Like other industries in the world, due to local health and safety and occupancy restrictions, the use of parking facilities in cities and suburbs has changed greatly in the past year, and the patience of parking operation management has also been tested. As the whole industry hopes to recover from the level of medical and health events, it also hopes to transition from traditional analog and internal hosting operations to solutions that digitize parking operations and provide a non-contact experience.

Investment in digital tools, such as platforms using computer vision technology, is a solution that can help accelerate digitization by better managing the occupancy level of parking lots, eliminating paper ticket systems, parking barriers and other traditional physical elements of commercial parking. The deployment of smart cameras has attracted a particular field, which can perform functions from license plate recognition to traffic flow detection and speed, as well as many other practical applications. These functions are particularly useful in ground parking and parking structures in the environment of large retail or enterprise parking lots such as airports and sports venues.

Peter Park, a Munich based parking management solution software developer, helps further improve security and automation by connecting different digital services (such as payment applications, electronic toll collection systems and navigation providers), thus helping many parking operations begin to migrate to more complex technologies. The company operates at more than 50 different sites in Germany and records more than 25000 transactions a day. Peter park's cloud based products are based on the use of license plate recognition technology (ANPR), which usually requires special license plate recognition cameras to identify specific vehicles, detect dwell time and integrate with online payment system to realize full digital parking experience.

Smart cameras provide flexibility in camera selection and functionalityThe company is replacing the LPR camera with a new smart camera with a powerful microprocessor to promote intelligent vehicle analysis through multiple video analysis applications on the camera. Based on the open Internet of things platform of security and Internet of things, these cameras can be equipped and flexibly reconfigured with various applications, including license plate recognition, analysis to detect smoke, fire, ice and spills or other internal hazards, analysis of parking environment and other immediately installable applications, which meet the most urgent parking management needs."We can not only use the best application for computer vision tasks, but also select and combine the best camera types from different suppliers for each setting, making full use of various camera functions, such as zoom control, for example," this is an example.

Intelligent vehicle routing and reduced hardware maintenance costs

Reducing or eliminating parking doors and ticketing machines can have a positive impact on the staffing level in parking management, and can greatly reduce the hardware purchase and maintenance costs of parking doors and ticketing equipment. In addition, cameras equipped with parking management applications can analyze the queue of vehicles waiting to enter the facility and pair them with available space, or identify when a specific parking area is full, To help guide the traffic flow. They can also help control the traffic flow during peak hours to prevent congestion and long waiting at the exit, or identify the vehicles of VIP or season ticket holders at the event site and guide them to the appropriate parking lot accordingly.

Parking lot monitoring and event detectionSmart cameras can also help managers and provide valuable security and visitor management functions. Crowd detection analysis can detect the formation of crowds before the stadium parking lot is upgraded to a post game quarrel, while count analysis can detect the number of passengers in each vehicle entering the parking lot, so as to better determine the expected attendance of events or competitions. Location of enterprise offices Daily occupancy level. The analysis can also detect personnel holding weapons and selectively transmit relevant images to help remote operators or field security personnel assess and resolve the situation.Editing: JQ