The currently ongoing Ice Hockey World Championship tournament provided an excellent opportunity for The City of Tampere to pilot an AI-based traffic monitoring solution, IoT-TICKET® Smart Mobility Insights around the Nokia Arena.
The solution collects anonymous data of people flows, which helps the city to understand the route choices of ice hockey fans and potential congestion points on the way. The excellent partner network enabled the efficient commissioning of the system – Signify, Edzcom, NVIDIA and Node Solutions being some of the partners with Wapice in the project.
Fluent city traffic boosts the experience economy in Tampere
The newly built Nokia Arena provides facilities for numerous experiences such as watching world-class ice hockey! The city of Tampere wishes to ensure the best possible visiting experience by providing fluent and safe traffic around the big events, and encourage both the Tampere residents and visitors to use the options of light transport.
Data makes it possible to increase the utilisation of light transport, since the effects of changes made in traffic arrangements can be monitored on the IoT platform in real time. The role of the IoT platform as the enabler of data-driven decision making is central: in addition to data acquisition, the platform is used to provide visual dashboards and combine different data sources.
Machine vision is a cost-effective solution for the city environment
Installing traditional traffic metering systems is often costly and time-consuming, but also their accuracy can be weak in use cases where the traffic is monitored from different angles, or there is a need to identify different vehicles.
IoT-TICKET® Smart Mobility Insights utilises the existing camera infrastructure and the streetside network of the City of Tampere. In addition to this, a private Mesh-network built in the area makes it possible to flexibly add new cameras in the area. Private Mesh- and 5G-networks are an important part of smart cities in the future as they increase the opportunities to sensor the city environment with great flexibility.
The City of Tampere has made a 10-year collaboration contract for IoT platform with Wapice and the AI solution implemented is one example of the platform use cases. Tampere plans to expand the use of the solution to increase data-driven traffic planning, where one of the biggest focus areas is to support carbon-neutral city mobility. The IoT platform has been built to support different data acquisition solutions, wireless network options and information system integrations, which enables flexible development of smart city solutions and reduces technology locks.
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Jari Kuusisto
Product Manager, IoT for Smart Cities
+358 44 5533512
jari.kuusisto@wapice.com
