Company
What SmartCone is
The company behind the PatrIoT platform: in-house engineering since 2015, anchored by a single granted U.S. patent.
Company overview
SmartCone Technologies Inc. designs and builds a modular, sensor-agnostic IoT platform and a supporting hardware line for safety-critical industrial and infrastructure environments. The company is Canadian, and in-house engineering of the core platform began in 2015.
Every device SmartCone ships runs on the same underlying platform, engineered to keep working at the edge of the network, in the field, under real operating conditions.
U.S. Patent 10,713,527 Optics-based multi-dimensional object detection and tracking. Granted 2020. Inventors: Jacques Guigné and Nicholas Pace.
Milestones
Founded in Ottawa
SmartCone Technologies Inc. is founded, building its core edge-intelligence platform in-house. Early customers: Enterprise Rent-A-Car and the North Dakota Department of Transportation.
Work-zone safety for a major electric utility
Work-area protection and situational-awareness sensing deployed with Exelon, one of North America's largest electric-utility operators.
Autonomous-shuttle program
AVIN-funded autonomous-shuttle program with the Town of Whitby and Aurrigo, proving vehicle- and pedestrian-safety detection.
U.S. Patent 10,713,527 granted
Optics-based multi-dimensional object detection and tracking technology.
Nokia reseller partnership
SmartCone integrates into Nokia's MX Industrial Edge platform, reaching global Industry 4.0 deployments.
Two more applications proven
A proof-of-concept with AISIN Group proves vulnerable-road-user detection; a research agreement with the University of Ottawa's HEPRU lab proves heat-stress monitoring.
Disney technology license
SmartCone signs a Critical Process Verification technology license with Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, bringing to market solutions across worker safety, heat-stress monitoring, and process-compliance verification.
RampTrack proof-of-concept with United Airlines
Airport ramp-safety program begins, later expanded with Signature Flight Support, proving aviation ramp-safety detection.
Government-co-funded smart-transit R&D
Five-year, almost $9M program with Sustainable Development Technology Canada to develop "Corridor," a smart-transit technology suite.
Disney master services agreement; NORCAT mining safety
A master services agreement with Walt Disney Parks & Resorts brings an on-site heat-exposure monitoring pilot; separately, a mining-safety collaboration begins with NORCAT — proving heat-stress monitoring and underground mining-safety applications.
Houston POC; Disney People Counting live
A proof-of-concept with United Airlines in Houston proves heat-stress monitoring in aviation ground operations; separately, SmartCone's computer-vision People Counting deployment goes live at Walt Disney Parks & Resorts.
United Airlines: co-development and Denver field trials
A multi-year agreement to co-develop heat-stress safety technology, plus RampTrack field trials of single-anchor UWB positioning and optical-convergence collision avoidance at Denver International Airport.
Hardware platform behind RoadDefender
SmartCone designs and builds the hardware platform powering RoadDefender, an AI-powered work-zone safety system.
People Counting refined; York research agreement
Crowd-classification updated to include strollers and wheelchairs; a research agreement with the Regional Municipality of York proves forest and parking-lot asset monitoring.
Nokia Marketplace status; Samsung MOU
SmartCone's Nokia reseller relationship reaches Marketplace-agreement status, and SmartCone signs a strategic, non-binding MOU with Samsung Electronics America for joint marketing and sales.
See what the company builds
One platform, four hardware types, five application areas.