Deployments
Deployment history
Named as customers where SmartCone technology has been deployed. Presented here as deployment history, not as current commercial partnerships or endorsements.
Companies SmartCone has worked with
Not every company below has a full write-up. Four documented deployments with case-study detail follow further down this page.
Deployment case studies
AISIN Group
Vulnerable road user detection
Pedestrian and vehicle proximity risk detection at industrial and roadway sites, connected over cellular. The deployment focuses on the moments where a person on foot and a vehicle or piece of equipment share the same space — detecting that proximity in real time rather than relying on line-of-sight alone.
Signature Flight Support / RampTrack — with United Airlines
Airport ramp safety, Denver International Airport
Vision- and sensor-based safety across ramp, tug, and hangar operations at fixed-base aviation facilities — environments where ground vehicles, tugs, and aircraft move in close proximity under time pressure. RampTrack was developed in partnership with United Airlines, and its RayCart and Whiskers subsystems were field-tested at Denver International Airport.
SmartCone co-developed two ramp-safety subsystems within RampTrack: RayCart, a single-anchor UWB (ultra-wideband) positioning system, and Whiskers, an optical-convergence collision-avoidance cue.
RayCart's engineering challenge was deliberately harder than the industry-standard approach: most UWB positioning systems rely on multiple fixed anchors, but RayCart was built to derive reliable position from a single anchor, in an environment — an airport ramp — full of metal structures and vehicles that distort radio signals through multipath interference. Field trials began at Denver International Airport in April 2024, with iterative refinement through the summer as antenna geometry, filtering, and localization logic were tuned against real ramp conditions.
Whiskers takes a different approach to the same problem: two converging optical beams, calibrated to indicate a fixed stopping distance. The system was tuned through field trials under varying lighting conditions to give ramp crews a consistent, intuitive stop cue rather than a data readout. Both subsystems were delivered to United Airlines for evaluation.
The Walt Disney Company
Computer-vision people counting
A multi-year production deployment, refined through 2024, classifying crowd composition — including strollers and wheelchairs — rather than just producing a raw headcount.
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