Cloud Computing: Microsoft Is Crunching Huge Data To Foresee Traffic Jams Up To An Hour Before
April 4, 2015
Grazed from UberGizmo.com. Author: Editorial Staff.
Traffic jams are a part of our everyday problems, and there is no denying that most of our time is spent suffering through these jams. How about we tell you that soon you will be able to foresee these jams! and No, it is not an April fool gimmick. Reportedly, Microsoft is working on a research that could forecast traffic jams.
The company has collaborated with the Federal University of Minas Gerais,which is among Brazil’s largest universities, to initiate the research project, known as Traffic Prediction Project. If all goes well, then we could foresee a jam up to an hour before it happens…
The project is accumulating all traffic data from the transport department, road CCTV footage, Bing’s traffic maps, and also driver’s social media data, to see if the existing data pattern can help in forecasting the jams 15-60 minutes prior. Microsoft will utilize its Azure cloud-computing platform for the project, which will come handy in providing the processing power to record the huge data…
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