The Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (MTT), together with Entel, won first place in the Digital Transformation category, an award granted by the Latam Smart City Awards, an instance that seeks to recognize those innovative and disruptive transformation projects that favorably impact the areas of Digital Transformation, Urban Development, Mobility, Equity and Collaborative Society in Latin America.
In particular, the category that MTT and Entel were awarded recognizes the achievements of public or private organizations that have successfully designed and executed projects that provide solutions in innovation and technology as the axis of change in cities, accelerating the transformation through new digital infrastructures that function as support and impulse in all areas of the Smart City model in the region.
The recognition was awarded for the pilot project that enabled cameras for traffic control with 5G technology, earlier this year, developed jointly with the Coordination of Intelligent Transportation Systems (SIT-UOCT) of the MTT and the company Entel Ocean.
The Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Gloria Hutt, was very satisfied with the work carried out jointly by both organizations noting tha “being the winners of the Digital Transformation Category with our camera connectivity pilot project, with 5G technology and Artificial Intelligence, is an encouragement that we are on the right track. This and other projects reflect the continuous improvements to the management and operation of mobility, promoting new models, to contribute to the quality of life of people and favoring the sustainable social and economic development of the country”.
The award-winning project showed a solution that united three technologies: the use of an experimental 5G network, Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing. Among its objectives, the initiative sought to analyze in real time the formation of vehicle queues at intersections, traffic incidents, blockage of roads and crossings, congestion, number of bicycles and pedestrians in the first 5G Experimental Zone in Latin America, set up by the technology and telecommunications company Entel.
In this way, thanks to the potential of the 5G network, the SIT-UOCT Coordination will be able to improve its efficiency in planning, control and operational decision making for traffic and mobility management, detect incidents, coordinate traffic lights and count vehicle flow, among other functions.
“We are very pleased with this recognition, as the demonstration we conducted with the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications was a small sample of the impact that 5G technology can have on the development of smart cities and how people interact with their environment. In addition, the contribution of technological capital, promoted from our digital unit, Entel Ocean, for innovations such as these, is valued”, said the manager of Regulation and Corporate Affairs of Entel, Manuel Araya.
In turn, both Entel and the MTT consider that this is only the beginning of a great path that will lead to the development and improvement of people’s quality of life through 5G technology. They hope that this award will provide the necessary impetus for other companies and government institutions to bet on technology and innovation as a mechanism for improving cities.
7 Oct, 2021
The Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (MTT), together with Entel, won first place in the Digital Transformation category, an award granted by the Latam Smart City Awards, an instance that seeks to recognize those innovative and disruptive transformation projects that favorably impact the areas of Digital Transformation, Urban Development, Mobility, Equity and Collaborative Society in Latin America.
In particular, the category that MTT and Entel were awarded recognizes the achievements of public or private organizations that have successfully designed and executed projects that provide solutions in innovation and technology as the axis of change in cities, accelerating the transformation through new digital infrastructures that function as support and impulse in all areas of the Smart City model in the region.
The recognition was awarded for the pilot project that enabled cameras for traffic control with 5G technology, earlier this year, developed jointly with the Coordination of Intelligent Transportation Systems (SIT-UOCT) of the MTT and the company Entel Ocean.
The Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Gloria Hutt, was very satisfied with the work carried out jointly by both organizations noting tha “being the winners of the Digital Transformation Category with our camera connectivity pilot project, with 5G technology and Artificial Intelligence, is an encouragement that we are on the right track. This and other projects reflect the continuous improvements to the management and operation of mobility, promoting new models, to contribute to the quality of life of people and favoring the sustainable social and economic development of the country”.
The award-winning project showed a solution that united three technologies: the use of an experimental 5G network, Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing. Among its objectives, the initiative sought to analyze in real time the formation of vehicle queues at intersections, traffic incidents, blockage of roads and crossings, congestion, number of bicycles and pedestrians in the first 5G Experimental Zone in Latin America, set up by the technology and telecommunications company Entel.
In this way, thanks to the potential of the 5G network, the SIT-UOCT Coordination will be able to improve its efficiency in planning, control and operational decision making for traffic and mobility management, detect incidents, coordinate traffic lights and count vehicle flow, among other functions.
“We are very pleased with this recognition, as the demonstration we conducted with the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications was a small sample of the impact that 5G technology can have on the development of smart cities and how people interact with their environment. In addition, the contribution of technological capital, promoted from our digital unit, Entel Ocean, for innovations such as these, is valued”, said the manager of Regulation and Corporate Affairs of Entel, Manuel Araya.
In turn, both Entel and the MTT consider that this is only the beginning of a great path that will lead to the development and improvement of people’s quality of life through 5G technology. They hope that this award will provide the necessary impetus for other companies and government institutions to bet on technology and innovation as a mechanism for improving cities.
The Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (MTT), together with Entel, won first place in the Digital Transformation category, an award granted by the Latam Smart City Awards, an instance that seeks to recognize those innovative and disruptive transformation projects that favorably impact the areas of Digital Transformation, Urban Development, Mobility, Equity and Collaborative Society in Latin America.
In particular, the category that MTT and Entel were awarded recognizes the achievements of public or private organizations that have successfully designed and executed projects that provide solutions in innovation and technology as the axis of change in cities, accelerating the transformation through new digital infrastructures that function as support and impulse in all areas of the Smart City model in the region.
The recognition was awarded for the pilot project that enabled cameras for traffic control with 5G technology, earlier this year, developed jointly with the Coordination of Intelligent Transportation Systems (SIT-UOCT) of the MTT and the company Entel Ocean.
The Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Gloria Hutt, was very satisfied with the work carried out jointly by both organizations noting tha “being the winners of the Digital Transformation Category with our camera connectivity pilot project, with 5G technology and Artificial Intelligence, is an encouragement that we are on the right track. This and other projects reflect the continuous improvements to the management and operation of mobility, promoting new models, to contribute to the quality of life of people and favoring the sustainable social and economic development of the country”.
The award-winning project showed a solution that united three technologies: the use of an experimental 5G network, Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing. Among its objectives, the initiative sought to analyze in real time the formation of vehicle queues at intersections, traffic incidents, blockage of roads and crossings, congestion, number of bicycles and pedestrians in the first 5G Experimental Zone in Latin America, set up by the technology and telecommunications company Entel.
In this way, thanks to the potential of the 5G network, the SIT-UOCT Coordination will be able to improve its efficiency in planning, control and operational decision making for traffic and mobility management, detect incidents, coordinate traffic lights and count vehicle flow, among other functions.
“We are very pleased with this recognition, as the demonstration we conducted with the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications was a small sample of the impact that 5G technology can have on the development of smart cities and how people interact with their environment. In addition, the contribution of technological capital, promoted from our digital unit, Entel Ocean, for innovations such as these, is valued”, said the manager of Regulation and Corporate Affairs of Entel, Manuel Araya.
In turn, both Entel and the MTT consider that this is only the beginning of a great path that will lead to the development and improvement of people’s quality of life through 5G technology. They hope that this award will provide the necessary impetus for other companies and government institutions to bet on technology and innovation as a mechanism for improving cities.