Goldeneye AI system promises end to car park chaos

Now Cambridge Consultants has developed a deep learning and machine vision system that can not only tell you how many spaces are left, but where in the car park you can find them. The AI system, dubbed Goldeneye, uses information from 12 security cameras to continuously monitor the availability of parking bays, in what the company dubs the world’s smartest car park.

Goldeneye was trained on footage of the car park in different lighting and weather conditions, day and night, teaching itself to recognise vehicles and both empty and occupied parking bays. Existing car park monitoring systems use sensors for each space, which can be expensive to install and maintain, according to Thomas Carmody, head of transport and infrastructure at Cambridge Consultants.

“Our approach was to take the existing camera feed coming from security cameras, and put it into a deep learning system to monitor individual bays, which is a much more cost-effective way to manage parking,” he said.