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IBM solutions selected to collect data during VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge(Telecomworldwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Information technology company IBM (NYSE:IBM) has announced that during the VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge (VIAC) its Human Centric solutions will be used to collect data on CO2 pollutants in the regions covered along the way. No financial details were disclosed. VIAC is a 13,000km journey from Parma, Italy to Shanghai, China, using unmanned, solar energy powered vehicles, which aims to showcase the benefits of green transport. IBM said that during the course of the drive its Human Centric Solutions will illustrate the data collecting potential of smartphones. VIAC vehicles will be equipped with specially-designed smartphones that monitor CO2 levels, providing a live stream of data to the web via twitter, @greenhaviour, throughout the journey. The data collected in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and China will be used to assess the health and environmental impact of CO2 in these areas. The technology used in the initiative is developed by IBM with the hardware support of SenSaris for the CO2 Bluetooth sensors. It is based on IBM Message Broker, WebSphere Application Server software and Tivoli Storage Manager and runs on the Android 2.1 mobile platform. The project ends 20 October 2010, following the arrival of the vans at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. Once the pilot is completed, IBM will use the project results to evaluate the solution for further applications, the company said. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS |