Nvidia Wants To Piece Of Occupation Your City: Smart Metropolis Command Centers (Nvda)

First off, let's brand something crystal clear. From The Register, September 7, 2017:

Smart cities? Tell it similar it is, they're surveillance cities
Lots of lovely data, less of lovely privacy

Opinion H5N1 smart urban core is, inherently, a surveillance city, as well as citizens' privacy could potentially hold upward the terms of the efficiency gains.

Could it hold upward worth the trade-off?

H5N1 majority of sensors as well as systems monitor a city's infrastructure, operations as well as activities as well as aim to tending it run to a greater extent than efficiently. For example, the urban core could work less electricity; its traffic run to a greater extent than smoothly amongst fewer delays; its citizens work the urban core amongst to a greater extent than safety; hazards tin hold upward dealt amongst faster; citizen infractions of rules tin hold upward prevented, as well as the city's infrastructure; ability distribution as well as roads amongst traffic lights for example, dynamically adjusted to response to differing circumstances.
These things are proficient for arrangement administrators inward their function as well as proficient inward the generality, for citizens, who should encounter their urban core working improve for them.

Meanwhile, inward existent life...
The Huawei Connect 2017 conference inward Shanghai featured cloudy information technology everywhere – around of those clouds were anchored over so-called smart cities.

Global Smart Cities IoT Technology Revenues to overstep US$60 Billion yesteryear 2026  You tin starting fourth dimension to encounter the attraction.

And things are moving pretty fast. Motley Fool had this on Apr 1:

Smart City Report: Sidewalk Labs as well as Data In Toronto (GOOG)
April iv
"Nvidia's Slightly Terrifying Metropolis Platform Paves the Way for Smarter Cities" (NVDA)

Although this article is xi months onetime it is a proficient introduction to i slice of what nosotros were foreshadowing amongst Tuesday's "NVIDIA Wants to Be the Brains Behind the Surveillance State (NVDA)". In fact the photographic telly camera surveillance integration AI is exclusively i role of the Metropolis platform which is itself exclusively i role of what the residuum of NVIDIA's offerings volition consist of....

April 3 
UPDATED—NVIDIA Wants to Be the Brains Behind the Surveillance State (NVDA)

The companionship only rolled out a $399,000 two-petaflop supercomputer that every fiddling totalitarian as well as his blood brother is going to lust subsequently to run their surveillance-city smart-city information slurping dreams.
The coming municipal information centers volition goal upward matching the NSA inward full storage capacity as well as NVIDIA wants to hold upward the i sifting through it all. More on this downward the road, for at i time here's the beast....