In the 2019 Boeing 737 Max crash, the recovered black box from the aftermath hinted that a failed pressure sensor may have caused the ill-fated aircraft to nose dive. This incident and others have fueled a larger debate on sensor selection, number and placement to prevent the reoccurrence of such
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The Nigerian Federal government has removed right-of-way charges (RoW) for telcos to lay fibre-optic cables on federal highways around the country. This is part of ongoing reforms by the government to boost Internet connectivity. Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Communications announced this on Thursday, August 20, 2020, dubbing it a government palliative
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Cities across Asia are growing exponentially, and there seems to be no end in sight to the rapid urbanization that is driving city populations up around the world’s largest continent. Large influxes of people migrating from the countryside to urban centers means that road and traffic systems are constantly being tested
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AirAsia is embracing robotic process automation (RPA), with the help of enterprise automation platform provider JIFFY.ai. The airline conducted a review of its internal processes and workflows, which showed clear areas that could benefit from business process automation. The company has been working with JIFFY.ai to implement an artificial intelligence-enabled automation platform,
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The Covid-19 pandemic will accelerate digital transformation of the rail industry in Africa, says Hao Guoqiang, President of Global Transportation Development Department in the Huawei Enterprise Business Group. He was speaking at the first Africa Digital Rail Forum 2020 that took place online on the 19 August. The event was hosted
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Streams of cool jazz seep from the ceiling speakers, massaging Travelstart’s reception room like a healing balm. In the open office area split by glass panes into a conference room, a call centre for recovery, and a corner for finance and marketing, some staff don masks and appear to be socially-distanced.
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Bridgestone has brought its low rolling resistance tyre technology called ENLITEN to the roads in Volkswagen’s all-electric ID.3 ENLITEN Technology enables a super low rolling resistance to help conserve the ID.3’s battery power. Battery power is also conserved by the fact that tyres with ENLITEN Technology are lighter, requiring up to 2kg
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In this era of technology, the use of lasers has a very vast application in highway engineering. It is used for various purposes like road profiling, pavement surface deflection, bridge deflection, speed checkers, etc. These techniques have eased human efforts by making it simple and easy to use. If compared to
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In early March, Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremarium told an aviation conference in Addis Ababa the coronavirus pandemic was “a temporary problem” – comparable to a natural disaster or a spike in oil prices. Now, several weeks later Africa’s largest flight carrier is locked in what Tewolde is describing as “a
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Flying taxis might sound too sci-fi to be serious, but the pedigree of firms investing in the emerging space shows it’s anything but a joke. From leading automakers such as Toyota, Uber, Hyundai, Airbus, and Boeing, to startups like Kitty Hawk and Lilium, all are vying to be the first to
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