Waze drives industries; offer software development kit – Excelsior (blog)

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MEXICO CITY

The transportation companies are not the only ones who can benefit from knowing how long it takes to get to a place, knowing the best routes or where there are bottlenecks, so Waze takes this opportunity by putting a development kit software in the hands of anyone who wants to innovate.

to Paulo Cabral, responsible growth Waze in Latin America, this kit will provide businesses concerned about the estimated time of arrival or vials alternatives, which can empower them to optimize their services and grow the business.

“we started with six allies several countries, and then allow entering more. The important thing is that those concerned meet certain criteria like having in their DNA innovation, the ability to scale your business and offer more information and feedback, and share the mission of improving the service, “he explained in an interview with Excelsior .

Cabral said the called Waze Transport SDK for Android and iOS is used by two allies in Mexico, is Cabify, a company that transports people and Cornershop, which is responsible for distributing products.

in his view, the use of this software development kit may impact on other industries and improve the lives of people in many ways. Everything will depend on innovation and new ideas.

The best example is that one of the first partners that are in the United States, Genesis Press, use the kit to optimize routes ambulance.

“with the tools of Waze can see which ambulance is closest to the accident, save time and perhaps even save lives,” he confided.

While another example is in the UK where a company parking is cashing in on the road information.

projects

Cabral said that the mission of Waze is to help the mobility of people and therefore also have a project called Connected Citizens Program , in exchanging information on traffic situations more than 55 partners that can be federal or municipal governments, STATE,.

for example, in Mexico and have two allies to this program, which are the Miguel Hidalgo and Puebla.

he added that there are other opportunities being analyzed, such as carpooling , it is meaning that several people, although not known, share the same car to move.

in fact, Israel already have an application called Waze Rider which functions as a service carpooling and soon begin to test it in California.

Opportunities

With regard to Mexico, Cabral said it is a very important country for the company by size of cities and the number of bottlenecks that exist, that although there is a new traffic regulations prohibiting use a cell while driving. “There are more services.”