Here’s something interesting for KL motorists. Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group will set up a traffic control system harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) for Kuala Lumpur, its first “City Brain” service outside China, Reuters reports.
The cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, Alibaba Cloud, said yesterday it plans to make live traffic predictions and recommendations to increase traffic efficiency in KL by crunching data gathered from video footage, traffic bureaus, public transportation systems and mapping apps.
Alibaba Cloud is will be partnering with Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and DBKL to roll out the Malaysia City Brain technology, which would be localised and integrated with 500 inner city cameras by May this year.
This development comes after Alibaba founder Jack Ma and prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak launched an “e-hub” facility last year, part of an initiative aimed at removing trade barriers for smaller firms and emerging nations. Alibaba Cloud, which set up a data centre in Malaysia last year, is considering a second facility to further develop a local ecosystem, its president Simon Hu said.
Hu declined to elaborate on the company’s total investments made and planned for in Malaysia, but said it was “no small amount” and that the investments would continue if there was demand for cloud computing tech.
“The initiative is driven by MDEC and Alibaba Cloud to avoid or significantly reduce congestion and to increase road safety and emergency services efficiency. A proof of concept project has already been conducted locally in August 2017 in collaboration with a number of data providers from the private sector and MDEC providing project management and data analytics together with Alibaba Cloud providing platform and subject matter expertise,” said Federal Territories minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.
“As Malaysia City Brain develops, AI technology will help to benefit the rakyat. These will include better traffic flow, faster response times from emergency services and handling of road traffic incidents and safety,” he added.
According to statistics from Alibaba Cloud, the traffic management system in the Chinese city of Hangzhou had resulted in reports of traffic violations with up to 92% accuracy, emergency vehicles reaching their destinations in half the time and overall increase in traffic speed by 15%. The City Brain system was launched there in September 2016.
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Lucky we have China to help us with everything. From Bailouts to traffic jams.
Thank you China for always helping Malaysia. We need you and we need your brains. Please send more people from Mainland to Malaysia as we need you.
Hail china! thank you alibaba!
If anything we certainly lack brains here.
Hopefully China sends millions of Mainland people into Malaysia. Efficiency will go up substantially!
Hope DBKL will update Jack Ma those bright blue cyclo lanes.
Jack Ma is a good man…
He cud sponsor more cameras…
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Well I do hope this tech will help alleviate the incredibly lousy traffic around Klang Valley. Seriously, when you have Malaysians who don’t know how to drive properly & the abundance of cars on the roads, you get our traffic system.
And yet some pipu still demand for cheaper cars. Lolz!
Expensive car like vellfire and S class good for traffic ??
How about those cement mixer trucks and gravel/sand loader trucks? Aren’t there more expensive than vellfire and S class?
In the good side, China is helping to develop Malaysia. In the other side, they are ‘monitoring’ our country. In future, our country will be more susceptible to their ‘incoming’.
Looking at the language being used, I can say we ourselves alredi put 1 leg thru…
Monitoring = Surveillance. Increase surveillance including facial recognition will turn KL to be like Beijing, one of the cities with largest surveillance cameras in the world.
Orwell’s 1984 comes to mind.
Dun worry. London alredi did that 10 years ago.
What happened to our very own Integrated Transport Information System (ITIS) which costs taxpayers millions of ringgit?
Will be integrated into City Brain. ITIS will feed info to the AI and then disseminate the processed results to road users. Brilliant ekceli.
And it’s still jam!!
Should ban ALL PRIVATE registered vehicle entering KL from 6am to 10pm
Only pedal powered wheels allowed !!
Fully agree. Those non-wilayah address can use public transports.
Papan salam… “Selamat Hari Wilayah Persekutuan 1Februari 2018”
they have invested a lot of money so what do they get in return?
They get the data ie the most valuable thing in the tech industry
State wide surveillance. Plain and simple.
The city.
Real world Sibyl System.
Jack Ma is not aware that nothing in the world can help msian drivers….
Perhaps like Geely, he saw something that we din. Maybe thats they they advanced and we dun.
*thats why they advance and we dun.