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Web Release
12-06-2025
- Business
- Web Release
Milestone revolutionizes urban infrastructure and traffic systems in Europe with NVIDIA and Project Hafnia, starting with Genoa
After launching in the USA, Milestone's Project Hafnia is now engaged in Europe with the city of Genoa, Italy. The aim is to develop AI-driven solutions to enhance traffic management systems and create smarter cities with high-quality, regulation compliant video data trained with NVIDIA NeMo Curator on NVIDIA DGX Cloud . Milestone is one of the early adopters of the newly announced NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for Smart City AI , a reference framework for optimizing city operations with digital twins and AI agents. Milestone is also expanding its data platform with NVIDIA Cosmos to generate synthetic video data from real world inputs. Leveraging both real and synthetic data, Milestone will build and train vision language models (VLMs) responsibly. European cloud provider Nebius will provide the required GPU compute to train the models. AI opens up new horizons for smarter, more efficient cities with Project Hafnia's data platform – from intelligent traffic and transportation management to better safety and security for people and property. VLMs learn to map the relationships between text data and visual data such as images or videos, allowing these AI-models to generate summaries and insights from visual inputs. Milestone Systems is working with NVIDIA to empower European cities like Genoa to build and fine-tune computer vision and AI applications on a foundation of fully compliant and ethically sourced data. The project is rooted in regulatory integrity, data diversity, and AI relevance, aligning with the EU's legal frameworks, including GDPR and the AI Act. This ensures both transparency and fairness in the development of AI technologies. 'I'm proud that with Project Hafnia we are introducing the world's first platform to meet the EU's regulatory standards, powered by NVIDIA technology. With Nebius as our European cloud provider, we can now enable compliant, high-quality video data for training vision AI models — fully anchored in Europe. This marks an important step forward in supporting the EU's commitment to transparency, fairness, and regulatory oversight in AI and technology — the foundation for responsible AI innovation,' says Thomas Jensen, CEO of Milestone. Milestone's Project Hafnia provides the missing link for developing video-centric AI innovation with a fully compliant and ethically sourced data library for fine tuning classical video analytics models and VLMs. The VLM's accuracy and performance optimizations are tuned for running on NVIDIA GPUs and in NVIDIA AI Blueprint for video search and summarization (VSS) . First service offering trained on transportation data from Genoa Project Hafnia now offers a fully European Visual Language Model for transportation management. The VLM is powered by NVIDIA and trained on a large volume of responsibly sourced and compliant transportation data from Genoa, Italy. 'AI is achieving extraordinary results, unthinkable until recently, and the research in the area is in constant development. We enthusiastically joined forces with Project Hafnia to allow developers to access fundamental video data for training new Vision AI models. This data-driven approach is a key principle in the Three-Year Plan for Information Technology, aiming to promote digital transformation in Italy and particularly within the Italian Public Administration,' says Andrea Sinisi, Information Systems Officer, City of Genoa. While the focus of these collaborations is initially on video data, the framework is designed to scale across multiple domains and modalities, enabling future expansion and adaptation improving the value of the data. Both the compliant dataset and the fine-tuned VLM will be made available to the cities using Project Hafnia through a controlled access license model, facilitating Europe's AI ambitions without compromising ethical standards. Nebius to serve as European cloud solution NVIDIA cloud provider, Nebius, will serve as the EU-based cloud solution for Project Hafnia's collaboration with Genoa. Choosing Nebius as a sovereign cloud provider ensures full compliance with European data protection regulations, supports digital sovereignty objectives and guarantees that sensitive public-sector data remains securely within EU jurisdiction. 'Project Hafnia is exactly the kind of real-world, AI-at-scale challenge Nebius was built for,' says Roman Chernin, Chief Business Officer of Nebius.'Supporting AI development today requires infrastructure engineered for high-throughput, high-resilience workloads, with precise control over where data lives and how it's handled. From our EU-based data centers to our deep integration with NVIDIA's AI stack, we've built a platform that meets the highest standards for performance, privacy and transparency.'
Techday NZ
12-06-2025
- Automotive
- Techday NZ
Milestone launches Project Hafnia for AI-driven city management
Milestone has commenced its Project Hafnia to develop AI-driven solutions for urban infrastructure and traffic management, with the first city being Genoa in Italy. The initiative is aimed at improving city operations by harnessing computer vision technologies, using high-quality video data that adheres to European regulatory frameworks, including GDPR and the AI Act. Video data used for the project is trained with NVIDIA's NeMo Curator on NVIDIA DGX Cloud. Collaboration and compliance Milestone is among the first companies to utilise the new NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for Smart City AI—a framework designed for optimising city operations through digital twins and AI agents. The company is also enhancing its data platform by generating synthetic video data via NVIDIA Cosmos, which processes real-world inputs. This combination of real and synthetic video data is used to build and train Vision Language Models (VLMs) in a manner that the company states is responsible and regulation-compliant. European cloud provider Nebius will supply the GPU compute for training these models, which is an element in keeping data processing anchored within European borders and compliant with regional data protection regulations. The application of AI within Project Hafnia spans smart traffic and transportation management, as well as improvements in safety and security for cities. VLMs establish connections between textual data and visual information from images or videos, enabling AI models to generate insights and summaries from visual sources. These efforts, the company asserts, are based upon regulatory integrity, data diversity, and relevance to European legal frameworks. "I'm proud that with Project Hafnia we are introducing the world's first platform to meet the EU's regulatory standards, powered by NVIDIA technology. With Nebius as our European cloud provider, we can now enable compliant, high-quality video data for training vision AI models — fully anchored in Europe. This marks an important step forward in supporting the EU's commitment to transparency, fairness, and regulatory oversight in AI and technology — the foundation for responsible AI innovation," says Thomas Jensen, CEO of Milestone. Genoa as a first Project Hafnia's first European service offering consists of a Visual Language Model specifically for transportation management, drawing on transportation data sourced from Genoa. The model is powered by NVIDIA technology and has been trained on data that is both responsibly sourced and compliant with applicable regulations. "AI is achieving extraordinary results, unthinkable until recently, and the research in the area is in constant development. We enthusiastically joined forces with Project Hafnia to allow developers to access fundamental video data for training new Vision AI models. This data-driven approach is a key principle in the Three-Year Plan for Information Technology, aiming to promote digital transformation in Italy and particularly within the Italian Public Administration," says Andrea Sinisi, Information Systems Officer, City of Genoa. The structure of Project Hafnia's collaborations allows for scalability, as the framework is designed to operate across multiple domains and data types. The compliant datasets and the fine-tuned VLMs will be supplied to participating cities via a controlled access licence model, supporting the region's AI ambitions within ethical standards. Role of Nebius Nebius has been selected as Project Hafnia's European cloud provider. The company operates EU-based data centres, facilitating digital sovereignty objectives and ensuring that sensitive public sector data remains within the jurisdiction of European data protection laws. "Project Hafnia is exactly the kind of real-world, AI-at-scale challenge Nebius was built for," says Roman Chernin, Chief Business Officer of Nebius."Supporting AI development today requires infrastructure engineered for high-throughput, high-resilience workloads, with precise control over where data lives and how it's handled. From our EU-based data centers to our deep integration with NVIDIA's AI stack, we've built a platform that meets the highest standards for performance, privacy and transparency." Project Hafnia data platform Project Hafnia acts as what Milestone refers to as a 'trusted librarian' of AI-ready video data, with the platform curating, tagging, and delivering video data that is described as ethically sourced and regulation-ready for AI model training. The emphasis is placed on maintaining precision, compliance, and citizen privacy throughout the process. According to Milestone, its network of customers, distributors, and technology partners enables the company to organise a comprehensive video data ecosystem that advances the development of AI in video analytics. Project Hafnia is positioned as a resource that companies can use to build AI models while meeting compliance and quality standards. The project will make both the compliant dataset and the fine-tuned Visual Language Model available to participating cities on a controlled basis as part of its effort to support AI development across Europe.
Business Wire
11-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Milestone Revolutionizes Urban Infrastructure and Traffic Systems in Europe With NVIDIA and Project Hafnia, Starting With Genoa
COPENHAGEN, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- After launching in the USA, Milestone's Project Hafnia is now engaged in Europe with the city of Genoa, Italy. The aim is to develop AI-driven solutions to enhance traffic management systems and create smarter cities with high-quality, regulation compliant video data trained with NVIDIA NeMo Curator on NVIDIA DGX Cloud. Milestone is one of the early adopters of the newly announced NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for Smart City AI, a reference framework for optimizing city operations with digital twins and AI agents. Milestone is also expanding its data platform with NVIDIA Cosmos to generate synthetic video data from real world inputs. Leveraging both real and synthetic data, Milestone will build and train vision language models (VLMs) responsibly. European cloud provider Nebius will provide the required GPU compute to train the models. AI opens up new horizons for smarter, more efficient cities with Project Hafnia's data platform - from intelligent traffic and transportation management to better safety and security for people and property. VLMs learn to map the relationships between text data and visual data such as images or videos, allowing these AI-models to generate summaries and insights from visual inputs. Milestone Systems is working with NVIDIA to empower European cities like Genoa to build and fine-tune computer vision and AI applications on a foundation of fully compliant and ethically sourced data. The project is rooted in regulatory integrity, data diversity, and AI relevance, aligning with the EU's legal frameworks, including GDPR and the AI Act. This ensures both transparency and fairness in the development of AI technologies. 'I'm proud that with Project Hafnia we are introducing the world's first platform to meet the EU's regulatory standards, powered by NVIDIA technology. With Nebius as our European cloud provider, we can now enable compliant, high-quality video data for training vision AI models — fully anchored in Europe. This marks an important step forward in supporting the EU's commitment to transparency, fairness, and regulatory oversight in AI and technology — the foundation for responsible AI innovation,' says Thomas Jensen, CEO of Milestone. Milestone's Project Hafnia provides the missing link for developing video-centric AI innovation with a fully compliant and ethically sourced data library for fine tuning classical video analytics models and VLMs. The VLM's accuracy and performance optimizations are tuned for running on NVIDIA GPUs and in NVIDIA AI Blueprint for video search and summarization (VSS). First service offering trained on transportation data from Genoa Project Hafnia now offers a fully European Visual Language Model for transportation management. The VLM is powered by NVIDIA and trained on a large volume of responsibly sourced and compliant transportation data from Genoa, Italy. "AI is achieving extraordinary results, unthinkable until recently, and the research in the area is in constant development. We enthusiastically joined forces with Project Hafnia to allow developers to access fundamental video data for training new Vision AI models. This data-driven approach is a key principle in the Three-Year Plan for Information Technology, aiming to promote digital transformation in Italy and particularly within the Italian Public Administration,' says Andrea Sinisi, Information Systems Officer, City of Genoa. While the focus of these collaborations is initially on video data, the framework is designed to scale across multiple domains and modalities, enabling future expansion and adaptation improving the value of the data. Both the compliant dataset and the fine-tuned VLM will be made available to the cities using Project Hafnia through a controlled access license model, facilitating Europe's AI ambitions without compromising ethical standards. Nebius to serve as European cloud solution NVIDIA cloud provider, Nebius, will serve as the EU-based cloud solution for Project Hafnia's collaboration with Genoa. Choosing Nebius as a sovereign cloud provider ensures full compliance with European data protection regulations, supports digital sovereignty objectives and guarantees that sensitive public-sector data remains securely within EU jurisdiction. 'Project Hafnia is exactly the kind of real-world, AI-at-scale challenge Nebius was built for,' says Roman Chernin, Chief Business Officer of Nebius. 'Supporting AI development today requires infrastructure engineered for high-throughput, high-resilience workloads, with precise control over where data lives and how it's handled. From our EU-based data centers to our deep integration with NVIDIA's AI stack, we've built a platform that meets the highest standards for performance, privacy and transparency.' ABOUT PROJECT HAFNIA When training an AI model, high-quality data is essential. Just like a person learns by absorbing knowledge, AI models require vast amounts of structured data to develop reliable insights. But where does this data come from? Enter Project Hafnia. Project Hafnia acts as the trusted librarian of AI video data, carefully curating, tagging, and delivering ethically sourced, regulation-ready video data for AI model training. By leveraging Project Hafnia, AI learns from high-quality, verified video data, ensuring not only precision and compliance but also the protection of citizen privacy. The vast network of end-customers, distributors and tech-partners enables Milestone to organize the world's Video Data Eco-system with Project Hafnia and drive AI development even further. With Project Hafnia, companies can confidently build and deploy AI models without compromising on compliance or quality. About Milestone Systems Milestone Systems is a world leader in data-driven video technology used in industries as diverse as manufacturing, airports, law enforcement, retail, and traffic management. We provide a clear picture of how to create a safer, better and more prosperous world. Our XProtect video management software, BriefCam AI-powered analytics, and Arcules cloud VSaaS help our customers learn from the past, understand the present, and predict the future. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Milestone employs more than 1,500 people worldwide and has been an independent company in the Canon Group since2014. For more information visit: For news and other press releases, visit our Newsroom.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Milestone Revolutionizes Urban Infrastructure and Traffic Systems in Europe With NVIDIA and Project Hafnia, Starting With Genoa
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 11, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--After launching in the USA, Milestone's Project Hafnia is now engaged in Europe with the city of Genoa, Italy. The aim is to develop AI-driven solutions to enhance traffic management systems and create smarter cities with high-quality, regulation compliant video data trained with NVIDIA NeMo Curator on NVIDIA DGX Cloud. Milestone is one of the early adopters of the newly announced NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for Smart City AI, a reference framework for optimizing city operations with digital twins and AI agents. Milestone is also expanding its data platform with NVIDIA Cosmos to generate synthetic video data from real world inputs. Leveraging both real and synthetic data, Milestone will build and train vision language models (VLMs) responsibly. European cloud provider Nebius will provide the required GPU compute to train the models. AI opens up new horizons for smarter, more efficient cities with Project Hafnia's data platform - from intelligent traffic and transportation management to better safety and security for people and property. VLMs learn to map the relationships between text data and visual data such as images or videos, allowing these AI-models to generate summaries and insights from visual inputs. Milestone Systems is working with NVIDIA to empower European cities like Genoa to build and fine-tune computer vision and AI applications on a foundation of fully compliant and ethically sourced data. The project is rooted in regulatory integrity, data diversity, and AI relevance, aligning with the EU's legal frameworks, including GDPR and the AI Act. This ensures both transparency and fairness in the development of AI technologies. "I'm proud that with Project Hafnia we are introducing the world's first platform to meet the EU's regulatory standards, powered by NVIDIA technology. With Nebius as our European cloud provider, we can now enable compliant, high-quality video data for training vision AI models — fully anchored in Europe. This marks an important step forward in supporting the EU's commitment to transparency, fairness, and regulatory oversight in AI and technology — the foundation for responsible AI innovation," says Thomas Jensen, CEO of Milestone. Milestone's Project Hafnia provides the missing link for developing video-centric AI innovation with a fully compliant and ethically sourced data library for fine tuning classical video analytics models and VLMs. The VLM's accuracy and performance optimizations are tuned for running on NVIDIA GPUs and in NVIDIA AI Blueprint for video search and summarization (VSS). First service offering trained on transportation data from Genoa Project Hafnia now offers a fully European Visual Language Model for transportation management. The VLM is powered by NVIDIA and trained on a large volume of responsibly sourced and compliant transportation data from Genoa, Italy. "AI is achieving extraordinary results, unthinkable until recently, and the research in the area is in constant development. We enthusiastically joined forces with Project Hafnia to allow developers to access fundamental video data for training new Vision AI models. This data-driven approach is a key principle in the Three-Year Plan for Information Technology, aiming to promote digital transformation in Italy and particularly within the Italian Public Administration," says Andrea Sinisi, Information Systems Officer, City of Genoa. While the focus of these collaborations is initially on video data, the framework is designed to scale across multiple domains and modalities, enabling future expansion and adaptation improving the value of the data. Both the compliant dataset and the fine-tuned VLM will be made available to the cities using Project Hafnia through a controlled access license model, facilitating Europe's AI ambitions without compromising ethical standards. Nebius to serve as European cloud solution NVIDIA cloud provider, Nebius, will serve as the EU-based cloud solution for Project Hafnia's collaboration with Genoa. Choosing Nebius as a sovereign cloud provider ensures full compliance with European data protection regulations, supports digital sovereignty objectives and guarantees that sensitive public-sector data remains securely within EU jurisdiction. "Project Hafnia is exactly the kind of real-world, AI-at-scale challenge Nebius was built for," says Roman Chernin, Chief Business Officer of Nebius."Supporting AI development today requires infrastructure engineered for high-throughput, high-resilience workloads, with precise control over where data lives and how it's handled. From our EU-based data centers to our deep integration with NVIDIA's AI stack, we've built a platform that meets the highest standards for performance, privacy and transparency." ABOUT PROJECT HAFNIA When training an AI model, high-quality data is essential. Just like a person learns by absorbing knowledge, AI models require vast amounts of structured data to develop reliable insights. But where does this data come from? Enter Project Hafnia. Project Hafnia acts as the trusted librarian of AI video data, carefully curating, tagging, and delivering ethically sourced, regulation-ready video data for AI model training. By leveraging Project Hafnia, AI learns from high-quality, verified video data, ensuring not only precision and compliance but also the protection of citizen privacy. The vast network of end-customers, distributors and tech-partners enables Milestone to organize the world's Video Data Eco-system with Project Hafnia and drive AI development even further. With Project Hafnia, companies can confidently build and deploy AI models without compromising on compliance or quality. About Milestone Systems Milestone Systems is a world leader in data-driven video technology used in industries as diverse as manufacturing, airports, law enforcement, retail, and traffic management. We provide a clear picture of how to create a safer, better and more prosperous world. Our XProtect video management software, BriefCam AI-powered analytics, and Arcules cloud VSaaS help our customers learn from the past, understand the present, and predict the future. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Milestone employs more than 1,500 people worldwide and has been an independent company in the Canon Group since2014. For more information visit: For news and other press releases, visit our Newsroom. 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Zawya
27-05-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Milestone's video technology powers next-gen AI for smart cities
Dubai, UAE: Dubai is expanding its innovative work in developing artificial intelligence-powered traffic technology through its AI Strategy 2030, looking to transform urban mobility through advanced AI traffic control systems, directed by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA). A new opportunity is now emerging for smart cities like Dubai. Milestone Systems has launched Project Hafnia - a collaborative project aimed at building a compliant data library and creating high-performing AI models, so-called visual language models. The future of smart city technology and transformation of urban mobility and safety isn't being shaped in Silicon Valley — it's taking root in the small US city of Dubuque, Iowa. The city has become a live testbed for AI-driven traffic management thanks to the unique public-private collaboration led by Milestone Systems under Project Hafnia. Challenge: High-Potential AI, Low-Quality Data Despite extensive camera deployments, cities often struggle to derive real-time intelligence from video. AI models trained on synthetic or generic datasets frequently underperform in complex, real-world environments. High false-positive rates make them impractical for daily operations, especially in time-critical applications like traffic management, preventing municipalities from gaining the real-time insights needed to improve mobility, safety, and emergency response. Solution: Public-Private Innovation in Action Project Hafnia, led by Milestone Systems, develops a high-performance, real-world AI model. Milestone led the 12-month project from initial concept to full-scale deployment, investing in cloud-based AI training and professional video annotation. Unlike conventional vendor-customer setups, this collaboration was structured with shared value in mind: each party contributed expertise, resources, and infrastructure, aligning toward a common goal. At the heart of this success story is Milestone's investment in creating a secure, high-quality, and legally compliant data library that supports transparency and data traceability requirements in evolving AI regulations. Milestone transformed the city's raw traffic footage into valuable AI training material. This investment paid off dramatically, with model accuracy jumping from 80% to over 95%. Below that threshold, false positives are too frequent, undermining usability. Above it, cities unlock new levels of accuracy and insight. Results: Scalable, Transferable, Trusted With more than 100 traffic cameras participating in the trial, Project Hafnia validated AI performance in the field across a range of changing light, weather, and traffic patterns. The resulting platform is scalable and transferable, giving other cities a tested blueprint for AI-enhanced urban operations. AI models originally developed for traffic monitoring (vehicle classification, pedestrian tracking, anomaly detection) can now be repurposed to support public safety, emergency response, and infrastructure planning across departments. Louise Bou Rached, Director – Middle East, Turkey and Africa, Milestone Systems, expressed,"Project Hafnia shows how a collaborative strategy and a shared dedication to data integrity can contribute to transforming urban solutions. Milestone Systems and its partners have attained unmatched model accuracy of over 95% by using real-world traffic footage and careful data annotation, thus facilitating cities like Dubuque and Dubai to deploy artificial intelligence with confidence. This project not only shows scalable and transferable technology but also opens the door for more sustainable, safer, and smarter urban mobility worldwide." A New Framework for Public-Private Innovation Beyond the technical achievements, the project established a new template for collaboration between cities, technology vendors, and platform providers. Rather than a traditional vendor-customer relationship, the collaboration operated on balanced value exchange principles. The collaboration brought together diverse perspectives and created a forward-looking solution that evolved organically. From concept to working prototype to full-scale deployment, every participant helped shape the outcome. Thomas Jensen, CEO of Milestone Systems, emphasized the broader vision: 'At Milestone, we believe that AI innovation starts with trusted data and open collaboration. Project Hafnia proves that with the right platform, even mid-sized cities like Dubuque can lead the way in responsible, data-driven transformation. This is a blueprint for how cities everywhere can harness AI to improve safety, mobility, and quality of life — all while staying in control of their data.' Project Hafnia not only demonstrated that real-world AI can work, it showed that it can scale, ethically and collaboratively. Project Hafnia is more than a traffic management success story. It's a living prototype of how cities — big or small — can unlock the full potential of AI by investing in data, partnerships, and transparency. *Source: AETOSWire Contacts Namita Thakkar - namita@
