Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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The Transformation of Transportation Will Change the Built Environment
Society will soon face a change bigger than the Internet; the transformation of transportation into mobility solutions. Make no mistake that driving this transformation is the application of Internet technologies, along with mass adoption of low-cost, always-connected sensors connected to cloud intelligence. Some experts have predicted this change could mean virtually all vehicles on the road…
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Viodi View – 06/19/15
An oft-repeated comment heard at tech trade shows is how easy it would be to spend all one one’s working time in exhibit halls and conferences. There seems to be at least one relevant technology conference per week that one could attend and, in Silicon Valley, there are often two or three at any given time. With constraints…
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300 Gbytes of Data Per Month Per Car
300 Gigabytes of data per month per car is what Cisco Systems projects when connected and autonomous vehicles.fill the roadways. Speaking at the TIA’s Connected Car Workshop and in the above interview at that event, Andreas Mai, Director of Smart Connected Vehicles for Cisco Systems, discusses the impact that this much connectivity will have on infrastructure, as well as the more nuanced…
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Viodi View – 06/05/15
It has been said before that there is no single “killer application” for broadband, but it is the collective power of all the broadband applications that become the killer application. For the last-mile service provider, this may mean multiple small revenue streams from multiple products, as opposed to just a one or two large revenue streams from one…
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Viodi View – 05/22/15
IPv6 – Is There a Better Way? by Abraham Chen Late last year, we published an article that drew parallels between the early days of broadband and where we stand today with the autonomous vehicle. That article triggered Abraham Chen to ponder the similarities between Internet Protocol addressing and telephone network numbering. Since then, this MIT graduate…
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Something That Can Transform Transportation
The biggest challenge we face right now is a proposed [FCC] rule-making that would potentially open up that spectrum to other users that might, through their operations, effectively jam the safety messages,” according to Ken Leonard, Director of the ITS Joint Program Office of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The proposed FCC rule making Leonard refers to would expand the…