Logistics Viewpoints

Listen to Joe Moye, CEO of BEEP on the subject of Autonomous Vehicles for Last Mile Applications. 

Beep was founded by experienced fleet managers and technology entrepreneurs, beep delivers the next generation of services for autonomous passenger mobility to fleet operators in planned communities and low speed environments across the public and private sector, including transportation hubs, medical and university campuses, town centers and more. From route planning to on-board interactive services, our offerings are designed to drive differentiation and innovation, and delight the passengers of our customers.

 Listeners to this podcast will:

 1.       Learn about Beep’s strategy to make the autonomous vision a reality, including how Beep is positioned in the market & what sets the company’s approach apart from other autonomous technology entities and/or services.

2.       Examine how Beep is proving out and mapping out the business case for autonomous mobility in the short term, near term and long term

3.       With much confusion out there across the public on ADAS (on regular passenger vehicles) vs. true Level 4 and 5 autonomous operations, explore how has Beep been helping to introduce autonomous mobility to the public across a variety of deployments to date?

4.       From a smart city perspective, examine how Beep describes how autonomous mobility is being adopted in municipalities in smart city ecosystems today. In particular, the need for smart infrastructure to help realize safe, trusted Level 4 and 5 autonomous in urban environments.

5.       Discuss the firsts and differentiation points of the Peachtree Corners, Georgia application including 5G / C2VX applications

6.       Determine what real-world service examples shed light on the practical deployment of autonomous services across the country – in terms of real value, not just in concept?

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Join Tim Shea ARC Senior Analyst on this fascinating podcast for answers and insights on:

• How are drones utilized for autonomous operations?
• What benefits do drones provide?
• What are details of the drone supplier market?
• What are specifics of the drone service provider market?
• What's a snapshot of the drone competitive landscape?
• What drone applications are up and coming?
• What obstacles exist and how do drone technology providers surmount them?
• What legal and regulatory issues exist for drone deployment?
• What recent drone technology advancements are occurring, in terms of batteries, autonomous flight capabilities and more...

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Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure is being implemented at an unprecedented rate, and now with government incentives spurring installations that rapid growth continues its acceleration.

In this captivating Smart City podcast, the ARC Advisory Group team discusses, in detail, answers to the following questions:

What are the basics and who are the stakeholders in the Electric Vehicle transition?         

What can residential customers expect from utilities?     

How do EV owners living in an apartment, or a condo charge their EV?    

What can fleet owner expect from utilities?         

What can property owners and private charging companies expect from utilities?              

How do government policies influence the role out of EV charging infrastructure?  

Join ARC's own Rick Rys, Peter Manos & Jim Frazer as they discuss developments in this rapidly expanding domain.

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What are the practical applications of AI in smart cities today that can actually benefit citizens? In our latest Smart City Podcast, we interviewed Seth Dobrin, chief AI officer for IBM, and Graham MacDonald, CIO and VP of technology and data sciences at the Urban Institute about their collaborative AI-based approach to mitigating the adverse effects of gentrification in American cities and communities. 

The theme of this podcast was "AI for Good." There's a lot of hype surrounding AI, and it can be difficult to find truly practical and actionable use cases, but this is a great use case with direct benefits for people being affected by increasing gentrification in many US cities and communities. It's also a great example of a public/private partnership that is producing results. The focus of this project was to put the tools and technologies offered by companies like IBM into the hands of nonprofit research organizations like the Urban Institute so they can do research and execute projects that provide the greatest benefit to the people that need it most. 

Seth describes the technology side of the solution and Graham describes the outcomes.  Here's what Seth had to say about the project:

"How do we help the Urban Institute better manage gentrification in the communities? How do we ensure that it's done in a trustworthy manner? How do we ensure that it's fair and free of specific types of biases, or in this case, how do we help them identify specific types of biases? How do we make the models transparent? How do we make them robust? And how do we ensure that we're preserving the privacy of people that are being impacted by these models? What we did was we brought our tools, our Cloud Pak for Data with Watson Studio, to the Urban Institute, along with some folks from the data science and AI elite team, to work on this problem."

Armed with these tools, Grant MacDonald and the Urban Institute team were able to develop a solution to measure and mitigate the adverse effects of gentrification, where affluent residents move into long-established neighborhoods comprised of middle-class and working-class citizens who in many cases find themselves priced out of their own homes because they can no longer afford to live there. According to Grant:

"We initially worked with HUD to define neighborhoods that were gentrifying, which were declining, and which were inclusively growing. The vast majority of neighborhoods happened to be in the unchanging or inclusively growing category. And there are a small number of neighborhoods that are in the declining and gentrifying category. And what we were trying to do was to find those neighborhoods, and then use machine learning, taking the data that we have to project or predict, in real-time, what is happening right now."

You'll have to listen to the rest to get the details, but it's an excellent real-world example of a practical application of AI that provides true economic and social benefits to citizens and communities.  

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Listen to market analyst Rick Rys interview Emesent CEO Stefan Hrabar about their unique LIDAR based technology called Hovermap. This technology can be used for challenging autonomous drone mapping applications without the need for GPS.

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The ARC Smart City Podcast is back and this time we interview Andre Ristaino who is managing director at ISA, the International Society of Automation. Those in the world of smart cities may not be familiar with ISA, but most of those in the power and energy industry probably are. ISA creates and administers industrial and OT level standards that apply to critical infrastructure and manufacturing. Their standards are very widely adopted in these sectors not just in North America but around the world.

ISA has put a huge amount of effort into developing cybersecurity standards used at the OT level. The ISA 99 standards committee first began its work on a comprehensive industrial and OT level cybersecurity standard back in 2002. The standard has since been adopted internationally by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as the IEC 62443 Standard.  ISA also supports a huge range of other cybersecurity-related efforts such as ISA Secure product certification, the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance, training programs, and liaisons with other standards bodies like NIST and NERC.  

ISA's cybersecurity standards and other related efforts like ISA Secure have huge potential for smart cities and critical infrastructure. They're already being adopted in the electric power, water and wastewater, and building automation sectors. This podcast gives a great overview of what ISA can do for you in the realm of cybersecurity, what the standards are, and some key resources for end-users and owner/operators of OT-level technologies and assets. 

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Vehicle Electrification has been gaining serious momentum lately for personal and commercial vehicles alike. Fleets are electrifying to reduce TCO and carbon footprint, improve driver/customer experience, and comply with a growing body of regulation. Private drivers mostly charge their vehicles at home, but rely on public charging networks to extend their range. Networks and fleets alike use software solutions to effectively manage and optimize energy use, govern access control, billing, customer perks and privileges, and more. In this episode, ARC Transport Analyst Eduard Fidler sits down with Rich Mohr, VP of Fleet at ChargePoint to talk about the state of fleet electrification and what makes a deployment successful

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In this most recent episode of the ARC Smart City Podcast, we sit down with Sachin Gangwar and Yuvarajan U of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to talk about the value of smart city platforms, particularly about the impact of COVID-19 as a catalyst for digital transformation and increased adoption of IoT platforms for smart cities. 

TCS has its own smart city platform called IUX, which offers a comprehensive solution for workplace resilience.  Many cities and enterprises are faced with a number of new challenges when it comes to managing worker health and safety in the midst of the pandemic. Suddenly, worker health and wellness have become a major factor in risk management for any organization. 

Even for organizations where worker safety is of particular concern because of potentially hazardous environments, COVID presents new challenges in preserving worker health and safety when it comes to shift scheduling, congregation avoidance, contact tracing, and publicly available health data.  these are all different sources of data that must be integrated into a common environment so they can be viewed holistically and managed in a consistent and standardized manner. 

Smart city platforms can be a great way to implement workplace resilience solutions to ensure the health and safety of workers are preserved in both operational (OT) and enterprise environments.  Sachin and Yuvarajan both discuss the burgeoning need for these solutions, not just today as a response to the pandemic, but in the future as well. 

With COVID, the workforce is also becoming more distributed, which will be a long-term trend even after COVID.  This also presents new risks.  from the podcast:

"Employees will be working in a distributed manner going forward, because that is something which organizations have realized. And it's something which is working, it's the new normal Now, what it means is because the employees are working in a distributed manner, it becomes very important that you have to monitor the risk these employees will be facing, because they now would be working in different environments, environmental risk COVID being one of them. Other environmental risks will become very important to monitor, and you have to see the impact whenever such an event happens. So, our solution is mainly addressing that key concept about a distributed workforce, how you can actually assess the risk in a distributed workforce."

On the relevance of workplace resilience solutions moving forward:

"These solutions are still relevant beyond the COVID-19 situation. If you see these enterprises, municipalities, and all other organizations, we're learning how these were liabilities in their safety or compliance or operations or their customer interactions. All these vulnerabilities can destroy the chain of the business and can continue to do so during a crisis, whether it is a pandemic like COVID-19, or a natural disaster, or political or social unrest. And this pandemic menace stimulated the development of new solutions that leverage the insights of IoT and other data sources to understand and predict that are helping organizations to recover more quickly and build resilience."

More information about the TCS IUX platform can be found here. 

ARC's Smart City Digital Transformation Council also did a recent webinar on TCS IUX that goes into a lot more depth and you can access more information about that webinar here.  

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ARC transportation analyst Eddie Fidler sits down with James Cater, program lead for Electric Vehicles at Eversource, to discuss the utility’s ongoing efforts to boost EV adoption in New England through the Make Ready Program, among others.

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