Ouster awarded $2M contract to deploy traffic solution in Chattanooga

Ouster (OUST) was awarded a two-million-dollar contract to deploy its Ouster BlueCity traffic management solution in Chattanooga, Tennessee to improve roadway safety and reduce congestion. The City of Chattanooga will expand Ouster’s BlueCity solution to over 120 intersections, covering the downtown area. The project will combine digital lidar sensors and edge AI at each intersection to manage traffic flow, detect and analyze safety incidents and provide detection for vehicle-to-everything communications. Ouster BlueCity is a turnkey solution that delivers more intelligent signal actuation at intersections while generating an analytics data stream that gives traffic operators and city planners high quality insights about their public corridors. Using deep learning AI perception, Ouster BlueCity delivers reliability and advanced object classification and detection for a range of complex use cases including traffic actuation, near-miss detection, outside of crosswalk events, red light running and wrong-way driving. Ouster BlueCity achieved system-level NEMA TS2 certification as a detection system for traffic actuation in 2024, making it the first certified lidar traffic solution with Buy America(n) lidar.