Precision has never been more important for garages that are starting to engage in these high-value transactions. That’s why Artificial Intelligence (AI) is so essential to the acceleration of digital transformation in industries like parking.
Eve Machol is the director of airport and transportation industry transformation for the US state and local government market at Microsoft. She specializes in real-world applications of sophisticated IoT and analytics technology, which is exactly what intrigued her about the impact FLASH is having in the parking industry. Her inspired approach to once-antiquated system is shared by so many others discovering creative use cases for emerging technologies.
“It’s going to be so amazing to think about a parking garage two years from now” Hunter Dunbar, FLASH’s AI and computer vision manager tells us. He develops FlashVision, the AI Platform that powers our LPR solution and will soon be releasing Car Counting and Car Signature products.
“The AI platform that we are building is a pipeline for data collection. We have a team of people that know how to look at that data, annotate it, build a model, test that model, deploy the model, and quickly update it,” Dunbar explains. It’s a complete solution for dynamically responding to an unpredictable environment like a parking garage.
Asset owners and operators will have unparalleled insights into the behavior of their customers – and the tools to respond in real time. For FLASH customers, that tool kit is ever expanding. Every day, a dedicated team of developers digs down into owners and operators’ greatest challenges and opportunities to develop tomorrow’s most disruptive technologies.
Dunbar sees variety in the potential applications for FLASH’s AI platform. “After every customer meeting I have,” he says, “I ask: if you could identify anything – whether it’s recognizing specific fans of a football team or golf carts or shopping cards that are in your lot – what would it be? And I can turn that model around in six weeks.”
“That’s why partners like FLASH are tremendous,” responds Machol, “because it’s not aspirational, it’s actual.”