Engineers Develop Inexpensive, Smart Stop Sign to Improve Driver Safety
Rural roads account for 70 percent of the nation's byways and the location for 54 percent of all fatalities, according to the Federal Highway Administration. Without access to a power supply, they are more likely than other roads to lack signals and active traffic signage.
To improve driver safety, Sara Ahmed and Samer Dessouky, professors in the UTSA College of Engineering, created a low-cost, self-powered intersection detection and warning system to alert rural motorists about potential dangers. The next-generation stop sign uses a multi-pixel passive infrared sensor that detects a vehicle as it approaches an intersection. Once the vehicle is within the sensing range, a signal beacon triggers the stop sign's flashing system.
Read the article at R&D.
What’s New at NAFA I&E in Louisville? Plenty.
There are some exciting changes and improvements for this year’s NAFA I&E in Louisville, and the networking and educational opportunities will be as bountiful as ever.
Book ‘Twitchy’ and Support the Fleet Industry
Tourette Syndrome isn’t often linked to fleet, however Stuart Ellis-Myers – a past NAFA Institute & Expo keynote speaker, three-year FLEXY Award emcee, and current board member of the NAFA Foundation – has found an intriguing way to incorporate them.
“Twitchy” – as Ellis-Myers is known – has developed a unique way he’s giving to the NAFA Foundation – and invites other fleet industry consultants to also weigh a similar approach for advancing the fleet industry.
AFLA Mini-MBA Program
When: August 11-17, 2019
Where: Bentley University - Waltham, Massachusetts
This week-long intensive course is designed for a small group of fleet professionals who are looking to advance their knowledge and grow as fleet leaders while also creating a close bond with their peers. Led by a group of professors who are highly experienced in the classroom and in the business world, this program is designed for current and future leaders in the fleet industry. Visit web page for full details.
The Internet of Things: One of Today’s Disruptive Battlefronts
By John Wysseier, President and Chief Executive Officer, The CEI Group, Inc.
Perhaps as dramatic an invention as the printing press, the internet has engendered revolutionary changes in the way people work, shop, learn, communicate, receive and share information.
For some industries – like newspapers and retailing -- it’s been a disruptive force that threatens the extinction of enterprises that rely on traditional technologies.
The key to this generational trend is that the internet connects people to each other, faster, with more abundant information than ever before. But, like a new life form that evolves rapidly, the internet has morphed to connect more than people to each other, but people to devices and even devices to other devices.
It’s called the Internet of Things – IoT for short -- and it’s become one of the latest new battlefronts for business. Like all battlefronts, it presents both opportunities and challenges for virtually every industry, and only those who win the battle to integrate with it successfully are likely to survive and thrive.
