Smart Transport

Virtual Assistant Summit

How Booking.com Are Using AI to Alleviate the Stress of Travel

Booking a hotel can be stressful, let alone booking an entire holiday. From pricing to location, facilities and all the extras you might need how do you know where to start and how...

Deep Learning

Can AI Alleviate The Stress of Your Summer Holiday?

Who doesn’t love a summer holiday? Whether it’s a staycation, or you’re packing up the whole family to jet off for some summer sun, it’s something we look forward...

Machine Learning

Creating High-capacity Ride-Sharing With Autonomous Transportation

Image source: UberRide-sharing services are transforming urban mobility by providing timely and convenient transportation to anybody, anywhere, and anytime.  Thanks to the global popularity of apps like Lyft and Uber, there are now...

Deep Learning

How One Boston Startup is Overcoming Flight Delays and Cancellations

Over the last year, Boston has seen its tech scene flourish, and when our team headed out for the Deep Learning Summit and the Deep Learning in Healthcare Summit at the end of...

Future Cities

How Can We Plan for Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Environments?

Offering increased productivity, accessibility, efficiency, a more positive impact on the environment, and the potential for additional safety, autonomous vehicles are widely regarded as the future of urban transportation. But how can self-driving...

Machine Learning

Autonomous Vehicles Need Superhuman Perception For Success

For self-driving cars and other smart transport to be successfully integrated in the real-world, the safety of passengers and pedestrians must be ensured. In the world of intelligent machines, perception answers the question:...

Machine Learning

Visual Localization & Mapping for Autonomous Driving

Image source: V-Charge Project by ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems LabThe battle against climate change needs new mobility concepts, and advancing autonomous electric vehicles could be key in the global mission to reduce CO2...

Neural Networks

Self-Driving Cars: the Tech & the Roadblocks

Image source: Driver Gaze Classification by Lex Fridman.With successful development, self-driving car could be the most important breakthrough in the coming decades. As cities begin to make way for autonomous vehicles, the...

Neural Networks

Creating the Open-Source Autonomous Vehicle

As the race to create the first fully autonomous, road-safe vehicle continues, numerous road-blocks and challenges are pushing companies to find new innovative solutions.Successful development of autonomous vehicles requires a wide variety...

Smart Transport

Women in STEM: Interview with Julie Choo

I first met Julie Choo, a techpreneur and author, at the Deep Learning Summit in London. When I learnt of her interest and research in autonomous vehicles I invited her to participate at...

Big Data

Building the Foundation of the Autonomous Vehicle

While tech companies battle to be the first to create fully autonomous vehicles, there is a quiet evolution happening in the background that is building the foundation for these vehicles: data collection, with...

Deep Learning

Improving Reinforcement Learning With Minecraft

Using games to train machine learning models has proven to be increasingly successful in recent years, and has helped to spread public understanding of algorithms and deep learning methods through mainstream media coverage,...

Machine Learning

Accelerating Tech: the Future of Autonomous Vehicles

The technologies driving forward a new era of autonomous vehicles have been accelerating exponentially in the past few years. The futuristic cars that until recently were only found in science fiction could be...

Energy

The Inevitable Marriage of Solar Energy & Transport

Since creating Stella, a solar-powered family car designed to travel over 1,000 kilometres on a single charge, Solar Team Eindhoven has received world wide notoriety and success, including World Solar Challenges and...

Big Data

Challenges of Stakeholder Engagement for a Truly Connected City

Finding the time and space for everyone to meet to present, properly understand and then discuss a project can be time-consuming and difficult. Many online collaboration solutions provide for communications within a project...

Machine Learning

Visionary Cars: With Deep Learning, Autonomous Cars Get Smarter as They Drive

This guest article was written by Susan Kuchinskas, a journalist and author who covers science and technology. Visit her website to read more of her articles here.Driverless cars will need to make...

Big Data

Future Cities & Smart Citizens: Envisioning the Connected City of the Future

Discover how sensors, robotics, collective intelligence and a network of connected devices are disrupting future cities. The 3rd annual RE.WORK Connected City Summit will showcase the latest technology advancements across IoT, sensors,...

Connected Home

RE.WORK Connect: Shaping a Hyper-connected World

With the increasing digital interconnection of things, people and places, we are moving towards a hyper-connected world. It's estimated the number of things connected to the Internet will reach 50 billion by 2020....

Design & UX

This Smart Solar-Powered Car Creates More Energy Than It Consumes

Named by Forbes as the world’s most inventive city, Eindhoven has defined itself a a hub of innovation and creativity, hitting the headlines repeatedly in recent years.One such example of Eindhoven...

UAVs

Drones for Good: Delivering Off-Grid Healthcare

The usage of drones by companies and individuals is increasing exponentially, with new uses and applications hitting the headlines every day. But how can we use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to positively impact...

Energy

Leveraging Mobile Sensing to Drive Healthcare Efficiency

Smart transport is emerging as a massive opportunity for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Sensors are being applied in large numbers to vehicles, roadways and overall transport infrastructure, creating a hyper-connected system for...

Industrial Automation

Closing the Gap Between Gaming & the Automotive Industry

Applying new and emerging technologies, such as virtual reality engineering, is having an huge impact on problem solving and cutting costs, as well as creating an efficient new development process for the automotive...

Big Data

The Science of Traffic: Can IoT Help End Congestion?

Like most great ideas, they appear simple and logical once they’re created. INRIX is no different. When the company was founded nearly a decade ago, drivers and departments of transportation relied on...

Smart Transport

A $7 Trillion Opportunity: Introducing Boston's Next Generation of IoT Disruptors

IDC have predicted the Internet of Things (IoT) market will reach $7 trillion in just five years. However, despite this, a recent study found that 73% of companies have yet to make any...