Clean Break Podcast: Skymeter
My Clean Break podcast today is an interview with Kamal Hassan, chief executive of Toronto-based Skymeter Corp., which I wrote about briefly in an earlier post. Hassan talks about his company’s vehicle location billing technology, which is based on satellite tracking, and how it could be used to implement downtown congestion charges, pay-as-you-drive insurance plans, and CO2-based parking schemes. The opportunities are huge, and Skymeter has already attracted the attention of London, Toronto and major cities across North America. I urge you to listen, if only because Hassan is quite passionate about the technology and articulates its potential quite convincingly.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca