Nvidia’s smart cities platform helps cities ease traffic congestion and allocate city services using a GPU-based intelligent monitoring tool.

One of the partners, Hikvision, has successfully used the platform to develop better products to find lost people in crowded places, combining a camera and video recorder with Nvidia cloud services and edge computing.

Shiliang Pu, president at Hikvision Research Institute, said: “The GPU’s outstanding performance and NVIDIA’s end-to-end AI and deep learning platform can be applied to video streams to create smarter applications for a variety of industries.”

Along with the announcement of two new partners, Nvidia also announced its new DeepStream software development kit that will simplify the development of video analytics from the cameras situated around cities, which is powered by deep learning and hyper scale data centres.

DeepStream allows video data to be processed, understood and categorised in real-time and meet the latency requirements.

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Alibaba will be using Nvidia’s smart cities platform to improve city governance services of urban planners, whilst Huawei and other partners using the platform are focusing around law enforcement applications.

Tingyong Liu, general manager of the video surveillance domain at Huawei, said: “Huawei video surveillance cooperates with NVIDIA and teams up with the Shenzhen Police for joint innovation, making cities more intelligent in the future.”
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