In East Kazakhstan, Centers of Competence for AI in metallurgy and smart roads will be established

Work is underway in East Kazakhstan to establish the Industrial AI Competence Center for developing AI systems for the mining and metallurgical industry and implementing comprehensive software-hardware solutions using artificial intelligence for core and auxiliary processes of companies in the mining and metallurgical complex.

The Competence Center is planned to be established at the Serikbayev East Kazakhstan Technical University. Project partners include "Rating," "Alfa Safety," Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems, Rainer Lemm Institute, and Tianjin University. The university received funding from the World Bank to support the project — 150,000,000 tenge. Additionally, an application for funding has been submitted to the German Ministry.

Among other promising projects is the creation of the Smart Driving Technology Center with funding from Chinese partners — $500,000.

The goal of the center is to use AI technologies, satellite navigation, telemetry, and Big Data to organize traffic flows, autonomous driving, and create smart roads. Project partners include Catarc Intelligent and Connected Technology Co., Ltd. and Tianjin Professional Institute.

Source: dknews.kz