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The quality of the materials going into roads and bridges is the chief indicator of the lifespan and overall strength of what was built. Current sampling methods can cause contractors to purchase extra materials, which increases costs. Any onsite sampling can cause a delay in construction. Being able to adequately test materials without creating these issues is a benefit to all involved.

The proposed innovative idea and advanced video analytics/edge computing technologies will revolutionize the current state of practice by applying innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Computer Vision (CV), Pattern Recognition (PR), Edge Computing (EC) to most efficiently analyze the real-time video data provided by the current available infrastructure such as video cameras. Such precious real-time data will be processed and analyzed in real-time and the results will be provided to authorities for real-time decision making in order to prevent crimes or tragedies before they happen. Thus property costs and even human lives may be saved.

Our innovative technologies achieve state-of-the-art performance, and improves upon traditional techniques such as Radar by nearly an order of magnitude improvement for traffic volume counting. Our advanced video analytics technologies, which tackles numerous challenging factors, such as low quality video, low bit rate video, adverse illumination and weather conditions, improve upon other methods by large margins.

By feeding the flash floods to the traffic information which the GPS receives would allow the driver to get opportunity to reroute and prevent a catastrophe. 

The insurance companies and drivers would save thousands of dollars as cost to repair, car replacement, salvage, insurance payout. This would also save lives, and make New Jersey climate change resilient.

Safety of Pedestrian Traffic and Reduced Labor Costs.

When not only are the traffic and pedestrian volumes exceeding our capacities, but the tools needed to break new ground in mitigation are also outpacing our ability to understand and utilize, it is imperative that a successful government embrace and utilize these new technologies in a way that does not have to rely on private industry in an emerging and volatile market.

The cost of maintaining our infrastructure is continuing to increase.  Since the amount of funding is not increasing as fast as the need,  we are at a crossroads.  Our government is being put in the position to decide between the negative impacts of dramatically increasing taxes, and the danger of a continually deteriorating infrastructure.  I think that this study will give our government the tools to increase the quality of our infrastructure while not needing to dramatically increase taxes.  

This is the perfect time to implement such a change.  It is so much easier to reach the public now that we would be able to bring them on board and have this viewed largely in a positive light.