AST Digital Magazine May 2016 | Page 38

Volume 4 • shoppers to the products on their smartphones, leading to increased sales and new data to help retailers analyze shopper behavior and improve store operations. Serraview: Businesses can visualize their space utilization to make better decisions on their real estate needs and provide just-in-time wayfinding tools to their employees. Intelligent Cities Partners • • • • BreezoMeter: By pairing Current’s microservices with BreezoMeter technology, cities gain intelligence around how traffic conditions impact the environment, giving planners actionable analytics to influence city mapping and climatechange initiatives. CivicSmart: This solution enables cities to efficiently manage parking infrastructure to unlock the value of their streets and drive growth in core business districts. Genetec: City, public safety and emergency responders have real-time views of what’s happening across town with live video feeds and analytics to help create safer, more secure environments. INRIX: No more circling the block looking for parking or wasting time stuck in traffic. INRIX is the preferred provider of parking and traffic intelligence to leading automakers, transportation agencies and third-party apps. Customers include Audi, BMW, Lexus, Toyota, more than 60 U.S. Departments of Transportation, the U.K. Highways Agency and the Danish Road Directorate. May 2016 Edition city’s economic development and quality of life, and will be part of a living lab that allows the city’s innovation team to study data to find new and innovative ways to service the city, its residents and its business community. The City of Cleveland is in the process of installing several dozen intelligent LED fixtures downtown to explore parking optimization and pedestrian safety crossing in high-traffic areas, as well as other potential outcomes. The installation comes as the city is making updates to infrastructure across town in preparation for the RNC this summer. To learn more, please visit www.ge.com. In addition to these collaborations, Current will host two upcoming hackathons to continue to deepen its Intelligent Environments app catalog. The first will tap into developers at the IoT World Conference and the second will be part of a virtual, public Hackathon starting May 16. Intelligent Installations In addition to the growth of its app catalog, Current is actively working with commercial, industrial and municipal customers across the world on intelligent infrastructure deployment. Tianjin, China; Schenectady, New York; and Cleveland are the latest cities to install Current’s energy-saving, intelligent LED street lights armed with sensors, software and other digitaldata capabilities as their core infrastructure for digital growth. Tianjin, China, is the first city in Asia to partner with Current to install intelligent LEDs with intelligent capabilities in one of their central business districts. The intelligent street lights build on features such as security cameras, routers for free Wi-Fi or digital screens that allow the city to broadcast critical messages, such as traffic reports.