Smart City Updates
Atlanta Smart Corridor emerged as a smart solutions R&D hub
Atlanta's new Smart Corridor has emerged as a research and development hub to scale successful technology solutions across the city. The Smart Corridor which runs roughly five miles along North Avenue in downtown Atlanta has become the test bed for autonomous cars, an incubator for connectivity solutions and an expansion point for the Internet of Things. Smart traffic signals, intelligent street lights, wireless vehicle-to-infrastructure solutions and autonomous cars are most noteworthy solutions being piloted here. Kirk Talbott, the executive director of the smart city initiative SmartATL maintains that, “It is not just an innovation zone where we’re attempting to throw a bunch of technology at it and see how it operates but it’s also about trying to figure out which technology actually moves the needle the most in terms of the things that matter to our city: public safety, mobility, operational efficiency and whatnot.”
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