We all want to see our cities functioning better. With urban populations increasing rapidly, and 70% of the global population expected to be living in cities by 2050, we have to come up with better ways of making our cities more liveable, writes Richard Harris, solutions director for international public sector at Xerox. (more…)
June 2, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
The difficulty when creating something new is that there is no template to follow, writes Narayan Menon, the CTO of XCellAir. No flat pack manual that takes you through the trickier parts step by step. (more…)
May 10, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Iteris announced its selection by the City of Lakeland, Florida to provide smart mobility infrastructure management technologies to support the city’s Intersection Crash Avoidance Safety Program (iCASP). The initiative will help improve safety at high-impact intersections.
“We’re thrilled to be supporting FDOT and the City of Lakeland in their Intersection Collision Avoidance Safety Program,” Kevin Exner, regional vice president at Iteris, said in a Wednesday media statement. “This is not only an excellent chance to carry on with our extensive work in the Florida market, but it also combines two of our greatest passions at Iteris: the advancement of ITS infrastructure and the enhancement of road user safety.
The project includes the deployment of Vantage Next, Iteris’ next-generation video detection system and VantageLive!, an easy-to-use, web-based data service that allows users to view activity at their intersections by automatically collecting and analysing vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian data, removing the need for manual, costly data collection efforts. These technologies will enable FDOT and the City of Lakeland to proactively prioritise easy-to-implement red light running countermeasures with the Red Protect safety feature.
Lakeland will also utilise BlueTOAD roadside units at select intersections. BlueTOAD combines real-time and historical Bluetooth detection with vehicle-to-everything (V2X) interconnectivity to enable various connected vehicle applications as well as to provide synchronisation with transportation agency travel-time and performance measures-based systems.
Vantage Next, VantageLive! and BlueTOAD are key components of Iteris’ ClearMobility Platform, the world’s most complete solution to monitor, visualise and optimise mobility infrastructure continuously. The platform applies cloud computing, artificial intelligence, advanced sensors, advisory services and managed services to help ensure roads are safe, travel is efficient and communities thrive.
The City of Lakeland initiated this project due to a high number of crashes attributed to red lights running in certain high-impact intersections throughout the city. The deployment of Iteris’ advanced technologies at 19 of these intersections is expected to increase safety for Lakeland’s travelling public.
In March, Iteris announced that it had been awarded a contract by the Virginia Department of Transportation to implement a statewide smart mobility initiative.
August 8, 2024
Posted by: Anna Ribeiro
Iteris, Inc announced that it has been awarded a contract from City of Bellevue, Washington for a smart mobility, safety and sustainability project. This represents expansion of Iteris’ software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions in Pacific Northwest (more…)
September 8, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Cityroam brings Passpoint / OpenRoaming adoption in Japan and currently interconnected with some other roaming federations including eduroam and WBA OpenRoaming. IKEUCHI GATE, located in Sapporo, Japan, is a smart building completed in October 2022 by IKEUCHI GROUP. (more…)
August 18, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
eleven-x, a global provider of wireless, IoT and smart city solutions for cities, announced that it has been selected by the City of Kirkland, Washington to deploy its eXactpark smart parking solution in the city’s busy downtown area. This partnership aligns with Kirkland’s smart cities initiative which aims to leverage solutions to increase operational efficiency, share information with the public, deliver enhanced services and manage resources to improve the community’s quality of life. (more…)
July 17, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Gogoro Inc., and Far EasTone Telecom have announced the deployment of their jointly-developed smart traffic signal uninterruptible power system (UPS) to nearly 200 of Taipei City’s busiest intersections utilising Gogoro smart batteries. The commercial rollout follows the completion of a pilot programme in 2022. (more…)
June 15, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Cairo, Egypt. 8 March 2023 – Nokia has announced that its OSS/BSS software solutions have been selected by Orange and Administrative Capital for Urban Development (ACUD) company owned by the Egyptian government to deliver a wide range of retail and wholesale services for the New Administrative Capital city. Nokia AVA products, including its operations and monetisation software, will be used by the Administrative Capital for Urban Development of Egypt (ACUD) to enable customers to order, activate and pay for utilities and data centre services. (more…)
March 14, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced that Dubai’s population benefit from 2.1 million smart electricity and water meters. This is part of DEWA’s efforts to develop smart and advanced infrastructure in accordance with the highest international standards. The number of smart meters has increased from 200,000 in the first phase which was completed in January 2016 to 2.1 million meters currently. (more…)
January 5, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
DFI, the brand in embedded motherboards and industrial computers, unveiled its new smart factory and invited the media to tour the plant in Taoyuan. DFI’s new facility introduces multiple automated equipment. In addition to efficiency and precision, it features more rigorous manufacturing and inspection processes. Control of the manufacturing process has been enhanced, with output increasing by 30%, material mastery reaching 99.9%, and FPYR (First Pass Yield Rate) reaching 99.6%. (more…)
October 20, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban