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<\/p>\nToday the Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), the City of Tallinn and \u00dclemiste City launched the innovative City of the Future Professorship, to be opened in TalTech this autumn. To mark the occasion, the first ever smart traffic signs in Estonia were demonstrated. They will start gathering detailed information about the city environment and traffic situation in the \u00dclemiste hub, which will then be used for designing the city of the future.<\/p>\n
Chairman of the Mainor AS Management Board\u00a0Kadi P\u00e4rnits<\/b>\u00a0explained that the professorship was created by TalTech to help \u00dclemiste City become a city of the future. \u201eThrough the professorship the \u00dclemiste campus will turn into a test bed of a sort, where data about the operation of a modern city is gathered, processed and synthesised and innovative solutions are tried out in the same setting \u2013 all with the aim of improving the environment. And the best outcomes can be used all across Tallinn and elsewhere as well,\u201d P\u00e4rnits said, adding that the developers of \u00dclemiste have pledged almost 500,000 euros in support of the professorship during the next few years.<\/p>\n
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\u201eI commend \u00dclo P\u00e4rnits for his foresight as author of the idea behind \u00dclemiste City \u2013 even today \u00dclemiste City is a city of the future,\u201d TalTech rector\u00a0Jaak Aaviksoo<\/b>\u00a0said. According to Aaviksoo, a city of the future does not mean a place full of technological gadgets, but rather a great and cool place for living and working. Technology is just there to help achieve this. \u201eBy bringing together specialists from different fields we can create even smarter solutions in architecture, construction, as well as indoor climate. That\u2019s why we are looking for this super professor \u2013 to achieve all this,\u201d Aaviksoo explained, hoping that innovation emerging from the endeavour can be useful for others as well.<\/p>\n
Tallinn Deputy Mayor\u00a0Aivar Riisalu<\/b>\u00a0said that knowledge was most important and that in this era of mixed messages the city needed specific knowledge in order to make rational and fact-based decisions. \u201eIt is essential for Tallinn to contribute to the new City of the Future Professorship along with \u00dclemiste City and TalTech; in so doing our decisions will be based on real knowledge, not on someone\u2019 moods or superstition,\u201d Riisalu added.<\/p>\n
The smart traffic signs for \u00dclemiste City are the first of their kind in Estonia, designed and developed by Bercman Technologies, an Estonian company. The signs have cameras and sensors to measure the movement of pedestrians and vehicles and predict the trajectory of their movement. The sign will blink a warning, if the software has established a potential threat.<\/p>\n
The cameras and sensors attached to the traffic signs shall gather data about the number of cars, pedestrians and cyclists, as well as traffic volume, the weather, exhaust gases and noise. The data will be analysed and used for developing new solutions by the scientists of the City of the Future Professorship.<\/p>\n
The new TalTech professorship brings together research fellows, graduate and postgraduate students and an R&D working group, who will focus on data processing and research for creating future living and working environments.<\/p>\n
The partners of the project include the developers of \u00dclemiste City, TalTech, the City of Tallinn, the technology giant Ericsson and a number of other private companies, mostly based in \u00dclemiste City.<\/p>\n
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