RIT Fleet Telemetry Upgrade
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From around 2012, Curitiba's URBS equipped some 2,500 RIT buses — a network already using contactless smart cards since 2002 — with 3G-based M2M telemetry from Ericsson, Vivo and Dataprom, tracking routes, speeds and stop times live from a central control room across roughly 2.26 million rides each working day.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “RIT Fleet Telemetry Upgrade” — Curitiba, Brazil. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/curitiba-brt-telemetry/ (last verified 2026-07-16). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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