Intel and Inrix collaborate on smart cities platforms

Inrix and Intel Corporation have announced a strategic collaboration focused on developing next generation smart cities analytics platforms and applications. As part of their collaboration, Intel’s global investment organisation, Intel Capital, is investing US$10 million in Inrix. The two companies recently demonstrated a smart cities application at the White House in Washington, DC. Powered by Inrix real-time traffic information, the application is designed to help the city of San Jose more cost-effect
November 5, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
163 Inrix and 4243 Intel Corporation have announced a strategic collaboration focused on developing next generation smart cities analytics platforms and applications. As part of their collaboration, Intel’s global investment organisation, Intel Capital, is investing US$10 million in Inrix.

The two companies recently demonstrated a smart cities application at the White House in Washington, DC.  Powered by Inrix real-time traffic information, the application is designed to help the city of San Jose more cost-effectively monitor air quality levels citywide and better manage massive population growth as well as reduce traffic congestion during major events.  Intel and Inrix see an enormous growth opportunity ahead with cities around the world expected to spend an estimated US$41 trillion in the next 20 years upgrading their infrastructures towards the collaborative smart cities initiative.  

“Real-time data and analytics are as foundational to our future transportation networks as concrete and steel are today,” said Bryan Mistele, president and CEO of Inrix.  “Managing the massive population growth in our cities is one of the most important development challenges of the 21st century.  We look forward to collaborating with Intel to enable a whole new generation of smart cities applications globally.”

“Technology is changing the way individuals and businesses give life to ideas,” said Hank Skorny, vice president and general manager of Intel Services Division. “Big data and the Internet of Things are impacting numerous industries, including transportation, retail and consumable goods.  Inrix sits at the intersection and holds a unique opportunity to deliver value across the entire network.”
Urban Traffic Control Location Based Systems

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Looking for the next generation of smart city innovators
    July 24, 2015
    With the aim of fostering innovation and developing the next generation of technology talent, GE Lighting has become the founding sponsor of a unique new urban regeneration initiative, the Intelligent Community Challenge. Centred on a design competition, the initiative aims to crowd source new perspectives and fresh ideas on key urban challenges such as public safety, crime, social inclusion, traffic and pollution, by uniting local councils, communities and university students to develop intelligent and inn
    Read More
  • Washington, DC, tops list of gridlocked US cities
    August 26, 2015
    The 2015 urban mobility scorecard for the US, published jointly by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Inrix, indicates that urban areas of all sizes are experiencing the challenges seen in the early 2000s and population, jobs and therefore congestion are increasing. The US economy has regained nearly all of the nine million jobs lost during the recession and the total congestion problem is larger than the pre-recession levels. Cities of all sizes are experiencing the challenges last seen before t
    Read More
  • Digital twins help city space race
    October 26, 2022
    As the world becomes more urbanised, there is a need to monitor the likely effects this will have on the way we live, says Jeroen Borst of TNO, the Dutch organisation for applied scientific research
    Read More
  • Data exploits parking potential
    March 11, 2015
    David Crawford parallel parks with innovations in two continents. Surveys of US cities indicate that drivers searching for parking can account for up to 37% of all urban traffic congestion. A 2011 study by IBM of 20 cities around the world found that nearly six out of ten drivers had abandoned their search for a parking space at least once; while motorists generally spent on average 20 minutes looking for a sought-after spot.
    Read More

Highlighted Content