NORWOOD, Mass. -- (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.
“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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Contacts:
Analog Devices, Inc.
Mike DelRossi, 781-937-1429
michael.delrossi@analog.com
or
Linda
Kincaid, 781-937-1472
linda.kincaid@analog.com
Source: Analog Devices, Inc.
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