b'CASE STUDY: ATHENS, GAATHENS FACTS:125,000 RESIDENTSTHEIR STORY 172 SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS125,000residentscallAthens,Georgiahome. Located in the smallest county in the state, the City33 GRIDSMART UNITSof Athens is familiar with operating under strained budgets.With172signalizedintersectionsand extreme fluctuations in traffic from sporting events at the University of Georgia, Athens traffic department needed to find a cost-effective technology to manageTHE CONCLUSIONtraffic for their community. THE GRIDSMART SOLUTION Athensfoundothervideosystemswereexpensive andlimitedthemtoonetrafficapproach.With GRIDSMART, we were able to obtain left-hand turn Tosolvetheirtrafficproblem,Athensdeployedthemovements through video, which sold us, along with GRIDSMART System powered by Intel technologies,the ease of the installation, said Rogers. Ive spent theworldsfirstfield-tested,single-sensorsolutionhours watching the system, and Ive never seen it fail forintersectionactuation,performancemonitoring,or have a missed call.and data collection. While other sensors are limited toapproachdata,GRIDSMARThascountedandThetrafficdepartmentalsodiscoveredothervideo classifiedmorethan216billionvehiclesworldwidesystems were blind for several hours a day when the from approach, through the center of the intersection,sunstruck,leavingthesystemsinamaxrecall to exit.tomovetraffic. The Bell Camera points downward, preventingblindspotsandexposuretoweather Withastandardvideosystem,youcantseetheelements. GRIDSMART knows where the sun is, and center of the intersection. With GRIDSMART, we seeyou wont lose focus and have a traffic disruption, the center and have all views of what is happeningRogers explained. in real-time, said Rodney Rogers, Signal Supervisor with the City of Athens. The data is very user-friendly and comes directly to us. We are not IT guys, and we completely installed it Additionally,GRIDSMARTprovidesreal-timeourselves, said Rogers. The data collection has also performancedatasuchastime-stampedtrafficsaved us fuel and overtime savings because now we volumes,turns,andaveragespeedsforanalysisdont have to pay someone to go out at an intersection andbetterdecisionmaking.Athensfoundtheand count turns. datawasimmediatelyusefulwithoutadditional formatting, allowing their traffic engineer to makeAsbudgetscontinuetoshrink,thecityofAthens timing recommendations and system adjustmentsplans to deploy additional GRIDSMART Systems after based on real-time situations. experiencing the impressive technology and monetary savings.GRIDSMARTprovidescounts,overtime savings, and video, all in one inclusive package, said Rogers.865.482.2112 |gridsmart.com|gridsmartmarketing@cubic.com'