SinTráfico

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Inspiration

In Mexico city an average person spends 2.5 hours sitting in traffic, this means a 55 Billions pesos loss for the city each year, this is a huge economical and environmental cost and a huge wellness impact on everybody. We all share a very valuable resource: Time, It's a resource that when we use we can’t get it back, that’s why we created SinTráfico.

What it does

At SinTráfico, we create smart mobility solutions. By using our own real time data network, the country’s largest, and our experience in Big Data and analytics, we help businesses and governments to be more efficient in their mobility requirements. We sell APIs services to specialized platform that allow make transportation more efficient, operate cities, and make smarter decisions, we are building the largest mobility database in Mexico, we process millions of data in real time every day, we’ve worked with industry leaders and government dependencies in projects and initiatives that help make our dream come true, and that dream is transform Mexico’s cities into smart cities.

How I built it

We monitor every aspect of mobility in cities: speeds and congestion in streets and roads, weather, public transport, parking and meters, carpooling and even bicycles. We create solutions powered by these data.

Challenges I ran into

When we think about Big Data, we never realize that there are many aspects on how we can process such amount of information. We have to categorize it depending on how often we are going to read or update this set of data, also how long is going to take us to do calculations, and how big is the output, this concepts always have to be take into account together and this is the most difficult part about Big Data, because each problem alone can be solvable by it's own somewhat painless, but together is a very different problem.