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Insurance Premium Prediction for Smartly Insured Vehicles

Enhancing Accuracy and Safety with Telematics-Based Insurance Premium Prediction Insurance premium prediction is an important aspect of the insurance industry, as it helps insurance companies determine the cost of coverage for a particular policy. This process involves analyzing various factors that can impact the likelihood of a claim being filed, including the vehicle’s age and …

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Biometric Tracking for Driver Monitoring

Driver Monitoring: Enhancing Safety with Comprehensive Monitoring and AI Driver Monitoring: According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the United States, human error is the cause for 94% of serious accidents. Furthermore, according to the association for safe international road travel, approximately 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year. Accidents represent …

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Challenges faced in power-to-heat sector coupling and how to optimize them

Optimizing Power-to-Heat Sector Coupling Challenges faced in power-to-heat sector : In many scenarios within centralized power sectors, such as the waste of excess energy from data centers’ processor heat, high-temperature steam from thermal power plants, the waste stream of biofuels, heating of batteries, and other high energy density materials occurs. One possibility to reutilize this …

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Cybersecurity in the MaaS Ecosystem

The Transformation of the Automotive Sector Cybersecurity in the MaaS Ecosystem: The automotive sector is going through an unprecedented radical transformation involving digitalisation, the Internet of Things (IoT), urbanisation, and autonomous technology. These technological trends are completely disrupting business models and reshaping this sector. There are currently three interconnected processes: 1.) New servicing options are …

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Direct Air Capture - WhatNext

Focus areas for the development and commercial deployment of Direct Air Capture (DAC)

Direct Air Capture Policy support and increased investment are critical to boosting the deployment of Direct Air Capture (DAC) over the next decade. This support should target the opportunity to reduce the costs of DAC, refine Direct Air Capture technologies, and boost global understanding of the technical and economic potential of DAC to support net-zero …

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solar roadways to conventional Asphalt roads

A Comparison of Solar Roadways to Conventional Asphalt Roads

Solar Roadways to Conventional Asphalt Roads – Air pollution, which experts consider one of the most significant environmental health risks, causes approximately 4.2 million deaths worldwide each year due to serious illnesses. Mobility and transportation, particularly vehicles on the road, contribute significantly to these statistics by accounting for 8 million metric tonnes of CO2 emissions …

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Biochemical activities impacting hydrogen storage in salt caverns

Biochemical activities impacting hydrogen storage in salt caverns

Biochemical activities impacting hydrogen storage in salt caverns Hydrogen Storage In Salt Caverns – Microbes Hydrogen Storage in Salt Caverns – Microbes that inhabit the earth’s subsurface are vast in their diversity. Microorganisms may be found in vast quantities in as much as 104 and 108 per gram of rock. Hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and …

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Adoption of 3D Printing | Automotive Industry | WhatNext

Challenges Faced In The Adoption of 3D Printing In Automotive Industry

Additive Manufacturing – Adoption of 3D Printing   A successful technology poised to change many industries is a successful technology, including the automotive industry. Many automobile companies like BMW, Ford, Porsche, Volvo and GM use 3D printing to manufacture different vehicle parts. However, the utilization of AM is far from widespread, and there are several …

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How Grids are Utilizing Large-Scale Batteries to Integrate Renewables

Utilizing Large Scale Batteries to Integrate Renewables   The incorporation of renewable energy into the grid comes with several difficulties. The intermittent nature of renewable energy sources is one of the major obstacles. Solar and wind energy output is weather-dependent and unpredictable, therefore the amount of electricity production might vary significantly. Due to this, it …

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