Our latest sensor range is here
We are pleased to announce the arrival of our latest sensor range that combines two sensors, either Ultrasonic or LiDAR with Camera technology.
For over a decade, Park Agility have championed individual bay sensors/indicator lights as the superior solution for both accuracy and customer experience. Now, we are pleased to announce the arrival of our latest sensor range that combines two sensors, either Ultrasonic or LiDAR with Camera technology.
We have been operating this new solution in a live site for over six months now, and the results are excellent in terms of customer feedback, bay occupation accuracy, overall system performance and licence plate recognition accuracy.
Whilst covering multiple bays with one camera may seem to be an efficiency, there can be some serious drawbacks to this kind of set up:
The camera must capture a wider area (10m x 3m) leading to either;
the need to lower the resolution of images making them less clear and readable, or
risk performance impacts with capture of high-resolution images, that flood the network with large files.
Larger images also require more processing power, hence, driving up costs in thesolution’s back end.
If a camera sensor malfunctions, multiple bays (4 to 6) may go unmonitored, causing a larger disruption and more significant loss in accuracy.
Wide-area coverage can lead to other difficulties in bay occupation detection, for example occlusion where a larger vehicle obscures or partially blocks a smaller vehicle.
By comparison, Park Agility’s latest Sensor solution offers:
A dedicated camera ensuring clear and unobstructed views of the single parking space that it is monitoring. Since the camera is focused on a smaller area, it can capture higher-resolution images of the target area, making it easier to identify vehicle details.
The image/file size is small, reducing the load on the network and back-end server to process the images in real time.
Overall system performance is excellent with indicator lights changing status within 2-3 seconds and wayfinding signs updating within 10 seconds, consistently at peak usage periods which is when other solutions seem to underperform.
Plate recognition accuracy has been well above the 99.5% range, as measured across many thousands of transactions and their images.
Cameras can be optimized for specific lighting conditions in each bay.
Additional AI smarts have been incorporated, to erase the faces of people that may be captured in images, reducing privacy concerns and supporting compliance with the highest standards of data and privacy protection laws.
Unlike multi-bay cameras where an entire section might be lost, if one camera fails, it only affects a single bay.
Like to know more? For technical specifications and site-specific advice, get in touch with our team today.
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