Yosemites new lavish AI system aims to make your visit less chaotic

Yosemite National Park visitors will soon get a taste of AI as the park is working on a real-time parking information system.The park in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains is one of the twenty-one national parks that collectively received a $10 million grant in innovation funding by the National Park Foundation this Wednesday.Yosemite National Park will use part of this grant to “design unified, park-wide system that integrates real-time data on traffic, parking, and road conditions into automated, multichannel visitor information.”The sophisticated high-tech system is expected to have smart cameras and sensors along the roads and parking lots that would count cars and track traffic as it happens.Then, AI will be a smart brain that analyzes all this information at once—predicting where traffic jams will happen and how long wait times will be.

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Of which, 18 projects will have immediate funding for projects on “real-time information and traffic management, connectivity and data-informed decision-making.”More than half a dozen of projects in the inaugural cohort will be implemented across California with a focus heavily on upgrading digital infrastructure, real-time traffic management and environmental sustainability.Sequoia Parks Conservancy has also been named as the grant recipient and its project will solve connectivity gaps and congestion at entrance stations at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks by “deploying connectivity infrastructure and traffic counters.”Muir Woods National Monument in California’s Marin County is getting fiber internet and upgrades to the entrance gateway to enable “digital fee collection, reservations, new visitor ...