Analog Devices and Cambridge Consultants Collaborate on Cost-Effective Monitoring System to Reduce Parking Frustrations
10 Mai 2016 - 6:07PM
Business Wire
Analog Devices, Inc. and Cambridge Consultants today announced a
cost-effective, smart monitoring system that helps ease parking
frustrations for drivers. The innovative system saves drivers time
and makes parking easier by monitoring space occupancy for
on-street and indoor garage parking spaces without adding expensive
infrastructure. This enables a number of significant parking
improvements. For example, drivers can be assigned a parking space
as they enter a car garage, enabling them to go straight to their
allotted spot. Or they can request a specific space in advance if
they plan to shop at a particular store. If the data from the
occupancy sensor is combined with number plate recognition, drivers
can also be offered automated payment and help with locating their
parked car.
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Analog Devices and Cambridge Consultants
Collaborate on Cost-Effective Monitoring System to Reduce Parking
Frustrations (Graphic: Business Wire).
The new smart system is enabled by Analog Devices’ award-winning
Blackfin® Low Power Imaging Platform (BLIP), which is a low-cost,
low-power embedded computer vision platform targeting a vast array
of real-time sensing applications. Using a highly sophisticated
algorithm designed by Cambridge Consultants, BLIP can visually
detect which parking spaces are occupied or empty. This is a
significant improvement over costly alternative solutions, which
involve digging up roads and parking lots to install individual
sensors under each parking space.
- Learn more about BLIP:
http://www.analog.com/BLIP
“The BLIP platform allows Analog Devices to make significant
contributions in emerging IoT spaces such as smart building and
cities where this a radical shift from passive to real-time
intelligent sensing nodes,” said Michael Murray, general manager,
Industrial IoT and Sensing, Analog Devices. “We’re excited to
collaborate with Cambridge Consultants on this project. The
company’s world-class expertise in complex algorithm development
allowed us to algorithmically enable BLIP for an application space
that would create a unique solution to relieve a major source of
frustration for drivers everywhere.”
Parking surveys regularly report that the search for a parking
space can often take up to 20 minutes with the average motorist
wasting thousands of hours during their lifetime trying to find a
vacant spot. In addition to the economic cost of this wasted time,
it also adds to pollution and congestion on the roads.
“Our unique smart system uses machine vision to establish
whether each space is free or occupied with no need for expensive
infrastructure,” said Dipak Raval, a commercial director at
Cambridge Consultants. “It’s an excellent example of how machine
vision can provide a cost-effective way of monitoring occupancy
over a wide area, since the camera is able to ‘see’ multiple
bays.
“Our deep expertise in algorithm development has enabled us to
ensure the technology works in a variety of lighting conditions and
can cope with different sizes of cars, trucks and motorcycles
without giving misleading results if pedestrians are standing in a
parking space, for example, or shopping trolleys are left
behind.”
Cambridge Consultants develops breakthrough products,
creates and licenses intellectual property, and provides business
consultancy in technology-critical issues for clients worldwide.
For more than 50 years, the company has been helping its clients
turn business opportunities into commercial successes, whether they
are launching first-to-market products, entering new markets or
expanding existing markets through the introduction of new
technologies. With a team of more than 550 staff, including
engineers, scientists, mathematicians and designers, in offices in
Cambridge (UK), Boston (USA) and Singapore, Cambridge Consultants
offers solutions across a diverse range of industries including
medical technology, industrial and consumer products, digital
health, energy and wireless communications. For more information,
visit: www.CambridgeConsultants.com.
Cambridge Consultants is part of Altran, a global leader in
innovation and high-tech engineering consulting which offers its
clients a new way to innovate. The Group develops with, or for, its
clients the products and services of tomorrow. Altran works along
with its clients on every link in the value chain of their project,
from conception to industrialisation. With a staff of nearly 26,000
employees in more than 20 countries, the Group generated revenues
of €1.945bn in 2015. For more information, visit:
www.altran.com.
Analog Devices (NASDAQ: ADI) designs and manufactures
semiconductor products and solutions. We enable our customers to
interpret the world around us by intelligently bridging the
physical and digital with unmatched technologies that sense,
measure and connect. Visit http://www.analog.com.
Blackfin is a registered trademark of Analog Devices, Inc.
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Analog Devices, Inc.Mike DelRossi,
781-937-1429michael.delrossi@analog.comorLinda Kincaid,
781-937-1472linda.kincaid@analog.com
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