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Prototype · 2021

Hyperaware

Co-built itHistorical

Hyperaware prototyped decentralized congestion-zone management -- location proofs and policy-enforced geofences for connected devices -- as an alpha implementation built on early Astral ideas.

github.com/wearehyperaware/hyperaware-core

Purpose

Congestion pricing and urban mobility rules are spatial policies; we prototyped enforcing them against location proofs instead of self-reports.

Approach

An alpha implementation of congestion-zone management -- geofenced policies for connected devices, built on early Astral ideas.

Status

Archived prototype, 2021.

astralcongestiongeofencing

Connections

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