Product: Why ModuStreet and How It Works

Roadways and right of ways occupy significant amounts of land around the world. Except for the utility of transport, most of this land is otherwise unproductive. The Smart Modular Street idea is a way for improving the usefulness of roadways and sidewalks, to make them functional beyond a means of transportation, safe, easy to repair or upgrade, and sustainable.

The Smart Modular Street System provides numerous aspects of improvement in the utilization of roadways, sidewalks, rights of ways. The invention is ease to assemble, install, and maintain. The utilities embedded on the modules is ease to reach repair and upgrade. 

The modular approach helps avoid the need to breakdown streets and sidewalks when there is a power, internet, fiber or any other type of cable, or a leakage and/or other issues concerning the utilities that go underground, under the street or sidewalk. Rather than breaking down the street or sidewalk, the top module of the street and/or sidewalk is removes to expose the utilities pipelines and cables. After the utilities issue is resolved or upgraded, the tip modular component is placed back.

Additionally, the idea is to have a Smart functionality capable of collecting information from the environment, mainly the street and sidewalk surface, and combine it with information from the internet. This information would be the input to the computer embedded in the street and sidewalk. The computer makes calculations based on programing or AI and then give output to devices, that are mainly housed in the street od sidewalk, to perform tasks.

The modules are manufactured per design of the city managers/planner, engineers, other related persons, or combination thereof. Thus, the modules will have any shape and form with the planned cavities to house sensors, computers, cables, and devices to perform desired tasks. Modules can house heaters to melt ice or snow in cold weather cities, and a system of air conditioning devices for hot weather cities.

Additional smart systems can be added by inventors and/or city planners to make this Smart Modular Street system a continuous improving and sustainable safe and comfortable ecosystem for the benefit of the user.