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Accuracy Matters
Having on-street parking sensors can be a huge benefit to the communities we live in. They save us time and money and make our lives easier – but only if they work correctly. If a sensor wrongly thinks a car has left its space and resets the parking meter, the...
Why Smart City Tech Should Be on Your Radar
There’s a lot of information out there about smart city technology, so let’s cut through the noise: It’s about to see some serious expansion. By 2023, the global smart city tech market is expected to be worth about $27.5 billion a year, up from the $8.8 billion it...
How Far Do We Really Drive While Looking for Parking?
Have you ever thought about how many miles you log while you’re looking for parking? In just one day near the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, drivers rack up more mileage looking for parking than the distance of a trip across the United States. An article in March’s...
‘It’s Not About the Leaves Above – It’s About the Systems Below’
When you think about a green city, what comes to mind? As “Carbon Zero” author and sustainable-city expert Alex Steffen says in this TED Talk from a few years ago, we mainly perceive a sustainable city as one covered in greenery – tree-lined streets and plants on...
How Sitting in Traffic Costs Us 5.5 Billion Hours a Year
Here’s something that’s not shocking: You spend a lot of time in traffic. What’s shocking is just how much. The Department of Transportation says people spend about 5.5 billion hours in traffic per year, racking up about $120 billion in lost time and cost,...
What the Smartest Smart Cities in the U.S. Are Doing Right
Smart cities are what Fybr is all about. That means improving the communities we live in by making them more convenient, efficient and full of life. As Forbes reports, a New York think tank called the Intelligent Community Forum has released its list of seven...
2015: The Year of The Internet of Things
Life can be broken down into numbers: How many hours of sleep you get a night, how many degrees your thermostat is set to, how many steps you take in a day. When we can accurately record and keep track of that data, we can use it to help us live better. And this is...
Better Parking. Better Communities.
Across the country, parking spots always seem to be in short supply. In fact, nearly 30 percent of all traffic in busy urban areas is due to people circling while looking for parking. That means wasted time, wasted gas, more pollution and more street congestion....
Fybr Enforce – Next Generation of Parking Enforcement
No one likes parking tickets, but at Fybr we know that a few bad drivers can ruin things for everyone. Fair enforcement of parking rules can help keep streets clear and safe – addressing hazards such as double parked vehicles, blocked handicapped zones or fire...
Making Cities Better – Making Cities Smarter
At Fybr, we are passionate about what we do. We have spent more than two years working to create a highly accurate, long-lived, parking sensor. It must be a labor of love - to spend two years developing a parking sensor (spending two years to do anything for that...
