McKinney and Frisco have picked three technology companies to move toward city pilot projects tackling a familiar set of problems: infrastructure wear, waste collection and traffic.
Geolava won the public works category, Sensoneo the environmental category and Vaidio the transportation and logistics category at the North Texas Connected pitch competition on Oct. 21 in Frisco. The North Texas Innovation Alliance announced the winners in a public post shared by the Frisco Economic Development Corporation.
The competition gives the companies a path to test their ideas with local governments. For residents, the practical question is what those tests eventually change on a street or collection route. The announcements reviewed for this story do not specify deployment locations, start dates or the city assignment for each winner.
Geolava analyzes changes in physical assets to help identify possible failures earlier. The alliance describes potential uses involving roads, bridges and facilities. Sensoneo combines waste-bin fill monitoring with collection software and route planning, aiming to cut unnecessary trips. Vaidio uses existing cameras for analysis that can include traffic and pedestrian counts, crosswalk safety and incident detection. Those are the companies’ proposed capabilities, not results demonstrated in McKinney by this competition.
The event brought six finalists to Hall Tower. Organizers said they selected the finalists from 53 applicants representing 38 cities in seven countries. McKinney’s and Frisco’s economic development corporations run the initiative with the alliance.
