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Cloud-based Solution From City BrainĪlibaba, China’s biggest e-commerce retail company has branched into providing an AI system called City Brain to automate traffic management. This helps the traffic management to respond to critical situations more effectively, re-route the traffic if necessary and make roads safer for the public. The deployed solution detects incident 14 minutes faster than manually monitored by operators.
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Now, the city has the TrafficVision software deployed that identifies incidents in real-time such as accidents, wrong-way drivers, debris on the road and transmits video clips directly to the cloud. This being a difficult task to manage, the city deployed the solution from TrafficVision. Kansas City has more than 300 CCTV cameras installed on highways that are monitored just by three operators. Capturing the data and processing it from the existing camera infrastructure, TrafficVision can help traffic managers to respond to traffic incidents immediately – whether it is happening on highways, tunnels or bridges. The software developed by the company can turn any traffic monitoring camera into an intelligent sensor. TrafficVision is a startup in the US providing Intelligent Transportation Systems to smart cities. Image-processing Solution From Traffic Vision
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However, issues related to anonymous data, privacy and personal data are concerns for the authorities and the public.īut if the project proposed by FlowX is ready with the green signal from the authorities, smart cities will have a new way to manage traffic efficiently. Vivacity Labs uses machine learning and AI to manage traffic levels using their own sensors and cameras.įlowX aims at developing a low-cost solution by integrating the Vivacity software with the existing CCTV cameras. Going forward with machine learning, the system could learn to spot any incident and alert the control room instantly.īecause Cartwright could not do this alone, he approached London-based traffic software company Vivacity Labs for the project. Computers can help in identifying and counting the vehicles on the road and learn the flow of the traffic on a particular road. The control room has so many screens to monitor, that missing an accident could be easy – though traffic managers respond to incidents as quickly as possible.Ĭartwright believes that creating an intelligent, analytical system to extract data from CCTV cameras can potentially address the challenges faced in freeing up the roads. He also found that despite cameras installed at most major intersections, spotting of accidents could be difficult. Surprisingly, he found out that traffic data was limited, seldom automated and not suitable for the data age. His business was granted a £10,000 and office space in London.Ĭartwright began with visiting the traffic control centres in the major cities of UK. The programme was organised by Ordnance Survey (OS) that supports startups working with geolocation data. Recently, Cartwright co-founded a startup called ‘FlowX’ that was selected for the Geovation accelerator programme. The entrepreneur is actively engaged in developing a low-cost solution of using data to manage traffic easily. He participated in a business plan competition conducted by the Singapore Management University and won $2500 for a proposal that was based on the idea of managing traffic by tapping into the data extracted from CCTV cameras. A Low-Cost Solution From A GraduateĪfter graduating in Economics from the University of Cambridge (in 2017), a self-made entrepreneur, Richard Cartwright decided to do something independently. So, let’s check out the new ways to drive the roads more safely and effectively. Which one day may drive this reality to become a thing of the past. But there are some people who are finding out simple yet intelligent solutions to traffic jams. As the problem is increasing it seems that some of us have learnt to cope with it.
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In fact, even the economy of the city has to lose millions of dollars on the nuisance created by traffic jams. The ordeal is not just annoying but costly too – on our pockets and our health. This is the brutal reality every commuter faces in every city around the world – doesn’t matter whether you are from America or Europe, Asia or Africa. That is the height of annoyance you experience in a traffic jam. Your car is moving ahead inch by inch and you have no way but just wait. You are less than 10 minutes away from your destination and you are stuck in a gridlock from past 15 minutes.