{"id":31255,"date":"2021-10-22T08:17:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T13:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=31255"},"modified":"2021-10-22T08:17:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T13:17:10","slug":"usps-vehicles-collect-data-for-geospatial-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2021\/10\/22\/usps-vehicles-collect-data-for-geospatial-project\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS vehicles collect data for geospatial project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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USPS says “USPS geospatial technology could provide significant insights about broadband access and could help the organization generate new revenue.”<\/em><\/p>\n

USPS Link<\/a> – 10\/22\/21 – The Postal Service recently teamed with Ericsson, a leading information and communications technology provider, to collect geospatial radio spectrum data in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Geospatial\u00a0data is used to digitally map locations for electronic navigation applications.<\/p>\n

The Ericsson test specifically mapped\u00a0radio spectrum<\/em><\/a>, including spectrum used for location-based applications.<\/p>\n

Three postal vehicles in San Francisco were equipped with special smartphones that captured data as they traveled along three city routes for several weeks.<\/p>\n

Postal employees Kasey Quellette, Chao Wen and Daniel Xu drove the vehicles, while California 1 District Manager Abraham Cooper, who served as the local postmaster at the time, and Robin Stahmer, a customer services manager who recently retired, supervised the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see other [geospatial] vehicles going around San Francisco every day. So I was very excited to see us do this. It was a good partnership. We were only in the city, but we could also broaden the scope with rural carriers in rural areas,\u201d Cooper said.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service and Ericsson are currently reviewing the results, which could provide significant insights about broadband access and help USPS generate new revenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe learned where there is an ability to connect and where there isn\u2019t and how disparate Internet connectivity is,\u201d said Lucinda Rockemore, a digital solutions business specialist for the Postal Service.<\/p>\n

Deployed on a larger scale, the radio spectrum project could be beneficial to the approximately 40 million Americans who are without broadband access, which hinders internet-based communication, education and employment opportunities.<\/p>\n

The test also highlighted how the Postal Service\u2019s vast network of delivery routes can be used to help companies like Ericsson or government agencies conduct geospatial projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we are meeting our universal service obligation, the Postal Service can use its fleet to earn additional revenue and improve the communities that we serve,\u201d Rockemore said.<\/p>\n

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USPS says “USPS geospatial technology could provide significant insights about broadband access and could help the organization generate new revenue.” USPS Link – 10\/22\/21 – The Postal Service recently teamed with Ericsson, a leading information and communications technology provider, to collect geospatial radio spectrum data in San Francisco. Geospatial\u00a0data is used to digitally map locations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31258,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31255\/revisions\/31258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}