs.com/


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Remix Software [San Francisco, 2014]: Remix builds transportation planning software for publicagencies to design and plan maps, routes, and service. The existing bus lines and demographic dataare used to understand the impact of proposed changes. Ideas can be communicated visually toshow the impact. Previously known as Transmitix. It claims to be used by 50+ cities.

Planning

Bus Checker [London, 2002]: Provides real time bus arrival timings in a countdown fashion. Thedata is usually taken from open APIs provided by transport departments of large cities using GPStracking devices on the buses. Thus real time data about bus arrivals is available on mobile apps.The Bus Checker app is the most popular travel app in London. It has expanded to other citiesglobally and adding new cities. It is owned by Fatattitude Ltd. which is a single person company inLondon. It also produces other apps for Android, Windows and Apple phones.

Planning

Remix Software, Inc. [San Francisco, 2014]: Transitmix offers a web based to help city plannersmake informed decisions when configuring bus routes. Users can find the map of any city and eitherimport existing bus routes or draw their own from scratch. They instantly see the stops, schedules,and cost of individual lines or entire systems. Geospatial census and other such data can be also belayered on top off maps. Has multiple government customers signed-up (such as the state ofOregon). YC alum. Has a 60 day sales cycle with a $1 million run rate.

http://www.getremix.com/

http://www.buschecker.com/

http://www.transitmix.net/


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Space-Time Insight [San Mateo, 2007]: Space Time Insight's technology turns large quantities ofdisparate information into visual displays to enable businesses to visualize and analyze theirresources across location, time, and node, rapidly respond to disruptions in service The companyprovides real time visual analytics software for big data in a range of industries. Clients includeSouthern California Edison, Florida Power & Light, San Diego Gas & Electric andCalifornia’s grid operator among others.

$50MOpus Capital, EnerTech Capital, Novus

Energy Partners, Start Up Farms International, Zouk Capital, NEC, E.ON

Zerocycle [Washington, 2014]: Municipalities pay for every pound of garbage that they collect fromtheir constituent households, and pay less for every pound of recycling. ZeroCycle helpsmunicipalities reduce their solid waste spend by increasing diversion rates. It collects and analyzesgarbage and recycling data for each neighbourhood in a city. The reports are shared with thecommunities. It believes that through a sense of competition and public tracking, people wouldimprove the recycling rates.

$20k

Sensewaves [Paris, 2014]: Sensewaves makes connected assets smarter by transforming rawsensor data into meaningful information via an analytics web service. There initial focus is inproviding context-aware anomaly detection in real-time for industrial, mission-critical applications.They offer time series analytics with applications in water management, smart building, electricityand smart buildings. Features include: impactful insights, customizability, data encryption at theedge and multiple analysis options (like historical, predictive, anomaly and profiling).

Beco [Boston, 2014]: Beco connects mobile to the physical world through battery-free BecoBeacons and hyper-location services. It uses ubiquitious lighting in buildings to harvest energy forthe beacons and captures insights of how people interact with physical spaces.

http://www.spacetimeinsight.com/

http://www.zerocycle.co/

http://www.sensewaves.io/

http://www.beco.io/


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ZenCity [Tel Aviv, 2014]: Platform for city authorities for more data driven decisions. Provides adata platform that takes inputs from various data streams like municipal data, sensor data, citizendata, etc. and provides meaningful insights for policy making.

Kappo - Cyclists Analytics [Santiago, 2013]: For Smart Cities Kappo offers insights and analyticsabout trips made by urban cyclists, enabling better planning and responses to e.g. roadmaintenance, road infrastructure resources and cycle routes. It shows flows, heatmap streets,social feedback and other tools which can help improve the infrastructure for cycling and promotecycling to new adopters. It also offers app to cyclists to plan, group and enjoy their rides.

CityTouch [Dublin, 2013]: CitiTouch offers urban analytics tools that integrates spatial dataprocessing and machine learning, and applies it to geo-referenced social media streams. Featuresinclude: ability to process large volumes of data, interactive approach to exploratory analysis andknowledge discovery, processing and filtering of user-generated text, clustering as well as anomalydetection and content analysis within a geographic area of interest. Demonstrated in the city ofBarcelona (used to analyse location-based social network data). Product is currently underdevelopment.

http://www.zencity.io/

http://www.cyclistsanalytics.com/

http://www.citytouch.biz/


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Silver Spring Networks [Redwood City, 2002]: Silver Spring Networks delivers the open, standards-based networking platform, software and services used by major utilities and cities worldwide tosupport multiple smart grid and smart city applications and services on a single, unified network.Smart Energy Platform™, enabling utilities to improve energy efficiencies, enhance services, andreduce costs. Its networking platform consists of hardware, such as access points and relays; UtilOS,a network operating software; and GridScape management and security software.It has acquiredGreenbox and Detecent in 2009 & 2015 respectively.

$294M

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, Foundation Capital, Northgate Capital, DFJ Growth, Edison

Electric Institute, Hitachi GST

Sigfox [Labege, 2009]: Cellular network operator to provide a low cost data transmission service.Built for low-throughput IoT/M2M. They use UNB (ultra narrowband) radio technology onunlicensed spectrum in Europe (868MHz) and the US (902MHz). Benefits of UNB, include a scalable,high-capacity network with very low energy consumption. Its network covers most of Europe, whilea smaller network covers San Francisco. Also provides a web application interface for devicemanagement and web APIs for automation. Significant customers include Securitas and MAAF.

$148.03M

IDINVEST Partners, Elaia Partners, Intel Capital, Partech Ventures, Bpifrance, IXO Private Equity,

Telefonica, SK Telecom, DoCoMo, GDF SUEZ, Air Liquide Group, Eutelsat,

Elliott Management

Veniam [Mountain View, 2012]: Veniam’s technology creates mesh networks using WiFitransmitters in vehicles. The company offers two products: one aimed at fleet operators to provideWiFi from vehicles, and another to provide wireless Internet access in confined spaces. An examplewould be port operators, who can equip cranes, trucks, and containers with WiFi hardware tocollect data on their operations. They can also harvest data for big data applications. Deployed inPorto, Portugal (their original home city), with 60,000 monthly users over 608 vehicles (publicbuses). Will expand to San Francisco, New York City, and Austin.

$27M

Cane Investments LLC, Union Square Ventures, True Ventures, Verizon

Ventures, Cisco Investments, YMVSV, USV, Cane Investments

Actility [Paris, 2010]: Actility is a French company whose primary product ThingPark, a platform forIoT deployments of varying sizes, from single enterprises through to entire cities. ThingParkprovides the technology to connect both long range and low power sensors over unlicensed ISMband spectrum, allowing low cost and fast roll out of IoT networks for a wide range of IoTapplications. In June 2015 Actility raised $25M in a round led by Foxconn.

$25MGinko Ventures, Foxconn, Orange,

Truffle Capital

http://www.silverspringnet.com/

http://www.sigfox.com/

http://www.veniam.com/

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Altai [Hong Kong, 2006]: The flagship product, the A8 WiFi base station, is mainly deployed inoutdoor environments to provide city-wide or large area WiFi coverage for users to enjoyubiquitous broadband access. This award-winning base station effectively improves the non-line-of-sight WiFi signal coverage to an extended area of 500 meters in radius, by minimizing theinterference effect of other signals in the unlicensed frequency spectrum.

$10MWong's International Holdings,

Morningside Group

Qowisio [Angers, 2009]: Provides low cost and low energy consumption wireless network toconnect objects together. It has presence in 29 countries and in June 2015 it mobilize € 10 millionfor its first low -speed public wide area network for objects connected in France.

$9.2M Ouest Croissance

Kerlink [Bretagne, 2004]: Kerlink offers application services in a complete network solution toprofessionals wishing to connect and manage remote, fixed or mobile equipment. It provides M2Mcommunication including IoT stations, solutions for smart grid, smart metering and automotiveindustries, modules for IoT networks, etc.

$1.01MBretagne Jeunes, Société Financière

Lorient Développementis

m2ocity [Paris, 2011]: m2ocity, the French leading telecom operator for the Internet of Things, hasbeen created by Veolia and Orange in 2011. 1.7 million objects are connected to the m2ocitytelecom network in nearly 2 000 French cities. It provides a machine-to-machine network locallyand managed through its central resources. It can be used by any smart city developer and isinteroperable with various devices.

http://www.altaitechnologies.com/

http://www.qowisio.com/

http://www.kerlink.com/

http://www.m2ocity.com/




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Kiranium labs [Singapore, 2015]: It is a research project from National University of Singapore.They claim to have a better modulation for patented LEDs giving faster internet speeds. They planto commercialize the technology and are looking for partners.

UnifiApp [Palo Alto, 2014]: UnifiApp is a crowdsourced WiFi platform that unlocks mobileconnectivity in emerging markets. Th app allows users to share the spare capacity of theirWiFi(home broadband connection) router in exchange for free access to the wider UnifiAppnetwork, which includes the WiFi networks added by all users. Whenever their smartphone iswithin range of a WiFi router in our network, it automatically connects to that network. Every newmember of the UnifiApp community expands the network’s WiFi coverage. Users can choose howmuch of their network’s capacity and bandwidth to share, and UnifiApp’s firewall/VPN ensuressecurity by throttling bandwidth and preventing misuse. Has been launched in Mumbai and hasnearly 8000 users to date.

R-city [Le Havre, 2011]: Solutions for wireless broadband connectivity solutions. R-City is theservice provided by S2F networks for digital city solutions. It proposes applications in wi-fi hotspots,de materialization, facilities management, real time data collection, mobility and video protection.

Telit [Sgonico, 1986]: Telit is an enabler of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications worldwideproviding wireless module technology, services and connectivity. It develops, produces and marketsmodules for GSM/GPRS, UMTS/WEDGE/HSDPA, CDMA and Short-Range RF applications. It hasapplication specific connectivity modules for cars enabling connectivity in cars. The IoT Portal offersPaaS application enablement and cloud back-end integration services. It acquired NXP's ATOPdivision and integrated it to form the automotive division.

http://www.kiranum.com/

http://www.unifiapp.com/

http://www.r-city.eu/

http://www.telit.com/




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NWave Technologies [London, 2010]: NWave uses ultra narrow band (UNB) radio technologycombined with advanced software defined radio (SDR) techniques to provide a communicationnetwork for IoT. Benefits include: excellent in-building penetration and range and low powerconsumption. Also offers a range of sensors for industry based on it's modems such as: Sparkit,(low-cost, high-performance wireless parking sensor), an integrated solution for AMI (advancedmetering infrastructure) for utilities companies giving them the ability to create a reliable, secureadvance metering platform and is also working on agriculture sensors including soil moisturesensors and livestock monitoring devices. Has deployments in UK and is expanding to US andEurope. Part of the Weightless Alliance.

Koriist [San Diego, 2014]: Koriist focus' on connecting disparate communications networks with asoftware defined multi-protocol data and network router overlay. Koriist's software product runson top of the networks ensuring those who require remote connectivity can securely accessinformation, regardless of underlying infrastructure.Koriist was incubated at CiscoEIR@EvoNexus, ajoint incubation program launched in partnership with EvoNexus (and Cisco). Product is unreleasedas of late Feb. 2015.

Gaia Smart Cities [Mumbai, 2015]: Gaia Smart Cities is a solutions provider with expertise insoftware, communications, embedded electronics and urban design building products and solutionsfor consumer electronics, smart homes and buildings, logistics and manufacturing and smart cities.Solutions include consulting for M2M and IoT, networks for IoT, managed services (parkingmanagement, utilities, transportation information system) and connectivity management platform.They also have City Grade solutions for smart cities, industry grade solutions for enterprises andconsumer grade solutions for developers of B2C solutions.

http://www.nwave.io/

http://www.koriist.com/

http://gaiasmartcities.com/


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