Edge AI for Smart Cities: From Insight to Cognitive Action
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The smart city narrative is shifting from dashboards to edge AI that can sense and act — traffic lights, cameras, and infrastructure making local decisions in real time. City tech vendors and operators need to design for distributed autonomy, not just central control rooms, with clear guardrails on what systems are allowed to do without a human.
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