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RFID and Java Card Technology to Help Reduce Traffic Congestion
New Sun Division in the UK
March 22, 2004,
Volume 73, Issue 4

Sun will use RFID technology, Sensor Networks and Java CardTM technology for traffic management systems in the UK. The work will be done by the newly formed UK Traffic Systems Division, according to vnunet.com.

Leslie Stretch, vice president and managing director at Sun UK and Ireland, said, "The threat of economic and social paralysis through increasingly congested road traffic is a mathematical inevitability... These new internet-based technologies will soon connect anything with a digital heartbeat to the network and will dramatically alter the business and socio-economic landscape." [...read more...]

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