Cloud Parc is debuting its smart parking camera solutions in the Entrepreneurial Village, highlighting its ability to automatically detect unused parking spaces through visual analysis. Each LPR camera can monitor up to 10 spaces while the company’s Sky camera can monitor an entire city block. According to Kerrian Bard Fournier, COO, Cloud Parc
September 10, 2014
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7866 Cloud Parc is debuting its smart parking camera solutions in the Entrepreneurial Village, highlighting its ability to automatically detect unused parking spaces through visual analysis. Each LPR camera can monitor up to 10 spaces while the company’s Sky camera can monitor an entire city block. According to Kerrian Bard Fournier, COO, Cloud Parc, the visual analysis technology can also be used for other ITS applications, including traffic management and tolling. The company is looking for potential partners who can participate in a beta program next year.
Early bird registrations are open for the 17th ITS Asia Pacific Forum 2020 with the opportunity of saving up to $AUS200 (£109).
ITS Australia says the forum, whose theme is ‘ITS Innovation Creating Liveable Communities’, “will demonstrate Australia’s new initiatives and adapted learnings from the advances of our neighbouring megacities”. Key topics will include Mobility as a Service, autonomous vehicles, data analytics and network development.
The event will take place at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibit
Road authorities around the world use Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) as their ITS solution to managing weather’s impact on the roadways. These networks of roadside weather stations have become large networks with a high cost to maintain. But as Vaisala’s Jon Tarleton, senior marketing manager and meteorologist, points out,
Finland-headquartered Noptel is highlighting its Speeder X1 and CMP52 laser distance measurement sensors, developed for traffic control and law enforcement applications.
The Speeder X1 laser radar exploits a dual laser transmitter, providing overlapping vehicle profile analysis for precise vehicle speed measurement, as well as for vehicle height and length determination. Meanwhile, the accurate and reliable CMP52 single beam laser radar is designed for a wide variety of traffic control and law enforcement
Columbus, Ohio has been named City of the Year in the Smart Cities Dive website’s awards for its work on transit and electrification.
The US city won the US Department of Transportation’s inaugural Smart City Challenge two years ago – and is rolling out a variety of smart city-related programmes.
Smart Cities Dive said the city’s “biggest area of progress this year” has been its increased reliance on electric vehicles (EVs), including in its bus fleet and other government vehicles.
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