AI Smart Solar Bench
India · Product development
Clean-tech · Public furniture · Smart · Material · Research
The brief
Public seating is the simplest object in a streetscape brief. The question: what if it generated its own power and sensed its surroundings?
The approach
A bench designed as a living node: timber and steel form, a solar roof, an edge-computing AI layer and a screen, co-developed with iViRTH.
The solution
- Design
- A seating form that works as a bus shelter, bench and information point.
- Technology
- On-device AI that decides locally and reports centrally, with no dependency on grid power.
- Materials
- Warm timber seating with weather-ready steel and glass.
The result
Renders, specification and a network protocol, with the research published openly.
Services delivered
Related research
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