Big Data and Analytics
Ford is leveraging its OpenXC platform to help learn how customers are using their vehicles, and is conducting analytics to detect patterns and learnings that can lead to product improvements or new mobility services.
Palo Alto-based engineers are also expanding their research to develop sensor kits to gather information from bicycles and other common forms of transportation in urban areas. The devices gather data including wheel speed, acceleration and altitude. The data could provide insight into how alternate modes of transportation might be best positioned to serve future urban mobility needs.
With the Research and Innovation Center located in Palo Alto Ford also hopes to further existing relationships in San Francisco Bay Area technology companies and universities, as well as grow new connections, scout new technologies and collaborate on solutions for future mobility challenges.
We’ve also seen a video…
AOL sent over presenter Jonathan Buckley from its Translogic team to speak to Ford’s President and CEO, Mark Fields, as well as the company’s VP of research and advanced engineering, Ken Washington, and Raj Nair, group VP of global product development, to get an insight into the facility’s main objectives and have a closer look at the Ford GT supercar and how the Research and Innovation center influenced its development.
