Monthly Insights, February 2020

This year – 2020 – can become the year of inclusive mobility. Societies are looking more and more into making the move to more sustainable mobility and addressing some rising issues, such as congestion. Three major trends are recognizable for the upcoming year: The cost of owning private vehicles will rise; Citizens’ demands for inclusive mobility are growing in volume; and More public-private partnerships will form…

Monthly Insights, January 2020

Toyota has picked May Mobility, an US startup, as one of its “autonomous driving providers for future open platforms,”. The company has raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Toyota. The funding will be used to expand every aspect of the company, including its AV shuttle fleet, and its engineering and operations staff. May Mobility has 25 autonomous low- speed…

Monthly Insights, November 2019

Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, is collaborating with HERE Mobility (the mobility unit of HERE Technologies), to jointly develop integrated B2B2C payment and mobility services. Wirecard and HERE Mobility will collaborate on a variety of projects aimed at capitalizing on the payment and geolocation services both companies already offer, including innovation…

Monthly Insights, October 2019

Airbus and LM Industries, the world’s first and only digital manufacturer, have announced the formation of Neorizon to provide disruptive and innovative products with an initial focus on local mobility and autonomy. The mobility startup will operate a micro-factory designed to build new transport and mobility solutions quickly and efficiently. (Read more) India currently lacks…

Field Service Management

Service companies are challenged on a daily basis with efficient and effective allocation of their work orders and inherently their technicians. Digitalization provides an innovative solution for optimizing field service management and empowering field technicians. As produced goods become more sophisticated, machine repair difficulty increases with it hand-in-hand. Software providers such as Oracle, Microsoft and…

In-van Delivery & Car-boot Delivery

The rise of eCommerce and eRetail is not only accelerating the CEP market in B2C, but also among B2B shipping. Providers are looking for new innovative solutions as customers aim at higher utilization rate of their service technicians. A solution on the rise is in-van delivery, i.e. using the boot of a service van as…

Vehicle Telematics for the Connected Car

Telematic units or connectivity boxes serve as the foundation for the connected vehicle. These devices can enable and manage different types of protocols such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and NFC (all wireless); Ethernet, OBD, CAN (all wired); and GPS, GLONASS, Galileo (all navigation). Additionally, they also come with vehicle parameter measuring sensors such as accelerometers. All…

Smart Logistics: Transformation of the Logistics and Warehouse management process

High levels of transparency is required for logistics providers and in-house logistics departments of companies to operate efficiently. In this era of digitalization, condition and location of assets in transport or within a warehouse is quickly becoming a necessity. Companies are adopting paperless fleet and warehouse management solutions rapidly in order to transform their logistics…