SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
June 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Internet of Things pioneer Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:
ELON) has completed initial field tests of another new application
for its InSight Cognitive Vision System, this time validating the
ability of the intelligent camera to accurately and inexpensively
count traffic on city streets. In a deployment in Spokane, Washington, the new application
captured data that matched or exceeded the accuracy of conventional
and manual counters, day or night. The new streetlight-based system
is less expensive and easier to deploy than conventional roadway
surface-based counters, and because the system communicates over
the existing lighting network, it can be deployed on any
streetlight, not just those in intersections adjacent to traffic
control boxes.
The InSight system deployed in Spokane included an adaptive learning
capability to accommodate differences in each camera's deployment
for light levels, shadows, and reflections. "While there are many
open source computer vision algorithms available today, most
address one particular problem under a narrow set of conditions and
are not effective for reliably addressing multiple real world
issues," said Sohrab Modi, Chief
Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering,
Echelon. "We developed this cognitive AI vision technology to
enable a municipal streetlight system to host an increasingly broad
array of smart city solutions."
Traffic counting is traditionally accomplished with pneumatic
tubes temporarily laid across the roadway surface, or with
inductive loops buried in the roadway, or with microwave radar
transmitters. Echelon's new InSight application leverages
access to the Echelon Lumewave lighting control network, allowing
placement of the self-learning system on any streetlight
instead. Moving the traffic counter from the roadway surface
to a streetlight simplifies deployment, and moves the sensor into a
more versatile location. And by leveraging a city's existing
connected lighting platform, the traffic counting application based
on Echelon's InSight technology offers smart cities a lower cost
alternative in managing energy use as well as a platform to broadly
collect traffic data.
"We are encouraged by these field test results that demonstrate
that InSight provides reliable traffic flow information directly
into the street lighting process," said Adam Miles, Associate Traffic Engineer,
City of Spokane. "Over time, we
believe the aggregated traffic data we collect will enable us to
address resident and commuter needs in new ways we are just
beginning to consider."
"With the deployment of this new application, cities and
campuses can begin to see how InSight will provide the foundation
for a family of AI-based tools leveraging the omnipresence of
street lights connected with Echelon technologies," according to
Echelon Chairman and CEO Ron
Sege. "Street lights are everywhere - these tools will
take them from being simple re-implementations of 19th century
gaslights, to the basis for providing advanced 21st century
capabilities enhancing safety and quality of life for individuals
and businesses, at a lower cost than today's simple lights
alone."
About Echelon Corporation
For 25 years Echelon (NASDAQ: ELON) has pioneered the
development of open-standard networking platforms for connecting,
monitoring and controlling devices in commercial and industrial
applications. With more than 110 million devices installed
worldwide, Echelon's proven, scalable solutions host a range of
applications enabling customers to reduce energy and operational
costs, improve safety and comfort, and create efficiencies through
optimizing physical systems. Echelon is focusing today on two IoT
(Internet of Things) market areas: Creating smart cities and smart
enterprises through connected outdoor lighting systems, and
enabling device makers to bring connected products to market faster
via a range of IoT-optimized embedded systems. More information
about Echelon can be found at www.echelon.com.
Echelon, the Echelon logo, Echelon InSight, and Lumewave by
Echelon are trademarks of Echelon Corporation that may be
registered in the United States
and other countries. Other product or service names mentioned
herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
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uncertainties, the risk that Echelon's offerings by themselves or
combined with other applications or offerings do not perform as
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CONTACT:
Lucie Mann
Echelon Corp.
lmann@echelon.com
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