Category: Smart Cities
Could sensors on trains mean end of the line for ticket barriers?
Railway station ticket barriers could be replaced by sensors which detect when passengers board trains, a manufacturer has claimed. Train-builder Hitachi Rail is developing technology designed to ensure travellers are automatically charged the correct fare by recognising their smartphones at both ends of their journey. The firm is testing the system in northern Italy and…
Mastercard and Stanza create Connected City art installation
A concept connected city of the future, where data gathered from sensors in all parts of the infrastructure helps make it smarter, is the subject of a newly unveiled art installation created by Mastercard and British artist Stanza. The Emergent City – a miniature city skyline created using computer circuits – has gone on show…
How employers are using tech to build workforce communities
If you have recently started competing in the UK job market, you can't have failed to notice how various cities around the country have flourished - largely on the back of tech revolutions left, right and centre. These developments are boding well for local communities, too. As the World Economic Forum has pointed out, technology…
Tel Aviv deploys ‘zombie lights’ on pavements for mobile-obsessed pedestrians
Special LED pavement lights have been installed at a busy crossing in Tel Aviv to alert distracted 'smartphone zombies' as to when they can walk and when they should stop. Tomer Dror, head of the traffic management division in the area, said the “zombie traffic lights” aim to minimise accidents between vehicles and inattentive pedestrians…
Vietnam infrastructure investment aims to develop industrial hubs and modernize transportation network
Often when a country is looking to improve its residents’ lifestyles, they look at modernizing and building new infrastructure. As a resident of your own country, you could agree with the fact that new infrastructure give positive results for your personal life. Not to mention when the modernizing deals with the transportation system; that’s always…
