bitsensing, a provider of radar solutions, has announced the successful installation and activation of its traffic sensors at Porta Nuova, the historic gateway to Verona, Italy. This first-of-its-kind project is in collaboration with the City of Verona (Comune di Verona) and FAMAS SYSTEMS, a company specialising in intelligent mobility, road safety, environmental, and meteorological technologies.
The initiative is also part of the K-City Network Project, launched in 2020 by South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport. This project aims to develop smarter cities across the globe through partnerships with South Korean tech companies such as bitsensing. Verona is one of six international pilot projects selected through an open competition this year, with other participating countries including the United States, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
Big Data traffic solution
Porta Nuova is a key landmark in Verona, a city with over 700,000 residents in its metropolitan area. Constructed between 1532 and 1540 by the architect Michele Sanmicheli, it serves as a crucial traffic intersection, featuring five entrance lanes and six exit lanes, which often experience significant congestion.
The project, completed over the summer, now offers Verona’s traffic management team and urban planners unprecedented data and insights into traffic patterns. This enables the City of Verona to make informed decisions to ease congestion and enhance road safety in this bustling area.
bitsensing and its partners have installed ten Traffic Insight Monitoring Sensors (TIMOS) at Porta Nuova. These all-in-one traffic sensors integrate AI computing within an intelligent transport system (ITS) traffic control framework. The sensors collect and transmit data to a local operations centre supported by servers.
The data gathered includes traffic volumes, queue lengths, turning movements, vehicle classifications, and traffic flow patterns. This information is then visualised using bitsensing’s TraXight software on an interactive dashboard, providing Verona’s city operators with actionable insights to mitigate congestion and improve safety.
“The city of Verona takes part in the K-Smart City Network project thanks to the project developed together with the company FAMAS SYSTEM of Trento,” said Tommaso Ferrari, Councillor for the municipality of Verona for Ecological transition, Environment, Mobility, Relations with the Council, Three-year Public Works Plan, Coordination of Public Works and Complex Projects, Civil Construction. “From the K-Smart City network project, we expect a real-time analysis of traffic flows. Not only to know the traffic flows at individual intersections, but also the percentages of turns of individual manoeuvres. This is a support tool that allows us to better calibrate decisions to calibrate traffic light centralisation.”
“The City of Verona is highly proactive in adopting new ITS technologies,” added Young-Joong Yoon, Director of the Urban Economy Division at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Republic of Korea. “I sincerely hope that the ITS traffic control system being piloted will contribute to the development of Verona as a smart city and help address its traffic issues. Also, I hope that the K-City Network project, in partnership with the City of Verona, will serve as a valuable opportunity to strengthen cooperation between Korea and Italy in the field of smart cities.”
“We were delighted to work in close collaboration with our fantastic partners at Comune di Verona and FAMAS SYSTEMS to activate this ITS Traffic Control System,” said Dr. Jae-Eun Lee, CEO of bitsensing. “I would also like to thank the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport for organising such a fantastic project. Easing congestion and enhancing road safety at such a world-renowned site like Porta Nuova aligns perfectly with bitsensing’s mission to ‘Bring Radar Everywhere’ and we look forward to successfully continuing this project with our partners.”
bitsensing’s TIMOS solution is also deployed on the Nonsan-Cheonan Expressway in South Korea, an 81 km dual two-lane toll road. This latest milestone follows bitsensing’s successful $25 million Series B funding round in June 2024.
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