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TeleNav in the Big Apple for Pepcom Event
Jun 23rd
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Loading ...With so many exciting things happening at TeleNav these days, we decided to hit the road and show everyone what we’ve been working on here in Sunnyvale. Right now, Mary Beth Lowell and I are in New York City preparing for tomorrow evening’s Pepcom Digital Experience event. The gang at Pepcom always hosts wonderful events, so we’re certainly looking forward to the festivities and meeting with many of the reporters living in the New York area.
If any reporters in the area have time to grab a drink and chat with Mary Beth and me about what we’ve got going on at TeleNav these days in a little less crowded environment than the Pepcom event, drop us a line and we’d be happy to meet up today or tomorrow while we’re in the city.
NYC Uses TeleNav Track to Keep City Clean
Jan 31st
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Today we announced that New York City is using TeleNav Track to help clean up the city. Here’s a link to a news story and video on the program.
City inspectors drive three-wheeled scooters around the city looking for things like graffiti, potholes and garbage. When they see incidents like this, they enter it into their AT&T BlackBerry and our service marks the location using GPS. This information is then sent to the appropriate organization within the city to take care of the problems.
This use of TeleNav Track is pretty ingenious and is a great example of how GPS can be a technologically advanced solution for an age-old problem. NYC’s program (called SCOUT – short for Street Conditions Observation Unit) is the brainchild of Mayor Bloomberg but could certainly be mimicked in other cities.
Here is an interesting article I found in Reader’s Digest on the dirtiest cities in the US.
Here is the list:
Portland (OR)
San Jose
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Buffalo
Columbus
San Francisco
Some of this has to do with air and water quality which TeleNav Track unfortunately won’t fix but it also takes into account things like pollution and sanitation. Perhaps some of these cities can consider looking at NYC’s program as a best practice.
Kudos to NYC which is at the very bottom of this list!
