Bristol Pilot — Near Human
Bristol Pilot
Near Human's first real-world deployment — edge AI safety systems fitted across 20 Dott e-scooters, live on the streets of Bristol, England.
Dashboard Preview
Real-time safety intelligence
Approved stakeholders see live heatmaps, near-miss alerts, road-defect maps, and a safety score across every route in the pilot zone — updated as the fleet rides.
20
Active Vehicles
of 50 target
148
Near-misses
flagged today
8.4
Safety Score
Bristol avg
Road Intelligence
It maps the road, too. The same units geotag potholes and surface defects on every ride — continuous road-condition data as a by-product, at a fraction of a survey vehicle’s cost.
£18bn
repair backlog
£100k+/yr
survey contracts
£0
extra hardware
20Dott e-scooters
Phase 1 fleet size
30fps
On-device inference speed
0mscloud latency
No data leaves the vehicle
Programme Timeline
Pilot updates
Mar 2026
Fleet Partnership Signed
Partnership agreed with Dott, Bristol's e-scooter operator. Near Human edge units to be deployed across 20 vehicles in phase one.
Apr 2026
Technical Preparation & Unit Testing
Edge compute units validated in lab conditions. Firmware tuned for Bristol's urban environment — junctions, pavements, pedestrian density.
Apr 2026
Hardware Deployment Begins
Edge compute units fitted across 20 Dott e-scooters. Real-time telemetry and on-device computer vision inference now running in the field.
May 2026
Dashboard Launch
Stakeholder dashboard live with heatmaps, incident alerts, road-defect maps, and a safety score across every route in the pilot zone.
Jun 2026
In progressLive Data Collection & Analysis
Incident detection, pedestrian proximity events, near-miss classification, and pothole mapping now logging across Bristol city-centre routes — the pilot's current focus.
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