DFS shifts smart camera paradigm

First published in the Intertraffic Innovations Guide - April 15, 2020

Data from skyDataFromSky (DFS) has announced Flow, a completely new solution that allows any camera feed to be converted into a valuable data source effortlessly, with an overwhelming number of applications, such as traffic monitoring, people counting, adaptive traffic lights, parking. Flow, a visual programming paradigm is unprecedented in the field and combined with DFS’ proprietary traffic AI and real-time capabilities it brings disruptive change to the world of smart city sensors.

“Flow is a result of continuous development of our award-winning AI traffic analytics engine and feedback from our industrial and research customers,” says Lenka Šedivá, project manager. “We were constantly dealing with numerous requests to tailor our deep traffic AI to specific scenarios. So we created a powerful real-time platform that can cater for countless applications – with the customer being able to design any smart sensor easily. And reconfigure it whenever needed, without any further investments.”

Flow is based on DataFromSky’s widely acclaimed analysis core that completely redefined traffic analytics in 2013. It has been used for more than 700 large-scale studies since then by leading engineering companies and research partners. DFS enabled unique projects such as the recent Open Traffic dataset based on 10 drones monitoring traffic simultaneously for several consecutive days.

“Compared to the traditional counting methods for traffic surveys, the AI-based approach is orders of magnitude more efficient and provides data of incomparable breadth and quality,” says Lenka Šedivá. “Flow is compatible with any camera feed – even the existing ones – avoiding investment in new technology acquisition and installation. We can use existing camera networks and turn them into cooperative sensors of the AI cities of tomorrow.”

Flow has already been incorporated into AI cameras (SAST ecosystem by Bosch), and DataFromSky’s own products – Traffic Embedded, Real-time monitoring drone and Flow Enterprise.

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