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5: DATA AS A SERVICE FOR INTERNET OF THINGS
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DATA AS A SERVICE FOR INTERNET OF THINGS
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The future of Data delivery in MaaS
A modern hub should be far more than a delivery service consolidating data for a single use. Today’s generation of data hubs should aim to deliver… simply more!
Our new generation of data delivery services form a connected network of data hubs featuring rich analytical tools and multi-channel streams. They are built on secure and proven cloud infrastructure that is scalable to billions of devices and trillions of messages, and brilliantly designed to seamlessly bring together noisy and fragmented data.
The first of these data hubs is the all-in-one Open Parking Platform
The Open Parking Platform receives and visually presents real-time data from the Internet of Things (IoT) connected to all digital parking sources, such as Pay & Display machines, Pay on Foot machines, Parking Permit Systems, bay sensors, cashless apps and more.
How does the Open Parking Platform work? Our cloud-based service unites data management and rich analytics to make noisy, fragmented data scalable to billions of devices and trillions of messages. But, what does that mean? The platform encourages communication between multiple ‘things’ in real time. This is all thanks to an easy-to-use portal in which users can customise their experience and reporting tools to quickly become the go-to resource for operational data.
The platform, whilst providing qualitative data in varying degrees of frequency and complexity, is also seamlessly presented in a user friendly and easy to navigate user interface (UI). Simply stated, our visualisation involves presenting your fragmented data in such a way that users can understand the data, as well as its underlying relationships, through IoT.
How do we keep your data secure? We are continually driving innovation with our solutions that are designed for continuous platform evolution. However, we are aware that many people are apprehensive about “big data” because of concerns over possible data breaches. Security is not something we take lightly, which is why the Open Parking Platform is built to use the minimal amount of data required to provide the insights you need. The key security features of the Open Parking Platform:
4 Will not hold private customer data
4 Will not store or process payment card information
4 End users will always remain with the payment vendor
The Open Parking Platform is built from the ground up on a secure and proven global cloud infrastructure that allows vendors to safely bring together high-level analytical and statistical information.
The platform acts as a basis for a new digital ecosystem, which enhances vendor-to-vendor collaboration - both quantitatively and qualitatively - to transform parking management and put the customer right at the heart of the service.
What about stakeholder reporting? As we have touched on above, the Open Parking Platform enables individual users and groups to acquire custom access permissions and report functions adapted to their job role. We understand that human cognition plays a major part in a user’s relationship with data. A person’s attention, memory, learning, reasoning, production/understanding of language, problem-solving and
decision-making all play a key role in their relationship with data. Therefore, we make it easy for every user to define their dashboard in a way that works for them. Customisation tools called “widgets” allow a user to pick and choose the visualisations that are relevant to them/their role.
What if you have multiple suppliers offering the same data set?
Introducing the naa platform (notanotherapp) notanotherapp (“naa”) is a direct companion to the Open Parking Platform and enables motorists to pay for their parking anywhere using their preferred app, instead of having to use multiple apps in different locations. This creates a powerful incentive for app developers to innovate their services, because the customer experience becomes the key performance indicator. With the naa two-way communication and seamless integration into multiple MaaS sites, fragmentation becomes collaboration.
Traditionally, the parking sector has been fragmented and segregated, which has deterred innovation. The naa system resolves this by enabling multiple vendors to communicate more effectively, empowering them to make their parking management more customer-centric. naa empowers motorists to initiate effective change by choosing the vendor that best suits their requirements.
We all know how emotive parking is. The motorist parking experience should be forgettable, but it isn’t. The motorist should be able to pull into the location and use their preferred payment method and get on with their day. But they can’t - why?
For many years, Solutionlabs has been driving towards an empathetic approach to its own innovation. We believe there is greater universal success to be had from changing traditional thought processes.
Traditionally a company or brand will take an idea, build a commercial product or service, and then a user experience results, positive or negative. We strategically place the user and their experiences first. This provides a deeper understanding of how you can deliver your products and services. This ethical and empathetic approach to our innovation means that Solutionlabs and naa aspire to see beyond their own world view. We aspire to deliver a forgettable parking experience.
Allowing motorists to make informed decisions relating to their journey At its very core this is what naa is designed to do: Give the customer the power to make informed decisions and initiate effective change. Why dictate to a customer which cashless app provider they should use? Instead, give customers the power to make informed decisions and let their user experience drive the “most popular” payment service forward. Through this empathetic approach you allow the motorists to drive innovation from the providers.
The naa system is not only integrating with payment systems and pre-booking software providers, but travel management applications, automotive technology, EV charging services and more.
Data is important. But what will you do with it?
Introducing Input360 Applying data learning methodology to stored data is often a difficult exercise. The speed and complexity of machine learning methodologies means keeping up with new techniques, and can be difficult even for data scientists. Our latest software evolution, Input360, unites rich analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence by applying a number of robust and long-standing methodologies. Input360 pulls stored and live data from a number of areas including, but not limited to, its sister products: the Open Parking Platform and notanotherapp.
Input360’s universal data is supported by our unparalleled cloud infrastructure - secure, proven and scalable to support any network size.
Use your data to inspire effective change. Support new economical and environment policies. Ensure your future readiness. As with all our platforms, you can unlock the power of your data with interactive dashboards and reporting to inspire smarter economical and environmental decisions.
Through our data learning methodology, Input360 aims to provide a real-time interpretation of the data you’re seeing. It provides you with learnt predictive models that will build the basis for all future policy changes and environmental impact reporting. Bringing together data from across all MaaS networks, as well as global stat providers, the Input360 engine will give you realtime insight into proposed changes across your network.
The Input360 team will work closely with you to create custom models and reporting workflows to ensure you are maximising your data potential. n
Duane Hodges-Stubbs, Technical Director, Solution Labs
Basemap have the most detailed speed limit and average speed data available on the market.
The speed limit is attached to the road network and shows the speed limit on all GB roads.
The average speed that is used and trusted by Highways Analysts can either be purchased based on 6 time/day periods, or can be customised for a specific project, with dates, days, vehicle types and area adjusted to meet a userʼs needs. This is very popular for looking at journey time analysis on key routes.
These datasets can be used to:
l Calculate congestion or where traffic is flowing freely at specific times of day l Identify where people are speeding l View where restrictions are in place, for example outside schools l Accurate and immediate drive-time analysis l Plan emergency response routes in command and control system
Contact Lester Chine info@basemap.co.uk 01483 688 470 www.basemap.co.uk Software: The Open Parking Platform
The Open Parking Platform (OPP) provides a data hub that receives and visually presents realtime data from all digital parking sources, such as: Pay & Display Machines, Pay On Foot Machines, Parking Permit Systems, Bay Sensors, Bay Monitoring, Notice Processing Systems, Multi-Vendor Cashless App Providers, Digital Transport Management Systems and Camerabased monitoring systems.
The Open Parking Platform encourages communication between multiple ʻthingsʼ in realtime. The OPP is the only cloud-based service that brings together data management and rich analytics in an easy-to-use platform designed for noisy and fragmented data. The OPP is built on a secure and proven cloud infrastructure and is scalable to billions of devices and trillions of messages.
The rich analytical tools provided by the OPP allow users to bring together an omni-channel experience inside an easy-to-navigate user portal. For stakeholder reporting, each user/user group has custom access permissions and has the ability to build custom report functions specific to their job / role. The OPP offers hosted reporting functions as well as an open API for third party integration.
The OPP aims to deliver Data as a Service for IoT.
Contact Tim Pryor info@solutionlabs.co.uk 0333 240 1062 www.openparkingplatform.co.uk
