In an era of connected mobility, there’s a real opportunity to bring the essence of community back to the road, by keeping every member safe. At Eye-Net, we believe in a living network of people – drivers, cyclists, smart-mobility users, and pedestrians – all connected and protected.
Why Community Matters
Connectivity isn’t just about devices or vehicles. According to research from the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School, mobility solutions work best when residents, infrastructure, and providers are linked rather than isolated. Their report “Mobility and the Connected City” highlights that “digital infrastructure like mobile apps … help integrate these solutions in a way that builds a holistic transit network for all residents.”
Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona echoes that message: the future of urban innovation depends on connected communities. Reducing road casualties, a core EU goal that has recently stalled, will require collaboration between cities, citizens, as well as innovative tech ecosystems that connect them.
What Does This Look Like With Eye-Net?
Imagine a popular ride-sharing or mobility-app integrates the Eye-Net SDK. Now:
- A driver receives an alert: a pedestrian is about to cross between parked cars.
- A cyclist entering a junction gets a push notification – a vehicle is approaching from a hidden angle.
- A smart-mobility rider and a driver both get a real-time warning of a potential side impact before they even see each other.
All road users are connected into one community. Because the SDK works across modes of transport and users, it creates one safety network, not multiple disconnected alerts.
Eye-Net’s Architecture Ensures:
Latency – Eye-Net has developed an advanced system architecture that uses two layers of cloud servers, distributed cellular calculations and tailored communication protocols. Its algorithms compensate for latency in order to optimize information transmission and deliver real-time alerts.
Relay messages – relay safety messages can alert Eye-Net users, even if the original detection didn’t occur on the user’s own device. This enhances safety measures by providing critical information about potential hazards or incidents detected by other devices within the network. Users receive timely alerts even if it’s not their device that detected the threat!
Supporting a large number of users – built on a distributed, cloud-native design, the Eye-Net architecture can efficiently handle high user loads and scale up or down dynamically based on system demand.
Data Anonymity – maintaining full GDPR compliance while never tracking personal identity.
Why Connected Communities Are So Effective
- Scale matters: The more users are connected, the smarter and more predictive the network becomes.
- Mode-agnostic protection: Whether you’re in a car, on a bike, or on foot, you’re part of the same safety circle.
- Shared data, smarter responses: Shared sensor data helps identify non-line-of-sight risks, as research on cooperative perception in V2X shows, vehicles can detect vulnerable users even around corners.
- Collective benefit: Each participant is protected not only by their own device but by the presence of others around them.
Why It Matters Now
Cities are becoming more complex, with multiple mobility layers overlapping every day. Traditional safety systems separated drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians – but real life doesn’t. Recent discussions at Smart City Expo and EU transport forums show the shift toward cooperative, connected systems as the only scalable way to reduce urban road fatalities.
By joining Eye-Net’s community of safe users, apps don’t just add a safety feature, they join a movement in which every user contributes to a shared, intelligent network.
