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Parquery’s first solution provides real-time parking guidance to an available parking spot. Customers currently request additional solutions such as bus parking, truck parking, boat parking, train parking, plane parking, seat occupancy, people counting and warehouse management. After four years of technical work, Parquery’s object detection pipeline is now robust, scalable and 80%-automatised: we can therefore afford to answer these requests withoutlosingfocus
Parquery sells a service to customers in a niche: large outdoor car park managers, e.g. Airports, Real Estate, Retail, Leisure Parks, Convention Centers, Universities, Hospitals, Employee Car Parks, Cities,…
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Benefits
Parquery’s end-customers are parking and facility managers, who mostly have the following needs ➢ They wish to display available parking spots to their customers (e.g. retail, airports, corporateparkinglots,etc.) ➢ Theywouldliketoidentifyifavehiclestayslongerthanauthorized(longerthanthe maximumduration,longerthanwhattheypaidfor,isanelectricvehicleparkedbut not charging?,etc.). ➢ They wish tounderstandtheusageof their parking area (e.g. dodrivers indeed use all the parkingarea?when?,etc.)
Innovation
On the market today, the main techniques to monitor space occupancyare: 1. electromagnetic and or infra-red ground-embedded sensors, which can be expensive, inaccurate and require regularmaintenance, 2. video monitoring via cameras with onboard computers and dedicated algorithms to analyse occupancy. These cameras are expensive to install andoperate.
On the contrary,Parquery: a. Analyses any image from any already-installed camera: no additional infrastructure is required. b. Provides reliable results (99% accuracy) in all weather conditions. Furthermore, all results are verifiable bycustomers. c. Developed a built-in-house object detection technology which can be deployed locally or on cloud servers, as preferred bycustomers. d. Built a robust technology which can detect any object via very low resolution images: more than 300 spaces can be monitored on only one image forinstance. e. Has developed a very flexible technology, which can be used to detect any object or silhouette, and create solutions such as people counting in halls or public transport, traffic management orwarehouse stock optimization forinstance.
SolvingProblems
Parqueryprovidesparkingmanagerswithreal-timeresultstothefollowingquestions: ➢ Where are currently available parking spots? Drivers can be guided to an
available
parking spot on a Smartphone App or on dynamic guidance panels. Parquery’s APIcanalso beeasilyintegratedintoanexistingSmartphoneApp. ➢ How long is each vehicle currently parked for? Are vehicles parked more than 30min?2h? aftertheclosingtime? ➢ Are reserved parking spots (trucks, disabled, electric vehicles, taxis,...) currently used? ➢ Are vehicles currently wrongly parked (in front of emergency exits, on delivery areas,…)? Alertscanbesenttoparkingmanagers. ➢ Whichvehicletypeiscurrentlyparked?truck,van,car,motorcycle?
Parqueryalsoprovidesparkingmanagerswithstructuredanalyticsandstatisticson: ➢ What is the general parking occupancy of each parking zone? How many parkingspots areused?Howoften?Whenarepeakhours? ➢ How long do customers and visitors stay parked? 5min? 20min? 2h? all day? How longdocustomersparkonaverage? ➢ Whichcarparkzonesaremoreoftenused?closetothenearbyshops?closerto thecity centre? ➢ Aretherebottlenecks/trafficjams?Wherearetheyprincipally?
All analytics can be averaged on any time period (every hour, every day, every week, …) and of any size (only parking spots reserved (handicapped, electric vehicles, ...), only delivery areas, only parking closetothe entrance, allparkingspots nexttothe neighbour shop,…)