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City of Austin Partners with NTT to Accelerate Smart City Technologies
The City of Austin and NTT Corporation (NTT) today
announced their intention to partner on an Accelerate
Smart pilot project that will use new technologies to
analyze traffic patterns, ease congestion and support
community planning in Austin.
NTT’s Accelerate Smart data platform, as well as modular
data center infrastructure for edge deployments, will
monitor traffic-related issues downtown using Internet of
Things (IoT) devices deployed at the intersections of Cesar
Chavez Street and Trinity Street and Neches Street and 8th
Street. The smart city project will collect traffic-related and
mobility data through vehicle counting and classification,
as well as wrong way vehicle occurrences, to provide real-
time notifications and better inform how to implement
appropriate solutions to fit traffic patterns.
“We are piloting NTT because these solutions have the
potential to help Austin digitally transform how people
move safely through the city. By better understanding the
data and causal effects of problems we see in challenging
areas, we can develop effective solutions that meet the
community’s needs,” said Jason JonMichael, Assistant
Director of Smart Mobility, Austin Transportation.
“Evaluating data is key to reaching our Vision Zero goal of
eliminating fatalities and serious injuries on Austin
roadways. Smart technologies like this one will help us
prioritize improvements to make our streets safer.”
Using IoT, NTT will deliver the City real-time alerts and
traffic statistics that improve predictions and outcomes for
the City of Austin. The Accelerate Smart service will collect
and detect data, including vehicle counts and occurrences
of wrong-way driving, to enable the City to make informed
recommendations for effective transportation planning
aligned with the Vision Zero initiatives.
The pilot program is designed to provide automated
deployment and operation of necessary information and
communications technology (ICT) resources from devices
and networks to the cloud. This will allow the City to focus
on improving traffic conditions through analysis and
process data more efficiently without worrying about
deployment and optimization issues.
“For the City of Austin, traffic management is a critical
component to minimize the challenges of rapid, significant
growth,” said Akira Shimada, Senior Executive Vice
President, NTT. “Our Accelerate Smart solution will help the
City of Austin in their pursuit of pedestrian safety goals and
position them for continued innovation to improve the lives
of residents and visitors.”
NTT’s Accelerate Smart solution was developed as a joint
initiative across NTT’s global operating companies. It uses a
secure, distributed network as a platform solution built on
NTT’s innovative Cognitive Foundation™ architecture, and
also incorporates hyperconverged infrastructure and IoT
gateways, as well as virtualization software hosting
predictive analytics applications.
Following the initial pilot, the City of Austin and NTT plan to
evaluate the viability of extending the pilot and potentially
adding locations. To learn more about NTT’s Accelerate Smart solution,
