COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 23, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) today announced that its
highly advanced technologies for smart cities, including sophisticated vehicle communications solutions, RFID tagging and Smart
Card ICs, play a key role in Columbus, Ohio’s winning proposal for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (D.O.T.) Smart City
Challenge. NXP, through its partnership with the D.O.T., is working with Columbus to help deploy wireless technology allowing cars
to securely exchange data, prevent accidents and improve traffic flow, as well as Smart Card ICs to make secure public
transportation access fast and easy for credit- and cash-economy-based passengers alike.
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The Smart City Challenge is a nationwide competition which awards the winning, medium-sized U.S. city a prize of $50 million
through the D.O.T. The prize recognizes the community’s innovative ideas for developing the connected city of the future and for
addressing the challenges that growing populations present to transportation infrastructure. As the winning city, Columbus will
additionally receive a broad array of advanced smart city technologies from NXP and other program partners.
“Technology like NXP’s will help bring Columbus’ vision to life, providing critical technology necessary for the development of
America’s first truly smart city,” said U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. “Smart transportation,
identification and authentication solutions are essential components of creating ladders of opportunities – to build better transit
and transportation systems for the future. These innovative technologies will allow cars to not only talk to each other to avoid
accidents, but will also enable smarter infrastructure for the city itself, ensuring secure, connected experiences and smoother
traffic flow for all Columbus’ residents.”
“We are honored to win this competition and couldn’t be more excited to start deploying NXP’s innovative, leading-edge
technologies to help create a safer, more streamlined city for all of our residents,” said Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther. “With
the help of great partners like NXP, we are on our way toward establishing Columbus as a worldwide model of what the future of
cities can actually become.”
NXP, together with partners Delphi and Siemens, are demonstrating vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X)
technology at today’s announcement ceremony at the Douglas Community Center, where reporters, dignitaries and Columbus citizens can
see NXP’s RoadLINK V2X technology in action.
Other smart city solutions based on NXP technology and outlined in Columbus’ winning proposal include:
- Smart Card IC technology that enhances transportation for all citizens by supporting secure and convenient public
transportation ticketing and payment systems, including contactless transit fare solutions.
- Highly secure NXP Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions designed to promote public safety and convenience. Smart
City applications for this NXP technology include vehicle window stickers that enhance driver convenience and reduce municipal
costs by eliminating the need for stop-and-pay stations in public parking spaces.
“Columbus’ Smart Cities Competition proposal outlined a clear and inspirational vision: to create a beautiful, healthy, and
prosperous community for all of its residents. In fact, this vision is exactly what NXP’s Smart Cities solutions are engineered to
accomplish,” said NXP President and CEO Rick Clemmer. “We are proud that NXP’s secure, intelligent traffic management and smart
public transport solutions play such a critical role in Columbus’ plans. NXP sincerely congratulates Columbus for winning the
Challenge, while also looking forward to working with the other six finalist communities as they implement their own smart city
plans in the future.”
For more information about NXP’s technologies and its partners supporting the Smart Cities Challenge, please visit www.nxp.com/smartcities.
About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) enables secure connections and infrastructure for a smarter world, advancing solutions that
make lives easier, better and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is driving
innovation in the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy and smart connected solutions markets. Built on more than
60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has 44,000 employees in more than 35 countries and posted revenue of
$6.1 billion in 2015. Find out more at www.nxp.com.
NXP and the NXP logo are trademarks of NXP. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. All
rights reserved. © 2016 NXP B.V.
For more information, please contact: Americas Jack Taylor Tel: +1 512 560-7143 Email: jack.taylor@nxp.com Greater China/Asia Esther Chang Tel: +886 2 8170 9990 Email: esther.chan@nxp.com Europe Martijn van der Linden Phone: +31 6 1091 4896 Email: martijn.van.der.linden@nxp.com
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