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Moscow clears record snowfall with IoT-enabled snowploughs

13 February 2018

by Jonathan Andrews

New technology installed in Moscow's street sweepers, snowploughs, waste trucks and water carts enabled it to clear a record 1.2 million cubic tonnes of snow which fell on the city in early February.

Over 22,000 of Moscow’s communal vehicles have been installed with a unified IoT platform allowing city officials to track routes, control speed, fuel consumption and operation mode of the vehicles. Artificial intelligence generates a daily scope of work for each vehicle based on the weather forecast. The new technology has also reduced fuel consumption, saving the city US$162,000 a month.

“All communal vehicles had been previously controlled by various vendors and institutional bodies,” Andre...

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