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Rekor, a company specializing in traffic management and public safety analytics, has partnered with NVIDIA to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing to improve roadway safety. The collaboration promises to revolutionize the way cities manage their roads by reducing fatalities and improving quality of life.
Rekor has partnered with NVIDIA to improve roadway safety using artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing.The collaboration aims to reduce fatalities, rubbernecking, pileups, and jams by providing real-time video understanding and edge AI capabilities.NVIDIA Metropolis, a cloud-based platform, is being used to accelerate smart infrastructure development through vision AI.Rekor's solutions have already shown promising results in Austin, Texas, increasing incident detections by 159% and reducing response times by 8.5 minutes.The partnership highlights the potential for AI and edge computing to transform traffic management, enabling faster and more effective responses to incidents.
Rekor Taps NVIDIA Metropolis, NVIDIA AI, and Jetson for Roadway Safety, Traffic Relief
The city of Austin, Texas, has been experiencing a significant influx of residents in recent years, drawing people to its vibrant music scene, comedy clubs, barbecue joints, and a host of other attractions. While this growth has brought numerous benefits, it has also placed a strain on the city's infrastructure, particularly when it comes to traffic management. The Texas Department of Transportation has been working diligently to address this issue, investing $7 billion in digital infrastructure aimed at meeting the growing demand on roadways.
Enter Rekor, a company that specializes in traffic management and public safety analytics, which has recently partnered with NVIDIA to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing to improve roadway safety. The collaboration between Rekor and NVIDIA is the latest development in an ongoing story for traffic safety and traffic management, one that promises to revolutionize the way cities manage their roads.
Rekor's efforts in Texas and Philadelphia aim to reduce fatalities and improve quality of life by leveraging NVIDIA's Metropolis, a cloud-based platform designed to accelerate smart infrastructure development through vision AI. This application framework provides developers with a range of tools, including the NVIDIA DeepStream SDK, NVIDIA TAO Toolkit, pretrained models on the NVIDIA NGC catalog, and NVIDIA TensorRT. By tapping into this technology, Rekor is able to provide real-time video understanding and edge AI capabilities using NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX modules.
For Rekor, the benefits of partnering with NVIDIA are clear-cut. "Internally, we'll use it for data annotation, and it will help us optimize different aspects of our day-to-day," said Shai Maron, senior vice president of global software and data engineering at Rekor. "LLMs externally will help us calibrate our cameras in a much more efficient way and configure them." The company's efforts are focused on deploying NVIDIA's full-stack accelerated computing for roadway intelligence, as well as adopting NVIDIA AI and NVIDIA AI Blueprints, which serve as reference workflows for generative AI use cases built with NVIDIA NIM microservices.
NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform is the backbone of Rekor's AI-powered traffic management solutions. This platform provides developers with an easy-to-use inference microservice for accelerating deployments of foundation models on any cloud or data center while keeping data secure. According to Shai Maron, multiple large language models and vision language models are running on NVIDIA Triton Inference Server in production.
Rekor's solutions aim to reduce rubbernecking, pileups, fatalities, and jams by providing rapid identification of traffic events and zones of concern through its AI-driven platform for traffic management centers. This platform offers departments of transportation with real-time situational awareness and alerts that enable them to keep city roadways safer and more congestion-free.
In addition to this platform, Rekor's Discover product taps into the company's edge system to fully automate the capture of comprehensive traffic and vehicle data, providing robust traffic analytics that turn roadway data into measurable, reliable traffic knowledge. This enables departments of transportation to see a full picture of how vehicles move on roadways and the impact they make, allowing them to better organize and execute their future city-building initiatives.
Rekor has deployed its Command platform across Austin to help detect issues, analyze incidents, and respond to roadway activity in real-time. According to Paul-Mathew Zamsky, vice president of strategic growth and partnerships at Rekor, the deployment of this platform resulted in a 159% increase in incident detections, with response times reduced by eight and a half minutes.
"It helps save lives on the road, and it also helps people's quality of life, helps them get home faster and stay out of traffic," said Shervin Esfahani, vice president of global marketing and communications at Rekor. "For every minute an incident happens and stays on the road, it creates four minutes of traffic, which puts a strain on the road, and the likelihood of a secondary incident like an accident from rubbernecking massively goes up."
The success of this collaboration highlights the potential for AI and edge computing to transform the way cities manage their roads. By harnessing the power of NVIDIA's technology, Rekor is able to provide real-time video understanding and edge AI capabilities that enable traffic management centers to respond faster and more effectively to incidents.
In conclusion, the partnership between Rekor and NVIDIA marks an exciting development in the ongoing story for traffic safety and traffic management. By leveraging NVIDIA Metropolis, NVIDIA AI, and Jetson, Rekor is able to provide real-time video understanding and edge AI capabilities that enable traffic management centers to respond faster and more effectively to incidents.
Related Information:
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rekor-metropolis-ai-jetson-roadway-safety/
Published: Tue Nov 5 12:25:33 2024 by llama3.2 3B Q4_K_M
