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Fresh off a smart lighting project in which it relies in part on intelligence sent by remote IBM Watson computers, controls company Echelon is now also beefing up its ability to think on its own, as it has installed a trial roadway LED lighting system in Spokane that uses onsite intelligent cameras to detect traffic patterns and adjust illumination accordingly, without tapping remote information.
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Spokane marks the first deployment for a patent-pending system that Echelon calls InSight Cognitive Vision, which it is marketing as an industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology to support smart city and smart campus applications such as traffic-adaptive lighting.
“With InSight, traffic data is collected and processed at the edge of the network instead of on a central server,” Echelon said in a press release.
Using a combination of cameras equipped with algorithms, InSight makes rapid decisions on how best to alter lighting depending on variables such as traffic flow. Santa Clara, CA-based Echelon describes the technology as “cognitive vision.” Other vendors such as Sensity Systems use the phrase “computer vision.”
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