Connected Roadways: Paving the Way for Smarter and Safer Cities
Session Abstract:
As urbanization accelerates, the need for smarter and safer cities becomes paramount. Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and roadway authorities are focusing on improving road user safety, reducing traffic congestion, speeding up emergency responses, and achieving sustainability goals. The key to these improvements lies in modernizing roadways and network infrastructure for flexible connectivity, low-latency communication, and high-bandwidth connectivity across all environments.
This IoT members Slam 2024, let’s dive further into
· validated solutions that securely connect all our roadside and intersection needs.
· cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communication and multi-access intelligent transportation systems.
· advanced monitoring of traffic signals, weather conditions, and electric vehicle charging stations to shape the smart cities of tomorrow.
Speaker:
With a Master of Technology in Networks and Networked Systems, Richa Daga is as technical as you can get. She is working as a Software Engineer at Cisco and has vast work experience in the telecom and optical networking domain. Prior to this, she worked at Ciena and has developed cutting-edge products supporting data traffic up to terabits of speed. Her passion lies in technologies and chipsets that connect the world. Richa won the Global Conference Speaker of the Year Award at the WomenTech’22 Conference across multiple countries and was also bestowed with the HerRising Women Professionals Award’23. Richa is a global technical speaker at various industry platforms such as the Global Grace Hopper Conference, ClueCon Conference, SubOptic Conference, Women Who Code Conference, international IEEE Smart Cities Week, Women In Telco Conference, and IEEE Woman in Engineering International Leadership Conference. She has been featured in RCR Wireless News and multiple Women Leadership podcasts. Richa spearheads diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and is the India Leader of the Women in Science and Engineering, (WISE) Community of Cisco. Richa is a technical author at global Enterprise Viewpoint Publication, IEEE Newsletter for their Smart Cities special edition, and is the author of an Amazon best-seller book – The Butterfly Effect, in which she is featured as a global woman changemaker. Richa believes in investing in knowledge and sharing it with other technical communities globally. She is based out of New Delhi, India.