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Intelligent smart city upgrades Adding extra capabilities to existing roadside infrastructure is a powerful way to roll out smart city solutions at an affordable price Words | Neil Dillon, MAV Systems, UK
MAV Systems predicts that automatic license plate recognition (ALPR – also known as ANPR) cameras will become the logical hub for a growing range of add-on environmental and analytic sensors that will revolutionize smart city deployments worldwide. The emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is often associated with smart cities because it offers a massive array of modular sensors and communications devices. However, these devices are often proprietary and require their own communications channels and back-office
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tools. They are also often logging devices with bulk upload of data rather than real-time analysis. Unification of these additional technologies, linked to an intelligent ALPR camera, not only makes sense financially by avoiding duplication of bearers, but also creates a depth of information that will improve the analytic capabilities of back-office systems.
Hardware add-ons MAV Systems is actively involved in using high-quality calibrated IoT devices to feed
information into smart city solutions with an extensive range of add-ons for its IQ ALPR camera range, to take the IQ to a higher intelligence level. The IQ range provides edge-based analysis of multiple subsystems and sensors such as speed, pollution monitoring and weigh-in-motion (WIM) inputs that are associated with passing vehicles. This extra functionality is underpinned by the quality and performance of the IQ range and ensures that MAV’s partners are provided with the latest technology required to extend
