{"id":50841,"date":"2025-11-24T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50841\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:11:07","slug":"pedestrian-counting-augmented-reality-newest-projects-in-nyc-smart-city-testbed-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50841\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian counting, augmented reality newest projects in NYC ‘smart city’ testbed program"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Chief Technology Officer Matt Fraser on Monday announced two new pilot projects to be led through the NYC Smart City Testbed Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The city plans to focus on enhancing street and infrastructure safety, and will include experiments with a pedestrian counting technology and an augmented reality platform hoped to inform the design of a new recreation center in Queens.<\/p>\n

The urban-tech accelerator, which the Office of Technology and Innovation kicked off in 2023<\/a>, gives city agencies, private companies and academic institutions a chance to pilot technologies that solve urban challenges. Last year\u2019s cohort used artificial intelligence to help the parks department automatically assess conditions at certain facilities, and a lidar tool that helped the Department of City Planning analyze industrial traffic.<\/p>\n

The city said that in the coming weeks, its transportation and technology bureaus will work with a company that offers a pedestrian-counting technology to test the accuracy of sensors used to measure (anonymized) crowd sizes. They also plan to capture the approximate length of time people dwell at six locations in the city, such as plazas, open streets and holiday markets. Collecting this data, according to a city news release, will help the officials to better understand how the public uses these areas, and more precisely gauge the amount of staffing and resources needed to maintain them.<\/p>\n

The second pilot, a partnership between the city\u2019s technology office and Department of Design and Construction, will use an augmented reality and community engagement platform to share the design of the upcoming Roy Wilkins Recreation Center in St. Albans, Queens. The city said visitors will be able to scan QR codes posted near the new recreation center and view a 3D rendering that \u201cwill adapt on screen based on the user\u2019s perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fraser, the city tech chief, said in the news release said program\u2019s two new pilots are representative of Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 commitment to expanding and improving the use of technology. Adams\u2019 term ends at the end of the year, and Zohran Mamdani will take over Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Adams administration has delivered a safer, more affordable city for New Yorkers thanks to its willingness to tackle seemingly intractable challenges in fresh ways,\u201d Fraser said in the release. \u201cThe NYC Smart City Testbed Program embodies our mindset that there are no failures, only learning opportunities. The cutting-edge pilots announced today demonstrate our commitment to developing forward-thinking partnerships and solutions needed to better serve our residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Keely<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWritten by Keely Quinlan
\n\t\t\tKeely Quinlan reports on privacy and digital government for StateScoop. She was an investigative news reporter with Clarksville Now in Tennessee, where she resides, and her coverage included local crimes, courts, public education and public health. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Stereogum and other outlets. She earned her bachelor\u2019s in journalism and master\u2019s in social and cultural analysis from New York University.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Chief Technology Officer Matt Fraser on Monday announced two new pilot projects to be led…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13227,9,24,8365,56,63,65,64,12157,28399,5065,13771,28400],"class_list":["post-50841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-matt-fraser","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-office-of-technology-and-innovation","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-pilot-program","tag-smart-cities","tag-state-local-news","tag-tech-news","tag-urban-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}