From the beginning, Parquery has set itself apart from the competition with the ability to upgrade existing cameras into multi-purpose parking sensors and flexible software deployment. Our software works with any IP camera of any manufacturer and can run on our cloud servers, partner or client servers (both in the cloud and local), or edge computing on-site near the camera.
We have extended our offerings with a Parquery parking app for Axis cameras.
This means that Parquery's software can now be installed on the camera itself, similar to installing an app on a smartphone. It analyzes the images within; thus, the images remain on the camera. Only anonymous numerical and analytical data leave the camera and are transferred over the network and stored on a server.
A self-contained optical parking sensor that delivers anonymous occupancy data for up to 300 spots without storing or transmitting images.
Designed in-house by Axis, the 8th generation ARTPEC system-on-chip (SoC) is Axis’ most advanced chipset. It is specifically designed for IP cameras and deep-learning analytics on the edge (i.e. on-site, in the camera).
The Parking app lets you leverage the power of Parquery's Artificial Intelligence (AI) directly on the camera. It takes full advantage of the chip to process images in-camera with AI and extract parking usage.
Parquery can be embedded on various Axis cameras with ARTPEC-8 chips.
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When the AI analyzes a new unknown image, it draws on previously learned knowledge. Axis uses a dedicated AI accelerator to make these inferences, which delivers tremendous performance compared to a traditional CPU (processor). Therefore, one of the main challenges in the app development was to adapt the Parquery AI to this special chip in order to harness its full power.
With edge computing, data is processed where it is generated, i.e., in or near the camera. This has several advantages:
The setup is straightforward: a camera with an internet connection and a server to aggregate the data.
The results can be seen on the dashboard or integrated via the API, e.g. in display panels.
Results are sent to a local or cloud server which aggregates and stores the anonymous numerical data and displays it in an interactive dashboard. Get access to in-depth parking analytics and understand the usage of the parking lot.
What’s needed
Once you have an Axis camera with ARTPEC-8, Parquery will send you the app to install on the camera. Installing is as easy as adding an app to a smartphone with Axis browser-based camera management software.
The camera can then be installed on-site, and Parquery will calibrate the app for you. As soon as the fine-tuning for your parking lot is done, the results are accessible on the interactive dashboard.
On the camera’s configuration interface, installing the Parquery Parking App is as easy as installing a smartphone app
Upgrade and retrofit any camera of any manufacturer with Parquery on-the-edge, without an ARTPEC-8 chip: A powerful tiny computer – a so-called edge device – can be mounted near the camera, e.g. a Raspberry Pi or an NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX. This way you can use the power of distributed image processing for any camera.
Raspberry Pi 4, and NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX - energy-efficient, compact machines for edge computing
Contact Parquery; we will be on your side throughout.
To get started, our experts will assist you in determining how many cameras are needed, which camera model to choose, and where to install the cameras with 3D modeling of the parking area.
The camera analyzes the images and deletes them once processed. Thus, no image or video data leaves the camera unless requested.
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