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Source: Novosibirsk State University –
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Today, a delegation from the Novosibirsk city administration, headed by Mayor Maxim Kudryavtsev, visited Novosibirsk State University, where a meeting was held with the participation of NSU Rector Dmitry Pyshny, Academic Supervisor Center for Artificial Intelligence (NSU Center for Information Technologies and Applications) Mikhail Fedoruk and Director of the NSU Center for Information Technologies and Applications Alexander Lyulko. During the event, the potential implementation of the Center's developments in the urban environment was discussed. The next step is expected to be the conclusion of a cooperation agreement between the municipality and the university.
Alexander Lyulko, head of the NSU Center for Information Technologies, and his colleagues discussed the Center's key projects, as well as the potential application of these developments to optimize urban infrastructure management.
One such project is aimed at creating software tools that use AI technologies to analyze urban heating systems and optimize their operation, as well as prevent accidents. Last year, NSU reached an agreement with the largest grid company in the Sovetsky District, FSUE UEV, to deploy such a system at one of its heating sites. The developers are now ready to implement similar pilot projects with municipal heating networks in Novosibirsk.
The meeting also featured a presentation of a digital executive assistant based on the Sigma platform, event detectors created for video surveillance systems developed by Rostelecom, healthcare solutions, UAV control solutions, and more.
University representatives emphasized that they would like to see the mayor's office not only as a partner in implementing existing solutions, but also as a taskmaster for new developments.
"In such a complex task as building a 'smart city,' it's crucial that scientists and developers don't just come up with their own problems to solve, but rather focus on the client's pressing needs. It's great that a list of such problems was presented at this meeting, and it's clear that our employees understand how to achieve the desired result. The university primarily creates platform solutions that can be adapted for various purposes. What's important is that the city faces many challenges, and we're interested in solving them," noted NSU Rector and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Pyshny.
Novosibirsk Mayor Maxim Kudryavtsev supported this approach to cooperation.
"We are extremely interested in implementing big data, blockchain, and artificial intelligence technologies in housing and utilities networks, traffic management, life support, security, and many other areas of municipal work. If we see that a solution proposed by the NSU Artificial Intelligence Center reduces costs, optimizes the operation of city services, or improves their efficiency within existing budgets, we are ready to provide the necessary platforms for implementing such pilot projects. And then, if the results confirm the stated results, we will scale them up citywide," he said.
The meeting participants agreed to draft a corresponding cooperation agreement within a short timeframe. Initial potential projects include monitoring the condition of urban forests and identifying unauthorized dumpsites using drones, automating the preparation of applications for advertising structures, and creating another pilot site for monitoring the heating system using artificial intelligence technologies.
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