Smart Futures Lab

Electrifide is a product design and engineering consulting company mainly focused on development of concepts and prototypes in the digital and electromechanical realms.

Blind Institute of Technology is an organization with boots on the ground in the Denver metro area working hard to advance the professional opportunities for people with disabilities. We’re a small, passionate team with a dynamic blend of backgrounds, disabilities, experiences, and motivations, doing whatever we can to get the job done.

SWAP is is solving one of the challenges that's preventing electric vehicles from becoming a practical form of mobility.

GlobeWater & Solar focuses on providing clean water and clean energy solutions to enhance living conditions for women, children, and their communities. The company develops innovative solar-powered water pumping systems that are equipped with smart technology and connectivity features. These off-grid mobile systems are designed to deliver immediate water infrastructure, particularly benefiting farmers and underserved populations. By leveraging renewable energy sources and advanced purification technology, GlobeWater & Solar aims to ensure reliable access to clean water during emergencies, thereby supporting community resilience and safeguarding health.

GridMatrix develops digital infrastructure software aimed at alleviating traffic congestion, reducing emissions, and minimizing accidents in urban environments. The company's innovative solution leverages existing city infrastructure, including intersection cameras and sensors, to gather real-time data. By processing this information alongside cloud-based mobility data, GridMatrix provides cities with actionable insights and analytics. This enables municipalities to autonomously manage traffic flows, optimize traffic signal timing, and predict potential congestion and accident hotspots, ultimately enhancing intersection efficiency and safety.

Caliola Engineering is a provider of technical products and services focused on ensuring secure communications in challenging environments. The company specializes in delivering advanced wireless communications, cryptography, protected maritime satellite communications, and software-defined radio systems. Additionally, Caliola Engineering offers expertise in machine learning and unmanned airborne systems, enabling government agencies to address mission-critical challenges effectively. Through its innovative solutions, the company supports defense and research and development activities, facilitating assured communication capabilities for its clients.

Snowbotix manufactures self-driving, electric robots designed for commercial snow removal. These robots can be equipped with various attachments, such as plows or brooms, to effectively clear snow in harsh weather conditions. By automating snow removal tasks, Snowbotix helps businesses reduce costs, enhance safety, and lessen environmental impact.

inCitu is a social-impact software company that offers an augmented reality platform for visualizing urban development projects and engaging communities. The platform presents life-sized 3D visualizations, real-time data, and intuitive tools to showcase future city designs, enabling architects, planners, and residents to collaborate, assess proposed changes, and make informed decisions about urban planning and development.

A.D Knight develops wireless sensing technology to detect pedestrians and vulnerable road users by leveraging personal devices and connected sensors. The system measures the positions of personal devices relative to vehicles, estimates road users' trajectories, and evaluates traffic awareness in real time, including low-light environments. Its solutions help municipalities, road operators, and asset owners deliver real-time safety alerts to pedestrians, micro-mobility users, and other road users, with the aim of preventing accidents and improving safety for walking, jogging, cycling, and driving. The approach emphasizes privacy by passively collecting data.

Tappy Technology is a smart city technology that helps cities, it's infrastructures, businesses and transportation systems become smarter for people with disabilities. Transportation is defined as the movement of people and goods from Point A to Point B. But, how does an individual with a disability navigate to, or even identify Point A? What happens to them after arriving close to Point B if their mode of transportation does not complete their journey? One of mobility’s toughest challenges for an individual with a disability is providing a safe and simple solution to the First Mile/Last Mile navigation problem. Riders with a disability struggle to travel this short distance to or from a transit stop and points of interest because of physical or other limitations. Tappy Guide mobile application, provides navigation to help locate and identify pick-up and drop-off locations, and building entrances and exits. The user-friendly technology eliminates the First Mile/Last Mile navigation problem such as true, point-to-point, demand-response service.

Herculean Feats supports a sustainable and equitable built environment with innovation.

Lazarillo develops a mobile navigation platform for blind and visually impaired people that provides real-time, voice-guided descriptions of the surrounding environment using geo-referencing technology. The solution announces street names, intersections, and nearby landmarks to help users navigate urban spaces independently, without needing assistance. It supports exploring the surroundings, moving through the city by various transportation options, locating current location and nearby services through voice notifications in English and Spanish, and allowing users to search for places, save favorites, and trace routes. The company aims to increase autonomy for people with disabilities. Founded in 2016, Lazarillo is based in Santiago, Chile.