The Sidewalk That Thinks, Learns, and Powers Itself
10 June 2025
In a region where the sun blazes, and cities never sleep, the infrastructure beneath our feet should do more than survive the heat.
It should think, adapt, and give back.
Pavegen’s Solar+ hybrid flooring system is purpose-built for the world’s most demanding outdoor environments - combining kinetic energy from footsteps with high-output solar panels, engineered to thrive in extreme heat, dust, and public spaces.
But energy is just the start.
Our AI layer transforms that energy into insight, optimisation, and engagement.
AI assistants like PAVO (Predictive Maintenance) and EVA (Sustainability Story Agent) make every footstep count-flagging layout inefficiencies, maximising uptime, and turning real-time energy stats into emotionally resonant ESG stories for citizens, investors, and regulators.
Imagine this: Middle Eastern deployment, Pavegen installed across shaded walkways in a major city’s new downtown district.
Every visitor’s movement...
- Powers ambient lighting and cooling fans
- Feeds into FLUX (Crowd Flow Optimiser) to prevent congestion at peak times
- And contributes to a live dashboard showing the city’s renewable energy contributions from its people - step by step
This is a permanent, self-sustaining engagement loop between city and citizen.
And here’s why it matters
- The Middle East is investing over $200B in green infrastructure and smart city tech by 2030 (PwC).
- ESG mandates from sovereign wealth funds and regulators are increasing pressure on municipalities to prove, not just promise, sustainability impact.
- Smart city tech adoption is accelerating in sun-rich, walkable cities like Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Doha. But most tech remains passive. Pavegen makes it participatory.
Causes for Smart Urban Projects
- Combines Pavegen Solar+ kinetic energy for off-grid performance, day and night
- AI-enabled platform turns passive paving into a learning system
- Delivers ESG-ready data and behavioural insights in real-time
- Builds urban infrastructure that citizens actually engage with
Your city doesn’t need more concrete.
It needs a smarter foundation - one that learns, powers, and connects with its people.
Build a smarter city from the ground up.
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About Pavegen
Pavegen is a purpose-driven technology business that helps power change and generates positive outcomes for people and planet. Laying underfoot inside buildings, public spaces and at events, Pavegen Kinetic Paving harnesses the power of people’s footsteps, creating not only a small amount of energy – but also imaginative, interactive experiences and data, to help educate, engage and enable meaningful actions around sustainability and Net Zero intent. Pavegen calls this Citizen Impact; powered by Pavegen.
Pavegen helps power Kinetic Street Furniture applications such as USB charging, LED lights, and Green Wall irrigation systems, whilst data from the system can be used for public educational purposes on digital display screens. Kinetic Brand Experiences at live events, expos, festivals and public spaces produce data to provide gamified experiences that help brands engage meaningfully with consumers.
The company was founded in 2009 by Laurence Kemball-Cook who invented the Kinetic Paving technology that can now be seen in over 37 countries around the world.