Three Steps to Unleash the IoT Revolution in Transportation Networks
GDG IoT White Paper 18.01 by John Wolff & Joah Sapphire
Case Studies
Biometrics at Airports: Opportunities and Risks
Biometric technologies sense and compare a person’s unique biological characteristics, such as their fingerprints, retina, face, speech or biological matter in order to identify and authenticate their identity in a reliable and fast way. Amidst the rapid adoption of biometric technologies at airports, skeptics claim that its costs, benefits and other implications have not yet been fully vetted or considered by industry, policymakers, and especially the general public. Issues include the threat of cybersecurity and terrorist attacks; technical efficacy and legacy system interoperability resulting from a fragmented vendor landscape; privacy implications for the collection of highly personal and personally identifiable information; issues of data protection and ownership given the potential for commercial exploitation or exploitation by bad actors who steal, modify and abuse data; and threats to civil liberties.
Transforming Airport Environments into Premium Digital Experiences
Airports can no longer be perceived as a static group of runways and buildings supporting the takeoff, landing, and maintenance of aircraft to facilitate passenger and cargo travel. Airports must embrace a new identity as an interconnected physical and virtual space supporting many dynamic systems whose value creation stems from serving the needs of captive consumers as they pass through. In this new paradigm, consumers and their experiences sit squarely in the bullseye. Value creation (i.e., revenue generation) is about deploying transactional tactics that serve their needs and improve their travel experiences or enabling partners to do so.
Cybersecurity Challenges: Are Transportation Agencies Ready?
The adoption of the new tools of OT and IT hold the promise of vast benefits to both the general public using the transportation networks and systems and to the leaders that manage them. However, it has also given rise to new and frightening levels of public danger in the form of cybersecurity risk and threats to the OT and IT systems upon which transportation-sector leaders now rely. Cybersecurity attacks can severely undermine the integrity of public transportation systems, cause loss of life and injury, severely disrupt economic activity, transportation, mobility and communication networks, and affect public confidence in the ability of public entities to maintain safety, order and rule of law. Such threats are existential, immediate and persistent and can come from anywhere in the world. As managers and guardians of vital infrastructure, public trust demands that transportation-related organizations meet the critical risks posed by ongoing cybersecurity threats.
Measure to Manage: Performance Metrics for Transportation Systems
We studied state-of-the-art operational activities and best practices to determine which were the most effective and efficient ways to monitor, measure and manage transportation performance. We found that there are seven monitoring and management activities at the heart of performance measurement best practices. These represent the seven areas in which TMCs / TOCs should invest time, attention and resources to measuring and monitoring in order to correspondingly manage transportation system performance. The ability to achieve desired outcomes, such as improved safety, traffic congestion and flow, system reliability, freight movement or other outcomes, all emanate from efforts to measure, monitor and manage performance in these seven areas.
Revolutionizing Transportation Networks
Efficient transportation networks are fundamental to society. Just as steam power and electricity were the catalyst for the first industrial revolution, emerging IoT solutions will revolutionize transportation spurring the next industrial revolution. IoT can solve congestion through digitizing transportation networks which provide real-time predictive analytics to ensure every participant can achieve their objectives. On behalf of a leading, international transportation authority in a major metropolitan region that manages thousands of miles of roadway for millions of travelers, we provided a practical pathway to success through our unique and proven methodology of ASSESS, PLAN, DEPLOY.
Optimizing Physical Assets
Unlocking the value of physical assets will be the key to achieving sustainable growth in the 21st century. We helped a client use IoT to improve its management of $1.7 billion in tangible assets which reduced costs and generated greater return on investment. IoT provides the ability to understand the health of a physical asset and to more easily maintain and update it through information management. This reduces downtime, shrinks maintenance and repair costs and extends useful life. IoT also enables more robust data-driven performance measurement to improve asset productivity, creating substantial new value and opportunity.
Transforming Operational Performance
Data has become the new sustainable competitive advantage. IoT sensors that collect and transmit data over faster networks can transform a business from being siloed and unconnected into a unified intelligent system. By placing critical information, which we call Data Resources, in the hands of the right people when they need it to inform and automate decisions and functions, our clients achieve maximum performance. For leading public and private sector clients our Information Strategy identified and determined how to use Data Resources to unleash value through improved operational performance. Achieving transformational operational performance through IoT is within reach for any organization. Our ASSESS, PLAN, DEPLOY approach gets you there faster.
Accelerating Profit Potential
With IoT creating $19 trillion in new value over the next ten years, businesses that adopt IoT will achieve greater productivity and dramatically reduced costs while creating new models to deliver products and services to customers. This will lead to substantially greater profitability and market share. For a NYSE listed company we delivered improved profit potential through IoT. We turn data into intelligence, which we call Data Resources, to transform any business into an intelligent system. Our ASSESS, PLAN, DEPLOY approach provides a practical pathway for how to use IoT in ways that achieve measurable results.
Pioneering New Markets
Unprecedented market disruption is occurring. Those who embrace IoT in their operational DNA will obtain new forms of competitive advantage and a disproportionate share of the $19 trillion in new wealth creation over the next ten years. Those who fail will be among the 8 out of 10 firms in the Fortune 1000 who will no longer exist. Our IoT services enabled a well-funded automated vehicle company to tap new markets. By understanding IoT as sensors that collect and transmit data over faster networks to enable firms to use data and intelligence in new ways, we have a clear approach that upends traditional business models.
Buffalo Principles to Advance Automated Vehicle Technology
The IoT Next Industrial Revolution is transforming mobility and creating endless possibilities for how to get from point A to point B in the fastest, safest way. As self-driving cars soon become part of everyday life, the profound opportunity to eliminate traffic congestion, accidents, or wasting space on parking, has generated considerable interest in automated vehicle (AV) technology as a mobility solution. But why can’t we enter any vehicle, tell it where to go, then take a nap until we safely arrive?
Driving the Adoption of Truck Platooning
Truck platooning is when two or more trucks using connected and automated vehicle technology travel in unison at a close following distance. Research has demonstrated how this advanced transportation technology can significantly reduce costs, fuel usage and emissions, while improving traffic efficiency, driver conditions and safety. The challenge for our client, a statewide consortium of transportation industry leaders in private industry, premier universities and public agencies, was how to jump-start the adoption of truck platooning in a state where freight transport makes up 40% of the GDP. Using our methodology of ASSESS, PLAN, DEPLOY™, we developed an open data platform to make vital data for public agencies available to support private industry implementation of truck platooning and to capture high-level performance data to support research and future deployments.
The Right Way to Assess Safety in the Age of Automated Vehicles
Self-driving cars have captured the public’s imagination and represent one of the greatest symbols of the IoT Next Industrial Revolution. Soon, automated vehicles (AV) will get people and goods from point A to point B at a degree of speed, efficiency, availability and safety never imagined. The potential benefits of AV have been well-documented, including the reduction or even elimination of accidents, traffic congestion or the need to waste valuable space on roads or parking. But in the mundane reality of the present day, three barriers to AV deployments impede the advancement of AV technology beyond cost and access to technology. These are the presence of outdated regulations, the overlapping jurisdiction over roadways by different agencies and government entities, and the lack of access to vital data that support the advancement of AV technology.
