Edge-computing: Delta's SmartPASS Solution Improves Parking Lot Management Efficiency

With the development of IoT technology, more powerful data processing technologies are needed to convert large scale data from various IoT devices. Take buildings for example, data such as building equipment information, environment detection status, and video surveillance can be used as the basis for making a building management and control strategy. In the IoT era, how to analyze, process and store large amounts of building information to meet users' safety, comfort and convenience needs has become the key to determining the right building management and control solutions.

Driven by the development of smart buildings, the trend for surveillance is evolving. To ensure the security of people and assets inside and outside of buildings, various surveillance management solutions and applications have emerged in response to the demands from different zones and internal enterprise systems, such as parking lot management systems, access control systems, perimeter management, and others. With diverse security applications, the needs of cross-field and cross-system surveillance integration are increasing. As a result, video analysis technology is improving to fulfill people's expectations for smart surveillance.

For an actual office building example, an IP camera installed at the entrance of the parking lot immediately verifies if visitors are registered using the license plate recognition system. The access control system can then open the gate and send notifications to the relevant reception. In the reserved meeting room, the lighting, air conditioning and projector are turned on automatically, to achieve the full integration of surveillance and building automation applications.

To achieve smart building management as per the above scenario, enterprises need a smart surveillance platform to effectively integrate IP cameras, edge computing hosts with video analysis software, and servers with internal systems such as attendance systems and conference room reservation systems..

In view of the need for cross-system and cross-field surveillance integration, Delta's SmartPASS solution provides a complete integrated platform that can display real-time video surveillance collected by cameras in various zones to achieve global perimeter management, access control management, and industrial security monitoring. This platform can also be equipped with a variety of surveillance application software, such as face recognition and license plate recognition, and further integrate the company's internal attendance system, conference room management system, and others, to ensure user safety and improve building management efficiency.

Delta's parking lot management solution provides a license plate recognition range that is wider than the industry average. It improves not only the flexibility and convenience of installation, but also provides continuous machine learning. As the amount of data increases, the investigation rate and accuracy rate improves. In addition, it supports a dynamic license plate recognition feature. Visitors can pass directly through the gate without the need for stopping their cars for license plate verification, reducing waiting time and increasing user satisfaction. The SmartPASS platform provides real-time equipment status tracking and maintenance alerts, saving on labor and maintenance costs for checking equipment status onsite.

Through the "centralized management and decentralized control" of Delta's SmartPASS platform, high-resolution video recorded by the network cameras installed in each zone can be transmitted to the edge-computing host for analysis. The analysis results immediately trigger the operation of related equipment and send notifications. In addition to reducing manpower management costs, decentralized control also further reduces security vulnerabilities caused by the interruption and delay of data transmission that occurs in past centralized control. Big data analysis and the storage of videos can be processed by the host for central management. Detailed video analysis can be used to make security management and control strategies and become the basis for management and control of the front-end edge computing host. Through machine learning, smart surveillance becomes a closer fit with the users' practices.

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