Unblocking Barriers: Reducing Smart City Challenges with Edge and Vision AI on AITRIOS™

City’s Challenge

Through the presentation from San Jose City’s Ho Nguyen, we learned about the challenge for the city. There tends to be a focus on innovative technology, but using the latest technology is not solution enough for a city like San Jose. For San Jose, it was equally important to vet the practicality of the solution for a scalable deployment.

We can always enjoy cutting-edge technology in an impractical environment. We observe the quick focus on new technologies happening commonly throughout the industry. However, when people perform the Proof of Concept (PoC) projects in unpractical environments, it's sure to be a dead-end.

The city cares about how reasonable the solution is in terms of cost, installation, maintenance, and overall administration workload to implement. This process needed to be taken into careful consideration when proposing AITRIOS to the city.

Open Collaboration

Sony joined the Edge AI Foundation’s Pedestrian Safety hackathon last year as technology partner, and we have stayed involved in the community to help develop innovative solutions for the city. Instead of developing the solution by ourselves, we’ve also collaborated with other companies, to bring each company’s specialties together. That way we can build a better solution and have a better chance of introducing it to society on a wider scale.

Sony Semiconductor Solutions’ AITRIOS is open to collaboration with other companies as a means to build up the eco-system at scale. We plan to continue our open collaboration with the community and partners.

Working with the Edge AI Foundation

The Edge AI Foundation is leading the way to bring technology community and industry community together to stimulate the collaboration necessary to create innovation. Sony supports this direction and activations as much as possible as a sponsor.

We welcome any industry user to bring their challenge to Edge AI Foundation community, where we can work together to seek the solution with Edge AI’s specialist community all over the world.

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