Ford and IBM create experimental Ford Smart Mobility Experimentation Platform

IBM and Ford launched a joint project called the Ford Smart Mobility Experimentation Platform. The project itself is an experimental platform that uses IBM analytical services. The basis is the IBM Cloud .

This service, using IBM analytics, receives and processes data from various cars and urban systems in any way related to the automotive industry. All incoming information is analyzed almost in real time, and the result is structured data that can help both motorists and public transport.

Thanks to this service, a motorist can find, for example, the least busy road leading in the right direction, or free parking. The main objective of the project is the optimization of traffic flows in large cities. If we take the same parking lots as an example, then motorists will be able to receive notifications about free parking spaces on their mobile devices. Also, if desired, the user of the system will be able to study detailed statistical data on this issue.
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The system will receive information from cars that are parked, or, conversely, leave the parking lot. In this case, the system will be able to analyze the flow of such information to predict the availability of free space in a particular region. The accuracy of the forecast will be enhanced by adding various parameters, including the time of day and the coordinates of the current location of the vehicle.

If all roads are loaded, the user will be able to get advice on how to get to a relatively close location in another way. For example, on a bicycle. If desired, the user of the system will receive data on the nearest bicycle rental points, which sometimes can be very helpful.

Perhaps the Ford Smart Mobility Experimentation Platform will be able to reduce the number of traffic jams on the busiest roads in large and medium-sized cities. Now we are talking only about the beginning of such work, nevertheless, this already allows us to talk about creating the infrastructure of a smart city.



The test version of the platform is used in the service of short-term car rental for urban travel Dynamic Shuttle . This service Ford has been testing since 2015 in Dearborn, Michigan, USA.