The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) is planning to equip vehicles with connected-vehicle technologies, which will facilitate the vehicles to send and receive wireless messages preventing crashes. Under the ...
Tags: connected-vehicle, UMTRI, wireless messages, motor-vehicle
The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class will be the first car to be fitted completely with LEDs as standard,while optional extras will include adaptive LED headlamps that adjust according to other road users. Next year,the new S-Class from ...
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Time to Change the LED? Laser-Guided Lightmeter Will Tell You In many of the nation's traffic lights, light-emitting diodes or LEDs with their brighter light and longer life have replaced standard lamps. But knowing when to replace the ...
Tags: Laser-Guided Lightmeter, traffic lights, MoDOT, LED signals
Cisco has reported an 18% year-on-year rise in profits, hitting $2.1bn for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2013. Cisco's sales for the quarter came in at $11.9bn – equating to a more modest growth of 5.5% compared with 2011 ...
Tags: Cisco, year-on-year rise, John Chambers, cloud and mobility
The Weightless wireless standard has this week won the backing by a number of UK companies to try and establish it as the way forward for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. ARM, Vodafone-owned Cable and Wireless Worldwide (C&WW) and ...
Tags: ARM, M2M communications, C&WW, CSR, special interest group
A new piece of equipment that can measure the intensity of LEDs has been developed by Missouri University of Science and Technology. The long-standing problem many cities have regarding their traffic light bulb maintenance and the ...
Tags: LED industry
In many of the nation's traffic lights, light-emitting diodes or LEDs with their brighter light and longer life have replaced standard bulbs. But knowing when to replace the signal heads has remained a guessing game, says Dr. Suzanna Long, ...
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Facebook engineer Sean Lynch has developed a monitoring tool that uses heatmapping to gather data to spot problems and patterns in its IT infrastructure. Lynch revealed the datacentre heatmapping tool on his blog. Lynch and other ...
Tags: Facebook, Heatmap Tool, monitoring tool, datacentre heatmapping tool
Tesco has announced plans to add traffic-light labels to the nutritional information it puts on products. The decision, revealed today (22 August), is a major change in strategy from Tesco, which has favoured labels that show guideline ...
Researchers hope they can sharply reduce the number of car accidents by enabling vehicles to communicate with each other--and they're putting the theory to the test in Ann Arbor,Mich. On Tuesday,researchers at the University of Michigan ...
Tags: smart car, Google, sustainability, vehicle
Baltimore City is under the process of converting 70,000 city streetlights from sodium vapor lights to LEDs. Baltimore expects to reap an annual savings of $1.9 million on its electric bill and $275,000 in maintenance costs. Also, ...
Tags: LED Streetlight, LED lighting
The last installment in this three-part series tackles the challenges faced by makers. Shenzhen represents more than 70 percent of Guangdong province's lighting products. The bulk of the latter's LED light shipments of $3.81 billion ...
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Everything Everywhere is the UK's largest mobile network and, with 27 million customers on its books, it competes in size with some of its larger European counterparts. The joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile is approaching its ...
University of Utah physicists invented a new "spintronic" organic light-emitting diode or OLED that promises to be brighter, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the kinds of LEDs now used in television and computer displays, ...
University of Utah physicists invented a new"spintronic"organic light-emitting diode or OLED that promises to be brighter,cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the kinds of LEDs now used in television and computer ...
Tags: OLED, LED, Utah, spintronic