S.M.A.R.T or Autonomous Cars & S.M.A.R.T Parking - The Future Is Here

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Technologies are changing paradigms, dimensions on facilitating and bring the desired convenience to an avid consumer in their daily lives. An advanced version of transportation is the S.M.A.R.T Driverless Vehicles, once considered impossible to accomplish, will soon become an innate possibility. S.M.A.R.T Driverless Vehicles will see the light of the day due to untiring efforts of innovation companies like Tesla, Intel, Google pushing up their innovation quotients, setting up research & development units/ manufacturing cohorts to design, un-design & redesign such advanced beauties of technology.

Driverless cars strive to work on three key parameters/ technologies:

Sensors: While sensors have been in use for a while now in the field of transportation, its advanced features like blind spot monitoring, assistance in lane keeping, collision warning are actively being used in partially automated cars, Super advanced features like ultra-sonics, radar technologies, camera inputs can steer, safely drive and navigate the car in any desired direction.

Maps & Connectivity: Geo-positioning Satellites, Maps, Effective Road & Telecom Connectivity are key propellers in the future of technology, Not only these upgraded advancements provide insights but also provide algorithms that support directional use such as when to apply brakes/ avoid accidents/ when to change lanes effortlessly without causing self/ other drivers harm. Advanced GPS / VPS (in future) will improvise and more accurate by plugging vital breakthroughs in the 3D Mappings – exciting times are in store in this space too

Algorithms: Algorithms in a Software capture, record, analyze data recovered from sensors/tools to make accurate decisions on when to start driving, use steering when to brake when to increase speed when to apply brakes, when to use indicators and when to use maps enabled route guidance. While a lot of technological breakthroughs have happened in this space, undoubtedly, the most difficult and complex component is to match Human Intelligence with artificial intelligence enabled algorithm handling multiple tasks across all situations. For in-depth introspection for this, a laser scanner also is known as (Light Detection & Ranging system is predominantly used, the system sends out light bugs that reverb reflection off the objects processing the three-dimensional map of the surroundings includes shape, size & data gathered across the data curated from the circumstances of surroundings.

S.M.A.R.T PARKING

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Rising Population & an aggressive urban infrastructural growth is a root cause for parking spaces to shrink creating a size-able problem in urban planning, SMART PARKING shall be able to address the problem and provide a long-term viable solution in the space-crunched urban areas. The technology facilitates efficient management of parking lots, bridges lacunae reducing the time spent in search of parking spaces, integrating flexible online /mobile payment options also ben and making it easier for consumers.

Smart parking leverages IoT to connect devices using sensors, analyzing data that is collected to monitor available parking spots. This means the different components /sensors of parking can ‘talk’ to each other, exchanging information that can be used by parking lot operators, city administration, as well as motorists.

Importance of Smart Park: Smart Parks can decongest a lot of unwarranted traffic from the roads, having said that, they also help in saving from higher fuel emissions, road accidents to unalerted driving causing congestion/ ill warranted heartburn. IOT enabled devices to communicate with each other and process real-time data about parking spaces.

To recapitulate, Technology evolution and advancements would make even autonomous driverless a reality soon – Efforts of Global Corporate Giants and Indian behemoths are slowly but consistently bearing fruit, which shall see the light of the day very soon.

Driverless cars will be a much-needed solution to combat human errors causing numerous accidents, Smart Parking is an extension to the driverless vehicles, its adoption especially in countries like India, shall curb by an ever-increasing number of vehicles, notwithstanding a non available format/inefficient use on parking spaces has caused a meteoric rise to a lot of problems. Mass adoption of the concept is the need of the hour, this must be promoted extensively through Public-Private partnerships, curating a viable, less polluted and a safe future.