Early in 2010, tech giant IBM launched a new Global Entrepreneur program to identify and support some of the most innovative new startups from around the world who are trying to “build a smarter planet” with technology. The results are, quietly frankly, eye-popping, and the startups that made it to IBM’s SmartCamp World Finals are terrific models for aspiring entrepreneurs everywhere.
A startup called Streetline (www.streetlinenetworks.com) took top honors in the SmartCamp competition. Streetline uses sensors that help people find inexpensive parking fast while helping cities manage their parking resources more efficiently. Streetline was selected from more than 600 entries worldwide based on its outstanding technology and innovative business plan. As part of its Global Entrepreneur initiative, IBM SmartCamp brings together startups from around the world that are building new technologies to tackle pressing issues such as the environment, energy efficiency, traffic congestion and personal health care.
Fledgling ventures are great role models for other entrepreneurs looking to develop innovative ideas. Check out some of the websites, marketing materials and other ways they are letting others know about the better mousetraps they’ve built.
• CareCloud (www.carecloud.com) modernizes the workflow in a medical practice to put physicians in touch with each other across multiple points of care, through a cloud computing, technology-based solution.
• CitySourced (www.citysourced. com) an intuitive, real-time, mobile civic-engagement platform that empowers people to identify civic issues like public safety and environmental issues and report them for quick resolution.
• iFind (www.ifindsystems.com) produces Wandering Shepherd Smart Tagging Ear Tag technology that provides real-time traceability and authentication of livestock.
• LindCom (www.lindcom.dk) measures the contents of tanks and silos and reports measurements via the Internet to optimize and streamline the distribution and production of commodities.
• Predect (www.predect.se) is a unique, online water-protection solution, whose early warning system enables immediate action before infecting a population.
• Sproxil (www.sproxil.com) develops technology to fight counterfeit medicine in emerging countries, cell phone technology used at point of purchase to validate genuine drugs.
• WorldSensing (wordsensing.com) offers industrial wireless sensing in smart structures, smart cities and smart oil fields. •
Daniel Kehrer can be reached at
editor@business.com.
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