AI & Technology

As a society we’re starting to grasp that we are strongly social, inter-dependent, woven into nature, complex, diverse and both fragile and resilient.

After several days of heavy rains in early August, Rockwell Automation’s 49,000 square-foot green roof helped the city of Milwaukee prevent millions of gallons of untreated water from flowing into the region’s waterways.

5G’s ability to connect millions of cellular-enabled devices for countless applications doesn’t just pop into existence overnight. Transmitting data through high radio frequency bands requires precise calculations about energy and positioning

The Fishing with Mobile Nets program uses wireless technologies, digital content and a virtual community platform to promote the economic and social development of traditional fishermen, women and youth in 13 vulnerable fishing villages in Colombia.

The StoveTrace program provides an affordable, reliable, mobile-phone-based monitoring device to enable widespread participation in a voluntary carbon market when individuals use clean cookstoves instead of traditional biomass burning cookstoves.

Through work with the clean-teach company Energy Cloud Inc., Black & Veatch created a technology that purifies the air of COVID-19 and other pathogens in real time.

The Fishing with Mobile Nets project utilizes Qualcomm wireless technologies, digital content, and a virtual community platform to promote the economic and social development of traditional fishermen, women and children in vulnerable villages.

Hapinoy and Qualcomm have developed a holistic program that provides participating Nanays with mobile literacy training, access to capital via microfinancing institutions, and new business opportunities using advanced wireless technologies.

As vehicles progress from advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to becoming fully autonomous, a key technology enabler will be the advanced sensors that allow these vehicles to sense the world around them.

Through programs like Innovation for Good, the I-Prize, Safe Water for All and the Kohler WasteLAB, our teams are thinking outside the box to help solve the world’s most pressing societal challenges.