world news - 25.07.2007
Swedish forest industry invests in broadband
Mr Bertil Lidén from the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden says
that the Institute forecasts annual savings of at least 400 million SEK
(44 million ˆ) when mobile broadband is available in the whole country.
Forest industry constitutes an important incentive for installing
mobile broadband in the whole country. That industry cannot fully
benefit from this technology until all forest areas are included in the
network.
At present forest industry's annual transport costs amount to about 4
billion SEK (440 million ˆ). The simple logic is that transports can be
managed much better when all operators concerned have full access to
current information concerning all felled trees. Trucks can fetch
timber at the right place and the right time and thus always work at
full capacity.
Upon an initiative from Sveaskog the major forest businesses in Sweden
plan a common infrastructure standard to be implemented already this
year. This technology can be installed in all forest machines and
trucks and then it will be possible to achieve great savings. However
Bertil Lidén forecasts that it will take at least three years before
the system can be fully operative.
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