The Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) has announced Canadian startup IRIS as the winner of its annual competition, InfraChallenge.
This year, InfraChallenge was supported by the Italian G20 presidency and focused on technological solutions for building and maintaining better, more resilient infrastructure. InfraChallenge 2021 received submissions from 30 countries.
Maintenance is critical to the safety and resilience of infrastructure, yet most technology that gathers asset-condition data is expensive or impractical at scale. IRIS’s solution enables cities to monitor road infrastructure at a substantially lower cost by using dash cameras with artificial intelligence (AI) to detect road hazards and defects in real time.
As the winner, IRIS will receive A$50,000 ($36,623) of ongoing support to scale their solution and exposure to a global network of infrastructure decision-makers that includes the G20’s Infrastructure Working Group.
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