{"id":62915,"date":"2019-03-04T23:44:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kymeta-brings-smartbus-program-to-peru-2\/"},"modified":"2019-03-04T23:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:44:19","slug":"kymeta-brings-smartbus-program-to-peru-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kymeta-brings-smartbus-program-to-peru-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kymeta Brings SmartBus Program to Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kymeta<\/strong> brought a&nbsp;hybrid, one-source connectivity platform to Peru during a recent pilot program. Kymeta, with the help of its partners <strong>Intelsat<\/strong>, <strong>Cubic Telecom<\/strong>, and <strong>Cradlepoint<\/strong>, worked with <strong>Airbus<\/strong> to create the SmartBus project, in partnership with the<strong> World Bank<\/strong> and with the support of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Peru (MTC). The project aims to gather data on road safety and other statistics to improve Peru\u2019s transportation while connecting people in difficult geographical areas of Peru.<\/p>\n<p>Buses owned by <strong>Tepsa<\/strong> were outfitted with Kymeta satellite terminals that leveraged satellite capacity from Intelsat, cellular coverage from Cubic Telecom, and a software-defined wireless Wireless Access Network (WAN) solution from Cradlepoint. Utilizing Kymeta\u2019s hybrid satellite-cellular solution, the SmartBus is helping enable uninterrupted connectivity in the country\u2019s rugged and isolated terrain, while gathering and transmitting data. This aims to help accelerate research into new technologies to provide connectivity to remote areas, along with satellite images provided by the <strong>Peruvian Space Agency<\/strong> (CONIDA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project is making a tangible contribution to development by connecting people in an extremely difficult geographical region of Peru,\u201d said World Bank&nbsp;Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru Director Alberto Rodr\u00edguez. \u201cThe critical insights we unearth from this trial will be used by research centers, universities and leading technology companies, helping them to identify problems and possible solutions relating to road safety, meteorology and transport logistics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kymeta brought a&nbsp;hybrid, one-source connectivity platform to Peru during a recent pilot program. Kymeta, with the help of its partners Intelsat, Cubic Telecom, and Cradlepoint, worked with Airbus to create the SmartBus project, in partnership with the World Bank and with the support of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Peru (MTC). The project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}