Tag: Transportation
Ford Robutt ensures car seats are built to last
With all the focus on speed, fuel economy and crumple zones, it's easy to forget about the little things in car manufacturing – like a...
LeasePlan and TomTom partner on connected fleet management
Fleet management company LeasePlan is to offer TomTom’s cloud-based fleet management technology to its corporate customers.
Under the terms of a new agreement between LeasePlan...
FindMy IoT saves Nordic reindeer from train collisions
An IoT solution that taps into geolocation data from trains and reindeer herds looks set to save thousands of animals a year.
We often...
RealVNC: Navigating the future of smart vehicles
In an exclusive interview with Internet of Business, Tom Blackie, head of automotive at RealVNC, discusses some of the roadblocks ahead for smart, responsive...
Progress: How can government get IoT right?
In a contributed article for Internet of Business, Mark Armstrong, managing director, international at Progress, discusses the various challenges that government bodies face when it...
Golden State Foods (GSF) delivers transformation with IBM Watson IoT
IBM has announced it is working with Golden State Foods (GSF), a restaurant supplier with a fleet of over 2,000 delivery trucks, on IoT-focused...
Rolls-Royce navigates Google deal on machine learning for shipping
Rolls-Royce has signed a deal with internet giant Google in a move intended to help the British engineering company to develop autonomous ships.
Under...
BMW to add Amazon Alexa to new cars from 2018
Drivers will soon be able to tell Amazon Alexa to turn on their central heating at home while they're still on the motorway.
Amazon Alexa...
IoT set to transform the airport experience
IoT technologies have the potential to make air travel a smoother door-to-door ride for passengers, as Doug Drinkwater reports.
Airports are usually a terrible experience....
Sigfox expands to four new countries, bringing total to 36
IoT connectivity specialist Sigfox has announced that it is now operating its network in 36 countries around the world.
At the Sigfox World IoT Expo...
Can drones and commercial aircraft safely share airspace?
In a follow-up to last week's interview with Professor Antonios Tsourdos from Cranfield University’s new DARTeC research centre, Internet of Business asks the professor about...
Tech start-ups should help design regulation, not fight it
Matthew Wood-Hill, city standards coordinator at Future Cities Catapult, on what the TfL/Uber spat means for today's start-ups, tomorrow's smart cities and future regulation.
Much...