Can you imagine living in a polished world where potholes are extinct and road closures have disappeared? Salar Shahini and his team aim to transform the future of transportation with a mobile sensing technology and a Smart City GIS application. Salar is the GIS Director and Data Scientist for a fast-growing startup called StreetScan, which was spun out from a research project in the Civil Engineering department of Northeastern University. This talk explains how the Internet-of-Things can advance the future of transportation as StreetScan has already served over 90 municipalities, where they have successfully embraced the IoT to improve their road infrastructure. GIS Director and Data Scientist for a fast-growing startup called StreetScan, Salar Shahini and his team aim to enable the future of transportation with a mobile sensing technology and a Smart City GIS application.

StreetScan, the brainchild of a research project born in the Civil Engineering department of Northeastern University by a group of engineers & scientists, has served over 90 municipalities and transformed what was once an idea to a real-world solution. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx