NVIDIA's Artificial Intelligence to Power a "Drone Traffic Cop" to Monitor Canadian Highways

NVIDIA's Artificial Intelligence to Power a "Drone Traffic Cop" to Monitor Canadian Highways

NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA) artificial intelligence (AI) products for data centers and autonomous cars get significant press coverage, but its drone AI products and projects don't get the attention they deserve.

NVIDIA's graphics processing unit (GPU)-based approach to AI is being rapidly adopted to smarten up drones for a wide variety of applications. This is good news for investors, since the global civil drone market grew about 36% last year, according to research firm Gartner, and is widely expected to balloon in size in the coming decade.

In October, I wrote about NVIDIA's AI being used by Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com to power its drone delivery initiative, and by Avitas Systems, a General Electric venture, for its drone industrial inspections. Last month, NVIDIA scored yet another win in the drone space for an entirely different application: monitoring highways for compliance with high-occupancy vehicle/high-occupancy toll (HOV/HOT) lane regulations.

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