America’s transportation infrastructure urgently requires modernization to address issues such as road safety, bridge integrity, and proactive maintenance. Traditional monitoring methods using sensors and cameras have proven reactive, limiting their effectiveness in preempting issues.
Now, as IoT and AI sensors are added to highways and byways, the question is: do state and local governments have the necessary supporting infrastructure in place to optimize the value that these next generation of sensors can deliver?
Adopting IoT and AI technologies presents a strategic advantage for state and local governments. It enhances proactive infrastructure management, reduces costs, improves public safety, and fosters long-term community and economic benefits. By adding the network infrastructure needed to optimize data transmission as these sensors are deployed state and local governments can optimize the value of their investments.
In the latest episode of the Government Technology Insider podcast, host, Lucas Hunsicker is joined by Josh Finke, Senior Vice President for Public Sector at Lumen and Mark Pittman, Founder of Blyncsy and Senior Director of Transportation AI at Bentley Systems, to discuss how AI can make our highways and byways safer, but also why the right backbone and infrastructure need to be in place first to deliver success.
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