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Targeting the frontline worker who requires an easy-to-use device with performance, Honeywell has released the Dolphin CT50 mobile computer in Australia and New Zealand.

The CT50 promises to streamline operations and maximise worker efficiencies in transport and logistics, field service, direct store delivery, and warehouse environments.

With a modern all-touch interface, the Dolphin CT50 is said to enable mobile workers to achieve a new level of productivity and efficiency for scan-intensive applications. It allows workers to maximise efficiencies in mission-critical activities, including improving route efficiency, ensuring more accurate delivery windows, heightening the level of service to customers in the field with real-time scheduling, and more effectively responding to customer requests and requirements.

As part of the European DESERVE project, VTT (www.vtt.fi/), Iveco Finland and TTS-Kehitys Oy are developing a new software platform that will bring autonomous driving features to trucks. The truck of the future will sense nearby obstacles and possible safety risks, and inform the driver. The vehicle will also monitor driving behaviour and draw the driver’s attention to possible hazardous situations.

The DESERVE (DEvelopment platform for Safe and Efficient dRiVE) project coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd involves the development of new types of software platforms, to which the ‘senses’ required by vehicles, such as cameras, radar and laser scanners, are connected. The platform enables software components and sensors to be connected to the vehicle’s systems without compromising their reliability.