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RSS roadsideNZAA Turns to Avaya to Improve Call Centre Efficiency and Regional Office Productivity
White Paper Additionally, the NZAA uses the Avaya Voice Portal to deploy a new application enabling members to book roadside jobs from home. The New Zealand Automobile Association (NZAA) needed to implement a new communications platform after Avaya ended... [02 Jul 2008]
Video app the highway to healthy roads
News According to Paul Davison, senior officer in Hampshire's highway and transport team, the system can be used to assess the state of the council's roadside inventory. Hampshire County Council is trialling an extension to its road management systems... [12 May 2008]
Will consumers always want free banking?
Comment Services currently offered include travel and gadget insurance, roadside assistance and reductions in loan rates. This ruling will mean banks have to find more subtle ways to profit from their customers, argues Carol Wheatcroft. [12 May 2008]
VGrid: Vehicular AdHoc Networking and Computing Grid for Intelligent Traffic Control
White Paper This paper proposes VGrid: an ad hoc networking and computational grid, which can be formed by leveraging inter-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside wireless communications. Rather than just using ad-hoc networks for exchanging data between vehicles... [10 Apr 2008]
Photos: Driving safety through tech
Photo This display shows archived data gathered from a roadside transmitter. silicon.com went along to NEC's R&D labs in Heidelberg, Germany, to see some of the technology it has been developing. Some of the projects include technology to improve road... [21 Jan 2008]
Siemens Case Study: Kustom Signals, Inc.
White Paper The company designs, manufactures and markets traffic speed radar, speed lasers, and in-car video systems, as well as mobile roadside speed monitoring trailers. Kustom Signals, Inc.has been dedicated to serving the public safety equipment needs of... [14 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Resolutions for 2008
Comment Dispatched via a commercial wi-fi service from a roadside café Written on the M4 motorway in England as I was driven from Taunton to Ipswich. We all do it every year - resolve to do things better to improve our lot and that of our friends and family. [03 Jan 2008]
Tech leads to crunch time for uninsured drivers
News The use of ANPR has led to more than 100,000 uninsured vehicles in the UK being seized this year by the police in roadside checks, compared to 78,000 during 2006. Record numbers of uninsured vehicles are being seized and crushed thanks to automatic... [14 Nov 2007]
NRMA Enhances Reliability and Availability of Road Service Application With Grid Technology
White Paper NRMA is known for its prompt roadside service, operating more than 1,000 patrols to assist members whose vehicles have broken down. One of the most recent is the move to Oracle grid technology, which has helped the organization improve the... [05 Nov 2007]
Photos: Soldiers test battle simulator tech
Photo The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has spent £250,000 on high-tech simulator equipment to provide more realistic training for frontline troops facing the threat of roadside and suicide bombs. The IED simulates the noise and smoke of a real-life roadside... [22 Oct 2007]
A call centre in your bedroom?
News The AA has almost 300 home-based call centre agents across its roadside breakdown and insurance businesses taking calls from motorists and dealing with insurance quotes. The trend for call centre workers to be based from home is set to increase... [27 Sep 2007]
The McCue Interview: The AA IT director Trevor Didcock
Comment Now the AA has a PC user base of about 5,000 staff, plus 2,800 ruggedised patrol laptops for the breakdown vehicles, and the AA's roadside operation is actually incredibly automated. The company has about 300 of these teleworkers across the... [21 Sep 2007]
Mobile Throughput of 802.11b From a Moving Vehicle to a Roadside Access Point
White Paper This paper documents some tests of 802.11b wireless communication technology for vehicle to roadside communication. Data has been collected for a single vehicle communicating with a dedicated roadside antenna. [23 Aug 2007]
Throughput Persistence of Scalable Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Evaluation and Enhancement
White Paper The MAC layer definitions of the proposed DSRC standard for vehicle-to-vehicle and roadside-to-vehicle communications have evolved from the specifications for the IEEE 802.11 standard, which supports a Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) mode... [01 Aug 2007]
Introduction and Preliminary Experimental Results of Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE) Systems
White Paper Based on the experimental data captured in a typical vehicle-to-roadside access point environment, related channel impulse responses and capacities are extracted and analyzed. At first, this paper presents an overview on the background and... [13 Apr 2007]
