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Resilient Positioning, Navigation, and Timing – Right Now

“Miss the beat, you lose the rhythm, And nothing falls into place” Van Halen, circa 1991, Right Now Van Halen’s insight about timing and seizing the moment in its song, Right Now, is a great metaphor for the current situation with PNT. As background, the most prevalent source of PNT, Positioning, Navigation, and Timing, is […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment

A Phoenix Rising from the Ashes

In the midst of economic gloom, a phoenix rising from the ashes is the metaphor that comes to mind when reflecting upon this week’s ongoing Agility Prime Launch Event. Agility Prime is a non-traditional Air Force program with the intent to “accelerate the commercial market for advanced air mobility vehicles.” Leveraging government testing and revenue-generating […]

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Viodi View – 01/15/16

With thousands of booths and hundreds of press conferences, it is easy to get caught up in the inflated expectations that permeate the air at CES. It often takes years for the cutting edge ideas shown at this mega-event to become mainstream. The Consumer Technology Association illustrates how CES has been at the forefront  of new technnology […]

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Viodi View – 12/22/15

Google Spurring FTTH Deployment in the Former Valley of the Heart’s Delight After reading through a 200+ page, Google Fiber commissioned Draft Initial Study, it’s no wonder that Google’s Milo Medin stated in 2013 that Google wouldn’t come to California as long as CEQA was in place. The design of a Fiber to the Home network […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Internet of Everything

The $50 Million Smart City Challenge

Will the U.S. Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge do for urban mobility what Google did for gigabit broadband? That is the $50M question as the U.S. Department of Transportation recently launched a contest that is challenging cities and counties (with populations of 250 to 850k) to find ways to use technology to improve mobility and […]