Cambridge Consultants unveils smart car park

The self-taught and low-cost car park, created by Cambridge Consultants, recognises cars and how those cars appear in parking spaces. The system aptly named Goldeneye, can do this both in the day and night as well as a variety of lighting and weather conditions, including the recent severe snow in the UK, without expensive physical infrastructure. Goldeneye uses a machine vision and deep learning solution developed entirely at Cambridge Consultants, along with the existing security camera and networking infrastructure on-site, to consistently monitor the availability of parking bays. Goldeneye uses 12 cameras to oversee 430 parking spaces and with digital signs at the entrance to the site, the system alerts a 500-strong workforce and visitors to where they can quickly find a parking space. Traditional parking monitoring solutions use sensors for each individual parking space, which can be expensive to maintain and often the business case to justify a large investment in bay sensors does not exist.