Overseeing a complex transportation network with thousands of miles roadways, tens of thousands of miles of sidewalk, hundreds of signalized intersections and dozens of bridges and tunnels, requires tremendous effort. When you include traffic cameras, roadway digital signage, and vehicle detection… Read more…
Today’s airports are embracing new cellular connectivity solutions to improve the intelligence of their operations. Becoming better connected improves their efficiency, allows them to offer a safer, more streamlined travel experience and helps to reduce costs. All of these actors serve to increase loyalty among their customers. In their drive to become… Read more…
With three restaurants, a refrigerated warehouse, and a dozen delivery vans working to service a 20 mile radius, they were running into logistical issues. They needed a solutions that would help them track their fleet, improve driver and vehicle safety, monitor in-vehicle refrigeration units to guarantee freshness, and… Read more…
When Pierce Transit, a public transport operator in Pierce County near Seattle, wanted to replace their land-based radios, their IT team realized that in-vehicle cellular broadband was the next logical step. Serving 292 square miles, Pierce Transit required reliable connections for their CAD and AVL systems, DVRs for on-board cameras, and… Read more…
It falls to logistics managers at regional and national trucking firms to oversee programs aimed at reducing costs and ensuring compliance with existing and new local and federal trucking regulations. To accomplish these tasks, logistics leaders need to be able to access fleet vehicle information at any time, from anywhere, in real-time… Read more…
Recently, the FCC has mandated that major providers of copper POTS lines should sunset maintenance and support for devices and services that depend upon them beginning in August 2022. While there are many reasons for this, the primary issues are the high costs of laying new and maintaining existing lines. Costs that are… Read more…
Companies specializing in warehousing and logistics house and transport tens of millions of dollars worth of inventory ever year. Depending upon the types of inventory they store and ship, it can be necessary to track the location of individual items, pallets of items, and the vehicles and equipment used throughout… Read more…
While every rail service hopes to ensure riders enjoy the most pleasant travel experience possible, their foremost mission is to provide the safest riding experience and environment possible. In recent years, tragic accidents have called attention to the need to ensure that
safety remains one of fundamental principles of the transit industry… Read more…
Some organizations have to set up hundreds to thousands of digital signs spread over vast distances — with lots of applications to connect and varying WAN architecture from one site to the next. As it is unrealistic for these companies to commission an IT specialist to handle every deployment, it’s easier to deploy purpose-built… Read more…
Benjamin is the Senior Information Technology Director of a large metropolitan transit agency. Ben is looking to upgrade all transit buses to include robust communication systems that integrate driver and passenger security, fare payment systems, bus navigation and a separate passenger Wi-Fi system. Additionally, he wants… Read more…
