Latin America. The goal is to combine Cisco's smart grids, computing and video management software and AGT's smart city software platform, gateway sensor and analytics, to encourage the implementation of technologies related to the Internet of Everything (IoE). The first solutions will be available in mid-2014, and will initially focus on two key areas: traffic management and urban safety.
Both companies seek to provide cost-effective and effective service delivery that improves citizens' daily lives and improves urban services, from transportation to health care, utility infrastructure, disaster preparedness, and personal safety.
Built on AGT's urban management platform, the solution applies multiple sensors and video and acoustic analysis technologies; social media; recognition of automotive and facial plates; mobile crowdsourcing; mobile apps for city workers; smart waste, and other sources.
The solution, which features Cisco Unified Computing System, uses big data analytics to reduce false alerts, while increasing the incident detection rate. The statement highlights that sharing a common platform, infrastructure and administration allows agencies to be more efficient and profitable, especially when working with reduced budgets. These benefits can be achieved in a city decentralization model, where agency autonomy is maintained while maximizing what is shared and reused.
Wim Elfrink, Executive VP of Industry Solutions and Director of Globalization at Cisco, said that currently "99% of the physical world is not connected to the Internet. However, cities are the epicenter of the Internet of Everything, where people, things, data and processes can be connected to deliver new and amazing value."
The first solutions will be available in mid-2014 and will initially focus on two key areas. The first, dedicated to the traffic administration, which will identify, respond and resolve incidents information in real time; it will support the detection of incidents, using live video sources from the affected areas. To do this, it will use analysis, wireless magnetic sensors, car license plate readers, social media and traffic model prediction.
