(PhysOrg.com) -- By installing millions of sensors throughout a city and hooking them up to an urban operating system, the Portuguese-based company Living PlanIT envisions that, in the future, cities could monitor and manage ...
Excited crowds filled the streets of Jerusalem on Friday as hundreds of people rose early to try out the Holy City's first-ever light rail system which finally opened its doors to the public.
Engineering
Aug 19, 2011
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Safety while driving is paramount, and Europeans are making efforts to ensure our well-being in vehicles - whether we are behind the steering wheel or in a passenger seat. The project partners have pushed the envelope by ...
Engineering
Aug 9, 2011
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A yearlong experiment with the nation's electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems and some computers - and make plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable coffeemakers run up to 20 minutes fast.
Other
Jun 24, 2011
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New research from the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is helping Duvas Technologies Ltd (Duvas) to develop improved air quality monitoring instrumentation. Currently over 1bn people a year suffer from respiratory ...
Engineering
May 31, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtual reality may take us to worlds that worlds that we have never been to before, but augmented reality can make the world that we already live in a better, or at least a more digital, place. It should ...
Thugs and fires are obvious threats for police and firefighters, but traffic accidents also pose a serious danger for first responders.
Engineering
Mar 23, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft is planning to tap into the intimate knowledge taxi drivers have of their cities to improve their online mapping systems and help drivers navigate to their destinations faster.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Denso Corp. has designed the next version of 'the smart traffic light system'. By using messaging between vehicles and the traffic-light controller, better decisions about when to change signaling will help ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- An internet of cars promises a road system designed around cooperative technology enabling each element of the traffic system -- cars, drivers, traffic lights, signs -- to cooperate proactively to create ...
Engineering
Mar 22, 2010
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