Derq, a major player in the world of ITS solutions and real-world AI to make intersections safer, has announced that it has signed a commercial agreement with AT&T. This agreement builds on its previous venture partnership between the two organizations into a commercial agreement for market entry. In addition to Derq’s earlier venture funding from AT&T in late 2024, Derq will now be working alongside the telecommunications company as a full-fledged partner.
The two parties will be integrating the AI-based solutions from Derq into AT&T’s Intelligent Transportation Platform (ITP).
Embedding Edge-AI Safety Telemetry into Urban Grid Networks
Traditional traffic management architectures rely heavily on historical data logging and retroactive incident reporting. This workflow creates diagnostic blind spots, slowing down emergency dispatches and stalling traffic optimization. By pairing Derq’s real-time AI modeling with AT&T’s low-latency network footprint, municipal operators can move toward proactive risk mitigation and automated traffic intervention.
Derq’s hardware-agnostic platform ingests video streams from existing roadside cameras to analyze cross-traffic interactions on the fly. This system feeds an uninterrupted stream of high-fidelity telemetry directly into the AT&T ITP pipeline, tracking critical roadway events as they develop:
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Active Anomalies: Instant alerting for vehicle collisions, wrong-way driving maneuvers, and sudden grid congestion spikes.
Proactive Hazard Tracking: Real-time localization of sudden roadway obstructions, including wildlife, stray debris, fires, and localized low-visibility weather fronts.
Predictive Micro-Hotspots: Tracking near-miss encounters, abrupt braking trends, and unsafe pedestrian interactions to identify hazardous zones before fatalities occur.
“Transportation agencies need intelligent ways to connect infrastructure at the edge while supporting cloud-based, scalable data lakes, AI/ML pipelines for predictive decision-making, and insights across increasingly complex mobility environments,” said Usman Zafar, AVP Emerging Solutions at AT&T. “Our ITP is designed to support that transformation, and Derq’s safety intelligence adds an important layer of roadway insight that enables AT&T’s Intelligent traffic management and advanced connected transportation use cases at scale.”
Scaling V2X and Public Sector Safety Frameworks
The integration provides a seamless deployment path to deliver Derq’s safety analytics across urban arterial roads and highway networks. By tapping into AT&T’s extensive public sector reach and high-bandwidth connectivity, the combined solution bridges the gap between mechanical roadside hardware and modern digital networks. This provides a clear roadmap for next-generation Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) and Vehicle-to-Network (V2N) applications, allowing smart infrastructure to broadcast split-second collision warnings directly into the heads-up displays of connected and autonomous vehicles.
“This collaboration marks an important step in scaling the impact of our industry-leading analytics and V2X applications,” said Dr. Georges Aoude, Co-Founder and CEO of Derq. “Together with AT&T, we’re bringing safety intelligence into the infrastructure that cities rely on to manage traffic, reduce risk, and protect all road users at scale.”
